Newsweek Mocks CPAC: Huckabee, Boehner as Jonas Brothers?

In a Newsweek Web exclusive, reporter Mollie Reilly mocked young conservatives attending the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington last week:

At CPAC, 19-year-olds unironically wear bowties and snap photos with their cell phones of Rep. John Boehner and former governor Mike Huckabee, as if they were prepubescent girls at a Jonas Brothers concert.

I doubt any self-respecting conservative male of 19 appreciates being compared to a prepubescent girl at a Jonas Brothers concert -- not to mention how bizarre it is to compare Huckabee and Boehner to teen idols. Is this the way Newsweek would treat college-age liberals at an Obama rally?

No, but like other media outlets, they celebrated Malia Obama asking if the "surprise" they were getting on Wednesday night of the Denver convention was meeting the Jonas Brothers (and instead it was Daddy appearing via satellite.) Was this staged? Normally cynical reporters weren't going to be cynical.