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Palin Slams 'Sexist' Newsweek

Bloggers divided over Runner's World photo

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 17, 2009 2:04 PM CST
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(Newser) – Sarah Palin criticized Newsweek as “sexist” for using a photo from Runner’s World that shows her bare-legged in fitness gear for its cover. “The out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist and oh-so-expected by now,” Palin wrote on Facebook. “When it comes to Sarah Palin, this 'news' magazine has relished focusing on the irrelevant rather than the relevant.” Other takes:

  • Newsweek has “accomplished being biased and sexist at the same time,” agrees David Brody for the Christian Broadcasting Network. “This cover should be insulting to women politicians. Where's the sexy photo of Mitt Romney?”

  • But male politicians do get their fair share of revealing coverage, counters Steven Taylor on Poliblogger. Remember all those Barack-in-the-surf shots? Newsweek’s cover is about “selling magazines, rather than some specific manifestation of bias.”
  • "Republicans, start calling out misogyny and sexism wherever you see it," urge enraged Palin supporters writing on Hillbuzz. And "Americans, please stop buying Newsweek."

In the November 23 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, November 16): How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah? She’s Bad News for the GOP - And For Everybody Else Too.
In the November 23 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, November 16): How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah? She’s Bad News for the GOP - And For Everybody Else Too.   (PRNewsFoto/NEWSWEEK)
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krymsonkyng
Nov 19, 2009 1:48 AM CST
Reasonator, for much of our history women weren't allowed to show leg. Call this liberation.
krymsonkyng
Nov 19, 2009 1:27 AM CST
Why do people keep assuming her legs are sexy or related to sex/gender/sex? Quite an ego on this lady when you think about it. You'd think politicians would get used to showing a little leg...
hamsammichs
Nov 18, 2009 12:55 PM CST
This isn't sexist as much as it is just spiteful on Newsweek's behalf. Palin maybe dumber than hell, but boy would I give her the ol' one-two giggity goo.

 
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