I think Michele Bachmann got shafted by Newsweek, that was pretty below the belt to use that picture. Tina Brown just wanted publicity for her dying magazine. Bachmann handled that question well too. Can you imagine if the same thing had happened to Sarah Palin. She would be on with Greta talking about the “lame stream media” and playing the victim, meanwhile Newsweek sales would be going through the roof.

I give Michele Bachmann credit.

What exactly was wrong with the picture? She looks the same as always.

The overweening contempt for ordinary American voters dripping from the Team Obama media mouthpieces at Newsweek is patently obvious in their grotesque smear of Congresswoman Bachmann: “The elderly, the unemployed, the exasperated, and even a few disillusioned Democrats crowd her rallies and cheer her not-going-to-take-it-anymore shtick, even as they recognize some of its inherent contradictions.” Into Newsweek’s Demented Left echo chamber, no light from the real American political world of fly-over country penetrates. This is the Newsweek that stated in 1980 that “Fringe candidate Ronald Reagan has no chance of getting a elected.” This is the Newsweek that has lost 56% of its circulation over the last 10 years.
  “Bachmann planned to vote against the debt-ceiling compromise that would ensure the arrival of her Social Security check and the military benefits owed to her sons and nephews.”
This last statement is an outright fabrication by Newsweek. The Wall St. Journal proved that Social Security payments of $50 billion/month could have been paid 100% out of the SS Trust fund with no net cash drawdown from the Treasury. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903554904576458294273264416.html?KEYWORDS=social+security+trust+fund

Nothing.  What’s wrong with this picture:

http://connect.in.com/hillary-clinton-angry/photos-scary-hillary-clinton-1020875904451.html

Clearly there is difference.

Well done , Michele .

That Tina Brown is a nasty piece of work .

The MSM executes the most immoral attacks on women.
Sad thing is, it influences the masses. I hear the brightest people saying the dumbest
things when it comes to women who break the progressive doctrine.

The MSM executes the most immoral attacks on women.
Sad thing is, it influences the masses. I hear the brightest people saying the dumbest
things when it comes to women who break the progressive doctrine.

The point is, Bachmann is an attractive person.  They could easily have chosen an attractive picture, but they didn’t.  They CHOSE to use one that made her look insane.  Why can’t you just admit it?

Clearly not the sort of response you’d get if Bachmann were truly a wild-eyed, crazy “Queen of Rage”. And that is precisely why it was so perfect. By her dismissal of Tina Brown going after her schoolyard bully style, Bachmann delivers a far more convincing rebuttal than any angry diatribe on Hannity or Glenn Beck could have been.

You mean this Tina Brown:

http://conservativebyte.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/TINA-BROWN.jpg

Tina Brown is on the losing end of this argument – when NOW defends a conservative against a liberal like Tina – well…..not only is it shocking, but it means that NOW has been getting lots of feedback about how it is supposed to represent all women, not just liberal ones.

Oh dear, Tina is going to have to apologize…will she follow the Obama game plan and point the finger of blame elsewhere?

Yeow !

Why are calling her insane? The picture is fine!

Continue to play dumb, I don’t care.  You also denied seeing Al Gore and John Kerry’s hypocrisy. 

Compare And Contrast: How Newsweek Treats Liberal Vs. Conservative Women…

http://weaselzippers.us/2011/08/09/compare-and-contrast-how-newsweek-treats-liberal-vs-conservative-women/

Nope, no bias here!

Quit calling her “crazy looking!”

You are right, but Palin has blazed this trail for all women candidates.  Sadly, a primer on what not to do.  Bachmann has been pretty smart so far in avoiding much of this kind of cheapshot. 

newsweek did a good job hiding “ole thunder thighs”

That is pretty awesome. Malkin had a couple of pretty good ones when the same game was played with her.

http://tinyurl.com/42336cf

http://tinyurl.com/3w2rv4a

Tina Brown? That bitch is crazy! No wonder they only let her play with a magazine worth a dollar.

While I am not a fan of Bachmann’s, I have even more respect for her after this answer. She obviously is an actual adult and one that knows what the real issues are. Whether or mot one agrees with her, you have to give her major credit for this.

Michele Bachmann has class, pride, & dignity. Tina Brown does not.

Bullshit she hadn’t seen it.

Bitch be crazy AND a liar.

Kind of like Obama never heard the crazy things Rev. Wright said, right Nacho!?

Yeah Palin would go batshit crazy.

Francis Schaeffer and Nancy Pearcey will scare more people than Rev Wright.

I should say would, there’s no way that Bachamnn will win the primary.

Bachmann is a bit shrill for my taste —  but it’s obvious that tina b. does everything she can to make conservative candidates look their worst.  She’s a small minded lily-liveral

You didn’t really answer.  Do you think Obama is lying?

It’s right to say that cover was sexist, cause I’ve never seen that done to a male presidential candidate.  But it shows what’s always been at the root of the media’s attacks against Bachmann, Palin, and other conservative women, which is that they’re conservative women.  Most media outlets are liberal and hate conservatives, but especially conservative women because just by existing they fly in the face of the feminist philosophy that most liberals subscribe to.  They force liberals to question their deeply held beliefs and assumptions and many have never been forced to before so they get defensive and as they say, the best defense is offense, so they attack.  Notice they never attack these women (or conservative men) on any of their policy proposals or stances on the issues, it’s always about their character, lack of substance, craziness, etc.  They know they can’t win arguments on the issues so the only other option is to make them look stupid or unstable.  I’ve disagreed with Sarah Palin quite a bit on her methods of doing things and on some of her rhetoric, but if you read her latest facebook post, there’s a whole lot of detailed proposals in it and a lot of rational thinking and common sense.  It’s not the woman the media has portrayed as unintelligent and unstable.  We’re already hearing that Obama’s campaign is planning on attacking Romney based on everything except the issues, because they know they can’t win on the issues. My question is, will the MSM defend this approach the whole way, or will they call out Obama for going from saying in 2008 we’re gonna run a positive campaign based on the issues to the 180 degree opposite?

Really?  I seem to recall a picture of Dukakis riding in a tank.

Oh, and there’s http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4LKo6Ufp5kc/TkCjqQrXzoI/AAAAAAAADI8/2gTddTXnH7c/s1600/newt%2Btime.jpg
(Time is Newsweek’s sibling).

She is very presidential.

Newsweek editor and resident big mouth (one of many on the Morning Joe Blowhard and Mika Airhead show on PMSnbc) Tina Brown, pulled another booboo. She is going to run Newsweek out of business. Oh wait, Newsweek like Time magazine and LSDnbc are all just about out of business as nobody buys, much less reads the two ouit of date rags and nobody in their right mind watches that crappy cable network PMS/LSDnbc.

I agree that Bachmann reacted perfectly. She didn’t say she hadn’t seen it. She said “We’ll have to look into it.” That means look into whether this picture is as intentionally negative as some talking heads are making it.

I say the picture is not negative. Its a nice picture. Its a good picture. She looks optimistic to me.

It is the words below the picture that are the attack.

Tina Brown’s rationalization of her cover has the legitamacy of Warren Jeffs’ defense.

Where do you come up with these wierd websites you quote from?  Any one can find what they want to make a point with if they search enough.  Get real and find a “real” website!

Fact: Dukakis put it out himself to look like he could lead the military and it backfired! Hahhahahahaha…………

Fact: Only liberals buy rag mags!

Fact:  Only conservatives watch Fox News

According to Mediaite reacting to this perfectly means lying through your teeth and acting like you’ve never seen it before.

By the way, I just paiid $21.87 for an i P a d 2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $657 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, BidsFirst.com
 

That was my first reaction, too. She hasn’t seen it? I call bullshit. If you read the Ryan Lizza profile of her in the New Yorker this week, you know that she’s quite obsessed with what the media is saying about her.

I agree that the cover made her out to be a nutcase, but as Jon Stewart points out, why use her face to make the point when her words do it so much better?

What does “We’ll have to look into it” mean to you? To me it’s just a reminder that she called for a commission to “look into” whether congressional Democrats had “pro-America or anti-America” views.

I don’t think that’s something she really wants to remind people about.

You meant that ironically, right? 

Fact: Bachmann tried to look sane and it backfired! Hahahahahahaha…..