After altering photos to smear New York Times journalists, Fox & Friends featured segment criticizing Newsweek's choice of Palin photo as unflattering
SUMMARY: Fox & Friends criticized Newsweek for publishing an unaltered cover photo of Gov. Sarah Palin, three months after airing altered photos to smear New York Times journalists for an article about the "ominous trend" in Fox News' ratings.
On the October 9 edition of Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade said of the cover photo of Gov. Sarah Palin, which appeared on the October 13 edition of Newsweek, "You know that I thought for a story, there was a reason why they sucked half her face in, there was a reason why they closed up on her eye, but it has nothing to do with the story at all. ... But don't you want to sell magazines? Why would they put an unattractive shot of an attractive person?" Later in the segment, Greg Gutfeld, host of Fox News' Red Eye, said: "But the rest of the world gets airbrushed. She doesn't get a break?" Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin added: "I don't think there's anything these mainstream photographers can do to make Sarah Palin look awful. She is a gorgeous woman, there's nothing they can do about it, and this is why the left is so deranged that they resorted to Photoshopping her in bikini pictures."
Left unmentioned during the Fox & Friends discussion of the Newsweek cover photo was the fact that the July 2 edition of Fox & Friends featured photos of New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe that appeared to have been digitally altered, during a segment in which co-host Steve Doocy claimed that Steinberg's June 28 article on the "ominous trend" in Fox News' ratings was a "hit piece." Specifically, in the photos Fox & Friends aired, the Times journalists' teeth had been yellowed, their facial features exaggerated, and Reddicliffe's hairline receded. Fox News gave no indication that the photos had been altered at the time.
Also during the October 9 segment, Gutfeld aired the following Reuters photo:
Then, as Think Progress has noted, Gutfeld asserted, "Now if this was [Sen.] Hillary Clinton, you wouldn't be able to see the guy's face. That's a fact." After the Fox & Friends hosts expressed their disapproval of his statement, Gutfeld added, "I couldn't resist it. I couldn't resist it."
From the October 9 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
CARLSON: All right, check out this photo here, and check out the guy. Does the picture offend you? Those legs are Governor Sarah Palin's, taken at a campaign event.
DOOCY: That's right, by a Reuters photographer, and now it's splayed all over a number of U.S. newspapers. Let's talk about whether or not this is appropriate with Michelle Malkin, and we've got the Red Eye guy, Greg Gutfeld, as well. Sarah, NewsBusters says -- the headline on this today is "Indecent photograph?" Question mark. Is it indecent? Is it appropriate?
MALKIN: I think it's more cliché than anything else, Steve. I've seen about two dozen of these shots now. OK, we get it, she's got great legs and great shoes. Move on. Take a picture of her elbow or something else.
GUTFELD: Can we show that picture real quick again, of the legs? Now, if this was Hillary Clinton, you wouldn't be able to see the guy's face. That's a fact.
DOOCY: Oh, stop it. Stop it.
[crosstalk]
CARLSON: Well, that's only because she has pants on.
GUTFELD: I couldn't resist it. I couldn't resist it. But can I bring up the cover of Newsweek real quickly?
DOOCY: Sure.
GUTFELD: Here's the unspeakable truth. This -- the reason why they did this close-up and retouched photo of her face where you see warts and all, is because people in publishing are jealous. I worked in publishing for 20 years. They're full of unattractive people, and they just can't bear the fact that a politician is better-looking than they are. It drives them nuts.
KILMEADE: But Greg, here's the thing. You know that I thought for a story, there was a reason why they sucked half her face in, there was a reason why they closed up on her eye, but it has nothing to do with the story at all.
GUTFELD: No, not at all.
KILMEADE: But don't you want to sell magazines? Why would they put an unattractive shot of an attractive person?
CARLSON: It's not unattractive, though, because -- here's my point about this, Greg --
GUTFELD: She's still pretty hot.
CARLSON: She's still a beautiful woman, and quite frankly, her whole image, Michelle, her whole image is about being just like one of us, so I'm not offended by that shot, really, because I think it shows that she's still beautiful, number one, and, number two, yeah, she is just like the next-door woman.
GUTFELD: But the rest of the world gets airbrushed. She doesn't get a break?
CARLSON: So what?
KILMEADE: They would never do that to Obama.
CARLSON: Michelle?
MALKIN: Yeah, that's right. Every picture of Obama has a halo behind it. And I think Gretchen's right. I don't think there's anything these mainstream photographers can do to make Sarah Palin look awful. She is a gorgeous woman, there's nothing they can do about it, and this is why the left is so deranged that they resorted to Photoshopping her in bikini pictures. And I think, well thank God that didn't wind up on the cover of Newsweek, although they still have a couple weeks left.
The look on that douchebag's face says it all. It shows just how far the Republican party has fallen. I saw a bumper sticker in traffic the other day that was also quite telling. It simply said "McCain • Palin", but all you could see from one car length away was a big "Palin"; "McCain" was so small that it looked like a dingbat.
Ah, you thought you'd plant "dingbat" there just to elicit a comment about McCain, didn't you? We may not be the sharpest bulb in the box, Nerzog, but we won't be suckered into juvenile insults by such overt solicitations.
We'll come up with them all by ourselves...
Right, Neon.
"McCain" was so small that it looked like a dingbat.
First of all, most people tend to shrink down to little gnome-like stature in their golden years, and referring to Grampy as "it" is as bad as him calling Obama "that one".
Well done, Colonel.
Leave the bait to the less cunning...
Not that I am above snarky namecalling, but I was using "Dingbat" in the typographical sense.
I would never refer to Grampy McCheesenuts in such a disrespectful way.
I'm shocked that you all would use these terms to describe John "strayed from the herd" McBush and Sarah "phone-a-friend" Cheney/Palin.
We've lost 2 trillion dollars in our retirement accounts over the last fifteen months. The stock market has lost many trillions more. There are two wars going on, some are trying to instigate a third, foreclosures are at 10,000 homes per day, unemployment is skyrocketing, credit has been frozen and GM is discussing bankruptcy, yet the focus of Fox is on a photo of a middle-aged woman on Newsweek's cover. A woman they want us to think of as presidential material, not a cover girl.
The McCain/Palin campaign thinks it's more important to question past associations of Democrats but not their own. The candidates wife rants about the disrespect shown her son on his service in iraq while demeaning the service of 2,500,000 men who served in Vietnam.
What's wrong with these people?
My retirement is disappearing and all the morons at Fix Noise care about is a picture of Palin!!!! IDIOTS!!!!!!
Yeah, but we still need to know what the Fox talking heads really care about:
GUTFELD: She's still pretty hot.
I'm not even sure what their beef is with the photo. It's a strange crop, and a close-up, but is it just that it doesn't jibe with the fantasy the rightys have built up about how "hot" Palin is?
Maybe it's all psychological with them, and being confronted with her mug that close up after the initial excitement has worn off has them a little confused.
Stoopid reality! It's like wingnut wolfsbane.
That's the thing, I was reading this issue just last night, and while checking out the cover, she looked fine in the picture. I don't know what their problem is. Seriously, she has a few wrinkles here and there, but what the heck? Wouldn't that just add to her "one of us" moments?
She looked fine. Fox is hyperventilating about nothing here.
Magnolialover...MissJoeSixPackSoccerMom performed in Pittsburgh tonite as just a regular gal.."one of us"......$1000 a plate dinner and to be special, $25,000 to sit at a table with her. Now that be must be one helluva six-pack. The line was probably around the corner here in this blue-collar hard workin' beer drinkin' Steeler lovin' town, throwin' down 25G's to sit at a table with her. ;>)
I think you caputred her in full-spectrum kodachrome accuracy, MadDog. I've been watching her appearances develop since the Republican National Convention, and I've noticed her increasing audacity. She loves the attention, and feeds off of it.
To many, the phrase "attention whore" might come to mind, even though I, myself, would NEVER suggest using it to characterize Ms. Palin...
Thanks, neon. The strangest thing, though, is it seems my post was somehow erased (or photoshopped?) I remember posting and you obviously read it, but now it has disappeared. I know I didn't use any "bad" words or vulgar language, although both would have been appropriate for Palin. I agree completely with your "attention whore" description.
And to think these are the same twits who just months ago used photoshop to purposely distort the faces of anyone they didn't like.
Nailed 'em
How to make Palin unattractive..- just read what she says...
And THAT'S why I'm going to give this a WITH. Fact is, if this WAS Sen. Clinton would be (rightly) up in arms about it. So to point of Fox's hypocrasy hereis kind of... hypocritical?
It's a bad photo. And it's sexist. (No one would has photo'd McCain that way!) And Fox, despite their own photographic shenanigans in the past, was right to critisize it. We don't need these kidns of things folks. The photographer should have known better. This doens't help. No female cadidate, from either party, or any party (even a FRAT party) should have a photo taken of them like this.
Let's at least apply what feminist / equality principals we do share, and apply them to everyone.
Amen to that, Mr. l.
Is it just me, or do the other women on that clip sound jealous?
And while we're at it, are any of the women here jealous?
Well, Holly Dearest, you've spoiled MY Friday night plans with your very first sentence.
Thanks. Just.....thanks.
Sorry 'bout that. There's always Angelina. At least she backed up her feminine affections, unlike Malkin, who only uses her tongue to suck pleasure out of life.
Somebody watching you :
GAAAAAAAAK!
Just replace "Malkin" with "Maddow" and "Palin" with...
Damn, who's the Democrat equivalent of Palin?
If we're talking about the reaction they evoke, then probably Hillary.
I think your first question should be "who's the Democratic equivalent of Malkin". Is Maddow even similar, outside of having ovaries?
No. Maddow isn't the foaming at the mouth rabid liar that Malkin is. Not even close. Dawuss is always doing this, trying to show how "both sides are doing it" kind of thing. Maddow's show is intelligent, and funny. Malkin just rants about evil liberals and things like that, and just outright makes things up. Maddow is about 10,000,000 times better than Malkin ever thought of being.
No, not this time - I tried to find a left-wing girl to replace a right-wing girl.
DAWUSS,
Are you kidding? You want to lay claim to saying that Rachel is ugly? I think not!
I will grant you Malkin is slightly more attractive than Rachel.... but since Malkin has decided to be nothing more than a paid political hack to spew nothing but sewage.... what attractiveness she may have over Rachel is lost is that transaction!!
Of course, if Rachel would be so kind as to grow her hair long..... she would be doing my fantasies a service!
As for Palin..... I'm still trying to figure out if she's trying to run for VP or the Hot Teacher of the Year Award??
And to make it worse, we all remember Malkin talking about "stinky tofu cheese."
The phrase was smellier than stinky tofu
Thanks, now I've got to go burn my lesbian porn collection. And I had such plans tonight...
You too?
Maybe we should just get together and.... OMG. Yuck! What was I thinking?!?
Never mind...
You were thinking "How could I pass up such a cool dude?"...
Actually, I was thinking "hey, I've watched 'Debbie Does Alice' and 'T*tty T*tty Gang Bang' so many times now that I've memorized the dialogue. Maybe a trade for some new material might be in order".
But then I got to thinking "Doggie porn? Ewwwwww...."
Once you go beagle you'll soar with the eagles! ;)
I couldn't.
I propose a bailout for the Lesbian Porn Industry.
Then I counter-propose some lesbian porn for the bailout!
Throw in a comprehensive health care package or we'll just be getting screwed again...
[A]re any of the women here jealous?
DAWUSS:
Of course I am jealous of Sarah Palin, in a sense. How many of us (men or women) get to be governors? How many of us are nominated to be vice president? We should all be jealous of the success of Sarah Palin, in part because she seems to have stumbled upon it, with neither hard work nor brains to account for her position. I am jealous of the alternate universe Blueberry who gets to wake up in the governor's mansion, youbetcha!
But if you're asking whether women (and I'll admit that I'm n=1) are jealous of her looks, the answer is no. There are plenty of women to be jealous of, and I'm not going to say that looks don't play a huge factor. But Sarah Palin isn't attractive enough to make up for her personality. I'll take a witty, funny, intelligent beautiful girl (Amy Sedaris) over a vapid, crazed, corrupt, pretty girl any day.
ps - Are you jealous of Obama?
Love that you mentioned Amy Sedaris. Biden and Obama are both handsome men. They HAD to pick someone younger and cuter AND conservative or McCain would lose. Oh. Whoops. But the one thing we can give Sarah is that she's cute. Usually goes a long way and has, apparently. OH, I am female, btw. It's not jealousy - it's repulsion at her politics. Hillary would be furious if they did that too her -- whoops --- they did have a field day with that cleavage shot!
The Republicans are the masters of phony outrage. I'll bet that if you look at magazine covers from past years, you'll see this treatment fairly often. It's just an impactful way to show a face. Flattering? Who cares? I propose that insisting on a flattering photo is in itself sexist. It only reinforces the notion that Palindrone Twit got where she is on her looks (which is what I believe). She certainly didn't get there on her brains.
As for horny boy between the Twit's ankles, what a great photo! It's a great editorial shot, and I'd give the photographer a Pulitzer.
Hey, remember this :
Yea, that "terrible librul media..."
That gal's got legs like a Steinway pianie.
Is Sarah Palin Supposed To Be A Sex Symbol
Maybe I am getting old. I don't see Sarah Palin as a sex symbol. Instead, I thought she was trying to make the case for Clark Kent's sister. She appears to be deliberate in toning down any sexual references.
Michelle Malkin's comments appeared to hold a element of jealous feelings. It's fitting that the wannabee white would wannabee a white bomb shell as well. Thank God for the in depth coverage of Fox News.
Actually, with all the bad news the John McCain camp is getting these days, you have got to wonder how Fox News and the true bias MSM will deal with it. What will they say during this period? Who will they lie on? What news will they create; they don't report news. You can bet their best will be working at it, so put on your "stink" reflection suit. The boo boo is about to fly.
Joseph
I honestly don't think that photo on the newsweek cover is bad.
Michelle Malkin looks hotter all the time. Palin has some killer calves.
The pictures of Palin were in poor taste.