The Media Mob

'Revealed': Magazine Airbrushers in Tank for Obama

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via theonion.com
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Last week, a lot of people in the media were upset about Newsweek's un-retouched cover photograph of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

The cover showed an extreme close up of Governor Palin's face, illustrating a critical appraisal of the candidate by Newsweek editor Jon Meacham in the magazine.

It prompted Portfolio's Mixed Media blogger Jeff Bercovici to aks, "Did 'Newsweek' Have to Show Palin's 'stache?" Fox News devoted a segment to the cover on October 8, 2008, and CBS News' Bonnie Erbe had some thoughts about in her Washington Whispers column last week.

To make the controversy all the weirder, The Weekender is running a shocking cover that touts an "exclusive" view of the "First-Ever Unretouched Photos of the Weird Birthmark on Barack Obama's Face." Of course, since The Weekender is The Onion's imaginary weekend magazine (think of it as the paper's version of Parade), it might be fake.

But in this election, when Fox News' Sean Hannity gives airtime to the man who invented the "Barack Obama is a Muslim" rumor, who the heck knows what's real and what's an outright lie anymore?

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Obama Poll Numbers Are a FAIRYTALE ! (not verified) says:

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OBAMA'S POLL NUMBERS ARE A FAIRYTALE.

REMEMBER THE 'DEWEY & TRUMAN' ELECTION WHEN THE NEW YORK MEDIA WAS HELL-BENT ON GETTING THOMAS DEWEY ELECTED PRESIDENT? ... TRUMAN WON!

HISTORY WILL REPEAT ITSELF IN 2008.

OBAMA'S LEAD IN PRE-ELECTION POLLS ARE A FAIRYTALE. . NO-WAY OBAMA WILL GET THE KIND OF NUMBERS THE MEDIA IS PROJECTING.

ACORN"S ILLEGALLY REGISTERED OBAMA VOTERS WILL NOT SHOW UP FOR FEAR OF BEING ARRESTED FOR VOTER FRAUD.

McCain & Palin will WIN !
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Anonymous (not verified) says:

that's the Onion weekender. a joke. geddit?

Anonymous (not verified) says:

Weekender you people are a disgrace to the people who support your paper as far as i am concerned you guys made up this birthmark i'll never read nor buy your paper again.

thanks for nothing.

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