Conservatives MOCK Pelosi For Airbrushed Magazine Shot, Stay SILENT On Laura Bush's Retouched Book

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CONSERVATIVE HYPOCRISY!:spank:


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" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is on the May/June 2010 cover of the DC magazine “Capitol File,” and conservatives are all worked up that the photograph of her may have been airbrushed. The Washington Examiner has a piece titled “Cover girl Pelosi looking rather … airy in D.C. glossy”:


If you haven’t managed to score a copy of the May/June 2010 edition of Capitol File magazine (typically flanked on every table or bathroom at any D.C. social function) you’ll notice the cover girl Nancy Pelosi looking particularly young.


Celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Ayman Hakki of Luxxery Medical Boutique in Waldorf, Md., said although he believes Pelosi has had work done (specifically Botox of the frown lines, fat injections, a mini face-lift), the image is not the product of additional plastic surgery.


“There is airbrushing around her eyes, her upper lid has been airbrushed to make it look like there is less fat on the inside,” Hakki told Yeas & Nays. “And there is airbrushing on the line of her jaw.”


The story was touted on Fox Nation and featured on the Drudge Report:


Drudge doesn’t seem to sense any irony in the fact that next to his Pelosi story is a picture of former First Lady Laura Bush’s book cover, which also looks less than 100 percent natural. ThinkProgress spoke to a couple of graphic designers who said that there definitely was some airbrushing done to the Laura Bush photograph.


Additionally, in the past, conservatives have advocated more airbrushing of female politicians. They were outraged when Newsweek featured a picture of Sarah Palin that showed her natural features. So basically, airbrushing conservative women is acceptable, but airbrushing Democratic women is ridiculous.


While people debate the merits of airbrushing magazine shots, it’s a common practice and certainly not a scandal that says anything about the person being photographed.



<http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/29/pelosi-drudge-laura/>

[Arkana]

1. Pelosi looks like she was a fox in her younger days.

Laura Bush just looks like the fucking Joker.

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3. She's 70 years old and I think she looks great regardless of any cosmetic touchups.

[abelenkpe]

9. G, I hope I look

that good when I'm 70.

People can be so mean. What's up with that?

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17. I agree. HYPOCRISY is all the repukes have left in the bottom of their bag of cheap tricks

and insults.

[RandomThoughts]

5. I think they both look like ladies.

Very dignified and beautiful. And both have contributed to society.

[Arkana]

7. I'd agree that Pelosi has, but what has Laura Bush done for society

other than commit vehicular manslaughter and pop Xanax by the fistful?

[tularetom]

8. Please tell me what Pickles has contributed to society

I've been scratching my head since I read this. I can't think of a thing, but I'm willing to be convinced.

[Bluebear]

10. What was Laura's great societal contribution?? Just curious

[RandomThoughts]

15. She seems to be nice when she gave interviews.

Not sure, but seems like she is a nice person, and that is a big contribution in society.

I could be wrong, but from memory, she seemed to always seem friendly when seen on TV.


I think she was a librarian or a teacher at one time, remember something about that. Those are both honorable professions in my view so there is that to.

[spanone]

2. they both look fake....wax figures

[DesertFlower]

4. pelosi looks great even when she's

not airbrushed.

[Bluebear]

6. Gotta say, I did NOT recognize Pelosi by that picture. I did recognize Caesar Romero though.

Maybe it's Pelosi's hair, a generic anchorperson's hairdo...but the Joker is unmistakable.

OK I'm sorry. me :spank:

[gratuitous]

11. That looks like Katie Couric's face on Pelosi's body

In any event, the editorial decision to airbrush the hell out Pelosi's features is up to the magazine's editors. The photo on the cover of one's book is up to the author. So, while this "controversy" barely merits the time it takes to notice it, the person responsible for how Pelosi looks on the magazine cover is someone on the magazine staff; the person responsible for how Bush looks on the book cover is Bush herself.

[SoCalDem]

14. Yes.. It IS Katie's face

:rofl:

[eppur_se_muova]

22. Quite so. No one asks the "subject" if they would like to be airbrushed.

Not that the editors would care; they know attractive faces sell magazines.

Ask k d lang, who never wears makeup -- and who had *lipstick* airbrushed onto a magazine cover photo. (Ooooh, much more feminine! Twits.)

[AmericaIsGreat]

12. Here's a pic from a long time ago

Looks pretty good to me!

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16. A good looking woman AND SMART!

[Make7]

13. FOX News Upset At Newsweek For Printing An Un-Retouched Photo of Sarah Palin

 
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/fox-news-upset-newsweek-printing-un-r


Untouched, retouched - you just can't ever win.
 

[mopinko]

18. i can't believe anyone still uses the word airbrushed.

please

[DavidDvorkin]

19. Pelosi was a fox. Laura B. never was.

Apart from that, the hypocrisy is both astonishing and completely unsurprising.

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20. Without hypocrisy, they just wouldn't be true-to-the-core republicans

[DavidDvorkin]

21. They're so damned blatant about it, and they're never called on it

That's what really bugs me. Our mainstream journalists aren't journalists.

[AnArmyVeteran]

23. Photo of Laura's face without Botox, makeup & airbrushing...

Note/Disclaimer: The phone of Laura Bush is a before and after depiction of what she truly looks like without massive amounts of botox, makeup and five gallons of paint to airbrush her photo. Photos were, of course, not altered in any way.

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24. Thats a neat trick of her smoking a cigarette through her cheek. LOL!

[seabeyond]

25. i wonder how much time we spend critiquing a male politicians photo, airbrushed

or not, on any given cover.

[4_TN_TITANS]

26. I'm sorry, that might have been Pelosi 25-30 yrs ago

but not lately. Otherwise, it's a mighty fine female specimen.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

27. Mrs. Bush's is definitely retouched.

Looks nothing like this.

[AnArmyVeteran]

28. LOL, I wonder how much paint was used during Laura's airbrushing!!!

Cool pic of Laura, but shouldn't her hair be red? :)