Latest Freeper panic: Newsweek conspired to make Palin's photo look "masculine"

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

For some inexplicable reason, the folks at Newsweek decided to waste a cover story on Sarah Palin's fake presidential campaign.

When word of the upcoming cover hit RimJob's place, Freepers got the tissues and lotion ready. But when they saw the rather ordinary cover photo, the natural paranoid state of being a Freeper overpowered the starbursts from the image.

The results are both sad and hilarious:

that’s an unflattering picture.
Take a close look at it. It almost looks like a man’s face.
I wonder if they photoshopped that to look less than flattering.
8 posted on July 10, 2011 1:37:27 PM EDT by RummyChick
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The wrists look masculine too. I’d be surprised if those scumbags didn’t Photoshop that picture.
19 posted on July 10, 2011 1:42:13 PM EDT by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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Exactly...they doctored it. She is so beautiful in person...I have seen her up close and can attest to her gorgeousness!
30 posted on July 10, 2011 1:46:25 PM EDT by Palladin (Sarah Palin in 2012!)
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I agree. An “unflattering” picture. It’s a man’s jaw line. They’re trying to make her look like Willem Dafoe.
38 posted on July 10, 2011 1:47:48 PM EDT by albie
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This NEWSWEEK cover is the only I’ve seen where Sarah looks her age, and is supposed to look her age, and the glamor seems stripped from her.
MESSAGE STILL, with the caption “I CAN WIN” is
SHE SHOULDN’T WIN.(not good looking enough)
46 posted on July 10, 2011 1:53:17 PM EDT by supremedoctrine ("uncurtaining the night,I'd let dark glass/hang all the furniture above the grass." -Nabokov)
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Of course they did. You don't think they want her perfect face on the cover of their biased magazine do you? We can expect all sorts of unflattering pictures of our Sarah when she runs. But then, think of what we have done to obama. Fair game when you accept a role of power. That's okay, we have her back.
47 posted on July 10, 2011 1:53:36 PM EDT by WVNan

Of course, when in doubt, pointlessly invoke St. Ronnie

Reagan aged too...he just colored his hair...like Sarah does
64 posted on July 10, 2011 1:59:11 PM EDT by wardaddy (Palin or Bachman..either with Marco....I'm often on DroidX..in bed late...hence my spelling..sorry)

Or maybe the Bible has words of wisdom about their favorite reality TV star

Witness this photo: it was designed to make her look uglier, more masculine: but all it did was add an air of confident gravitas which undercuts their whole meme of "Caribou Barbie."
Almost brings to mind Isaiah 54:17. Don't know for sure if that's what's happening, but sometimes it does look like it!
Cheers!
72 posted on July 10, 2011 2:04:07 PM EDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)

And it's nice to know they base their opinions on substantive things

While Palin is my first choice for POTUS and I have an E N O R M O U S respect for her, her policies and convictions, I just have to say:
With boobs like that she has never been and never will be a loser.
If anyone is offended by that statement, please accept my apologies in advance.
93 posted on July 10, 2011 2:18:04 PM EDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)

And you have to love their attempts at detective work:

Those aren’t Palin’s hands. Look closely at them. The back of the hands are extremely hairy. In all her the pictures that have her in a t-shirt, sweatshirt or casual there is no watch.
Unless they caught her during a workout, she doesn’t wear a watch. She wears a bangle on her left wrist.
97 posted on July 10, 2011 2:21:19 PM EDT by EQAndyBuzz (As long as the MSM covers for Obama, he will be above the law.)

Anyway, this goes on and on...and gets no less nutty as their pick apart their idol's appearance. Heaven forbid every photo not look like a pinup.

SPOT ON! The more you look, the uglier and more manlike it appears. The first bad shot I’ve ever seen of her. Gee, on Newsweek? Must have just been a freak accident.
133 posted on July 10, 2011 2:39:27 PM EDT by Doctor 2Brains (If the government were Paris Hilton, it could not score a free drink in a bar full of lonely sailors)
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It’s the first unflattering photo I’ve seen of SARAH. So they did something to it. Screw’m - they can’t touch her Patriotism nor her real beauty.
157 posted on July 10, 2011 2:51:03 PM EDT by presently no screen name
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Her chin was enlarged slightly, her nose was as well, and her eye color was darkened. The fine folks at Newsweek seem to think making her face look less feminine and more ethnic serves their purpose.
174 posted on July 10, 2011 3:04:00 PM EDT by RegulatorCountry
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I totally agree with you. It is an ugly picture of Sarah. She does look masculine. I wouldn’t trust Newsweek with a picture of my cat.
204 posted on July 10, 2011 3:35:29 PM EDT by Maryhere ("HE comes to rule the earth")
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What they did is expand her chin , her chin in the newsweak photo looks all fat and chubby like an old hag,its not even on straight
295 posted on July 10, 2011 5:55:14 PM EDT by KTM rider ( patriot turned rebel)
sorry...that heavy jaw and large face just does not look right. They must have manipulated the head to be larger in proportion to the body. unnecessary photoshopping
315 posted on July 10, 2011 6:56:34 PM EDT by redhead (Don't bother to impeach the miserable SOB, ARREST him!)
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That's what I noticed first, too. And second, her hands have been enlarged. I met her in person, as many of us have, and she's a small person with small hands. I'm not large (5'5" and 125 lbs), and her hand is smaller than mine. It's not even a very good job - you can tell at the wrists - and I think she always wears her wedding ring. (Maybe I'm wrong?) I don't do photoshop but I can do these things in Paint Shop Pro. Yes, the picture has been messed with. But try as they might, it doesn't get their desired effect, does it? :-)
350 posted on July 10, 2011 8:36:52 PM EDT by CatDancer (I want to call Sarah Palin "Madame President". And I'm old. So hurry up!)
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In the photos of her at Rolling Thunder, she does not have on a wedding ring. Maybe she was bloated the day the photo was taken? (you women know what I’m talking about)
364 posted on July 10, 2011 9:32:25 PM EDT by Spirit of Liberty
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It’s like they were trying to make her look like a tranny. It might have just been done with lighting,lens, and angles...but something is just plain weird about the bottom of her face compared to the rest of her head and her body.
404 posted on July 10, 2011 11:20:52 PM EDT by RummyChick

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[last_texas_dem]

1. Of course!

I know if I was Newsweek and wanted to make a woman look manly on the cover I'd have her stick her chest out like Caribou Barbie is in that shot! Makes complete sense...

[Maru Kitteh]

53. And unbutton her sweater down to her 4th rib....

[napi21]

2. Sorry, but I don't see their problems. She doesn't look masculine, but just like an

prdonary woman. The guy who spoke of her boobs as being great? I don't see it. She's just a normal woman, and I guess they can't handle that.

[Bluebear]

3. Poor things, don't they want to "do" her anymore?

Disgraceful.

[Quantess]

4. "...look carefully...those are a man's hands."

:spray:

How dumb! 45+ aged women have meatier, coarser hands than a 25 year old, in general.
I'm sure that's how she usually looks when she's doing something casual. She looks pretty, even in that photo. Nobody can really criticise her for her looks.

[Tx4obama]

5. Newsweek should have used the photo below :)

Edited to add:

Or this one...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6Ul6DEi5TPQ/TfJKkMsFUZI/AAAAAAAABK4/dVBY5x7uO0g/s400/Sarah+Palin+pouting.jpg

[WinkyDink]

24. Wow. Republicans LOVE to make this face:

[Mimosa]

36. LOL!!! Freepers don't like it when Sarah looks her age

Most of the photos they'd seen had probably been severely glammed up.

[Maraya1969]

6. Newsweek softened her pencil thin eyebrows. They look much better than

the ones she paints on herself everyday.

[jmowreader]

17. She doesn't paint her eyebrows on...

They're tattooed. It's becoming more and more common and there's nothing wrong with tattooed eyebrows, but whoever did hers wasn't very good.

[SpiralHawk]

19. Tattooed eyebrows?

Holy shit. I must live under a rock.

Why I never...

Learn something new every day...

[jmowreader]

46. It ain't cheap either

http://www.aspireskincareclinic.com/Permanent-Cosmetics.html

I can also understand why she'd want to do it:

This is Sarah Heath, back when she was doing sports:



Note that her brows basically end over her pupils.

This is her now:



It looks to me like she's had electrolysis to thin her brows followed by permanent brows and permanent eyeliner.

[mwb970]

56. That picture of "her now" looks about ten years old.

She's getting doughy and puffy now, which doesn't appear in the "now" picture you offer.

[jmowreader]

63. We're talking eyebrows here, not doughiness and puffiness

This is the picture the freepers hate; you'll notice her eyebrows haven't changed from the "expensive red suit" pic to the "dollar store running suit" one.

[JI7]

7. they want some airbrushed pageant pics or something ?

[thelordofhell]

8. If anything, they accentuated her breasts

putting the large print directly under her chest draws attention away from her face when you read it.

[struggle4progress]

9. Palin has, I think, only one use for us: we can use her as one of a dozen or so examples

of the bizarre craziness of the current Republican lineup. She stands no serious chance as a presidential candidate, so does not merit any of our time spent considering her prospects. And I would suggest simply ignoring her diehard supporters as fringe elements of our society, unlikely to play a real role in future developments

[JDPriestly]

10. Sarah Palin was born in 1964, I believe. She is 47 years old or thereabouts.

From now for about 10 years, her face will change, metamporphasize into the face of an older woman. Her fans who liked her for her flirtatious, girly look are going to have to get used to some big changes.

Hillary has aged pretty well, I must say.

[WinkyDink]

25. The math is pretty easy, with Google: born February 11, 1964.

[Dappleganger]

44. They're just whining that there's no leg shot.

[deacon]

11. She's another calomedy. n/t

[Posteritatis]

12. Lawl. (nt)

[LeftyMom]

13. It's not a very flattering picture, in that it looks like her

minus the usual ton of camera-grade face spackle, professional updo, expensive suit, etc. It's not especially forgiving light, nor is that shapeless sweatshirt thing going to look good on anybody. That's what a nearly fifty year old woman looks like when she's not making a herculean effort not to look like a nearly fifty year old woman.

Oh, and the reason her neck and hands look so damned weird? It's because she doesn't have enough subcutaneous fat, and it's going to get more noticeable as she ages and her skin gets thinner and less elastic. She needs to either run a bit less or stop and eat a fucking sandwich, because otherwise she's going to look like the cryptkeeper.

[divvy]

14. Well, that IS what she looks like after you sober up.

Time to lay-off the cool-aid.

[lbrtbell]

15. Newsweek didn't need to do a thing

She always DID look masculine.

Why do Republican women look like men in drag? (No prejudice or offense meant toward anybody in the GLBT community, I merely mean that Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, etc., really do look like men who just happen to be wearing women's clothing. Most men who cross-dress actually look gorgeous, so why can't these women look like women?)

[spinbaby]

16. They're overdone

The hair is too done, the makeup is too heavy, the clothes too carefully coordinated. Real women don't look like that.

[no_hypocrisy]

18. She looks like a gym teacher in that cover photo.

[mwb970]

20. Freeps certainly have a lot of time on their hands.

And a LOT of things to whine and be outraged about. It's like it's their hobby: other people watch sports or build model trains, Freeps whine and cry and sob. I guess it keeps them off the streets and safe in their mom's basement.

[Maru Kitteh]

54. Have you ever read DU?

Obviously, I love it here but let's be honest. It's about 85-90% whine and outrage on a good day.

[mwb970]

55. Maybe it's just me, but DU seems different from Free Republic.

Do you find the sophistication level to be about the same as well?

[Maru Kitteh]

57. Lighten up, Francis.

[SpiralHawk]

21. The Newsweek cover is Sarah Pale Horse in the classique "Man of Steel" pose...

No wonder the FreepBaggers flip. Sarah's gender-blender reality is way too much for psyches anchored in fantasyland.

[PoliticAverse]

22. The Newsweek article that goes with the cover is online here...

http://www.newsweek.com/2011/07/10/palin-plots-her-next-move.html

[TroglodyteScholar]

23. She doesn't look any different to me at all.

Not that looks are the first thing I concern myself with...unlike all those pervert freepers.

They've been fantasizing over an empty-headed woman who just happens to have a broad, manly jaw. Why they're only seeing it now I just don't understand.

[Vinca]

26. Well, one of them mentioned the boobs so at least they're awake.

[WinkyDink]

27. No complaints, though, about THIS Newsweek cover:

[Upton]

28. I don't know what they're sniveling about..

in the photo Palin looks pretty good considering her age. Not so much though if you focus in just on her face and ignore her hair and body..

[XanaDUer]

29. She has the usual goofy look on her face she always does

tho' beauty IS in the eye of the freeper.

[w8liftinglady]

30. ...she doesn't look like a Stepford Wife for a change.

All I can say is... they are showing their true colors....and IQ levels.

[JoePhilly]

31. As she ages, the right wing will drop her fast and replace her with some

new shinny object.

[Heywood J]

32. "With boobs like that she has never been and never will be a loser."

All hail our next President, http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/3654777/Woman-with-the-worlds-largest-natural-boobs-at-102ZZZ-appears-on-This-Morning.html">Annie Hawkins-Turner of Georgia.

[Taverner]

34. Yes, because the ONLY measure of a woman's worth is her breast size

[Heywood J]

45. Now now, we're talking about Freepers.

They also consider the ability to have kids and make pie.

[Taverner]

33. Finally she is being shown for the grandma she is

No offense to grandmas out there

[ElboRuum]

35. Trying to make her look like Willem DaFoe?

Oh, fa crissake...

:banghead:

[mikeytherat]

59. Would you like some cham-pag-ne?

mikey_the_rat

[TNLib]

37. Those people are whacko

I think she actually looks good in that photo.

[Ilsa]

38. Her feelings are going to be hurt by their comments since

I'd bet that really is her. Yeah, her buddies are calling her appearance "masculine," etc.

[Lucian]

39. ...

:rofl:

That's the best they've got?

[tammywammy]

40. I don't think it's an unflattering photo

She looks like a normal woman. If anything I'd say it's a feminie and humanizing photo, she's not made up as a Barbie. I think it captures her outdoor spirit. I think it's one of the better photos I've seen of Palin.

[jmowreader]

47. I can think of one thing I would have changed in it...

and that's the $5 sweatshirt. For God's sake, man, the woman makes more in an hour than most freepers do in six months, a $100 running suit would NOT be out of line!

[Enrique]

41. those Freepers are calling her ugly more than DU ever did

i didnt think it was such a bad picture, but then again I have a tranny fetish. Just kidding! (about the tranny fetish).

[HipChick]

42. Hilarious..

[Renew Deal]

43. The picture is fine.

It looks like her. I'm sure she likes it. It's a Wonder Woman pose. :shrug:

[dissidentboomer]

48. Wow. The common clay of the new west. You know -

morons.

[Raine]

49. I thought that a "masculine" type of gal was the kind they dream of

the kind that can kill, skin and cook a bear with her own two hands. All of a sudden she's too "masculine" for them, wow. I would've thought they'd loved that picture. :wow:

[jimmyflint]

50. She looks fine.

I think it's a nice picture of an attractive woman. I am not surprised that the freepers look at the same picture and see something completely different.

[NightWatcher]

51. Beauty fades but teh stupid lasts forever

Her Milfness is wearing off and these idiots think it's a photoshop

[Urban Prairie]

52. Blah, blahh, blahhh...

"They can't touch her patriotism"

Unfortunately for freepers, neither can she, for that matter.

It is because Scarah Palin's patriotism always has a price tag on it.

[ljm2002]

58. "It's a man's jaw line"...

...so these idiots JUST noticed Sarah's lantern jaw?

Sarah Palin is actually quite masculine looking. Nothing has changed, guys.

[MilesColtrane]

60. "all it did was add an air of confident gravitas"

[itsrobert]

61. Looks like she is showing her age

What's wrong with that?

[phleshdef]

62. Another sign of how insecure these psychos actually are.

Theres nothing wrong with that photo of Palin. Politics aside, I'd say she even looks good in it.