Some People Find Sarah Palin’s Pores Offensive
Posted by: Catherine Strawn
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11:00AM, Friday October 10th 2008
Fox News had two women on “America’s Newsroom” to discuss the extreme close-up photograph of Sarah Palin on this week’s cover of Newsweek. Andrea Tantaros, a Republican media consultant, said it is “a clear slap in the face in the face at Sarah Palin. Why? Because it’s unretouched. It highlights every imperfection that every human being has. We’re talking unwanted facial hair, pores, wrinkles.” Julia Piscitelli of the Women and Politics Institute at American University disagreed, saying that it’s nice to see a beautiful woman in her natural state for once. Watching the video segment is painful. At once point, Tantaros starts speaking over Piscitelli: “This is mortifying, Julia! This is mortifying!” What the program didn’t discuss is that the article’s headline is “The Palin Problem,” and magazines actually use photos to convey the message of the accompanying article. The cover photo is reminiscent of a microscope’s close inspection, and the article attempts to investigate Palin in a similar way. Another factor not discussed: News magazines try to stay away from the Frankenstein photo retouching that fashion magazines do on models.
Honestly, Tantaros’ rant only makes me want to go out and buy the issue so I can see what a pretty face like Palin’s looks like with all its imperfections.
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Kiki T
wrote on October 10 2008 @ 11:48 am: [report]
Soo annoying. The media will find any ridiculous story and analyze it on-air. WTF cares? So what Newsweek hates Palin, so do tons of other press. The fact they are talking about her unwaxed lip on CNN is a detour from the issues that brought her to being in that position in the first place—their whole excuse was to see her up close and personal, and the message was taken loud and clear. However, obviously many took it too superficially and just want to play the victim card for her again and again. Annoying!
Lynn
wrote on October 13 2008 @ 02:04 pm: [report]
What is that lady on the right talking about? First she’s upset about it not being retouched, then she somehow jumps to the tagline of the article and takes great offense that Newsweek doesn’t think any regular Joe Schmoe can run a country. What is that about? A vice president is SUPPOSED to be better than the rest of us.
Plus, what does that have to do with the topic at hand?