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First, the lighting is harsh and uneven, more like a driver's license photo than a professional portrait. Her hair casts a shadow over her forehead, indicating poor positioning of the flash on the photographer's right. Her expression is unnatural, something good portrait photographers try to avoid not only because it looks bad, but also because it doesn't give the viewer any insight into the subject. Really good portrait photography reveals the subject's personality, which is why the best portrait photographers spend a lot of time making their subjects feel relaxed and comforatble. You can't capture someone's personality if she's nervous, unready, uncomfortable or distracted. Bachmann appears all of those in that photo. On top of that, she's awkwardly posed, as if she happened to be walking by and suddenly looked up. It looks like a test shot, not a final portrait. ( I found out after writing this, that Bachmann's campaign said it was a shot from the lighting test. ) Forget a national news magazine; that photo wouldn't make the cut in some smaller, regional publications based on its technical flaws alone. So how did it make the cover of Newsweek?

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Monday, the National Organization for Women (NOW) spoke out against Newsweek’s most recent cover, which features an extreme close-up of Michele Bachmann and the title “The Queen of Rage.”

“It’s sexist,” NOW president Terry O’Neill told TheDC. “Casting her in that expression and then adding ‘The Queen of Rage’ I think [it is]. Gloria Steinem has a very simple test: If this were done to a man or would it ever be done to a man – has it ever been done to a man? Surely this has never been done to a man.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/08/the-national-organization-for-women-
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If this were done to a man or would it ever be done to a man – has it ever been done to a man? Surely this has never been done to a man.”

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Jon Stewart takes Newsweek to task over Bachmann cover

After briefing the London riots on Tuesday night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart did something slightly out of the ordinary: defended Tea Party Rep. Michele Bachmann.

By now most people have seen Newsweek's latest cover featuring Bachmann with the headline "Queen Of Rage." But it's not the story that's making headlines -- it's the way Bachmann looks in the photo: wide-eyed, a bit startled and a bit startling.

Stewart concluded that it couldn't possibly be "an accidentally s***ty" picture of Bachmann and showed several photos of her looking very photogenic to back it up. Of course, he still worked in some amazing send-ups, including placing the cover side by side with the poster of Steve Carell from "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" (the similarities are uncanny!).

Newsweek Editor Tina Brown has defended the cover, saying it aimed to capture how Bachmann is "galvanizing" voters in Iowa, but Stewart insists that the photo intended to make her look crazy. Watch the full clip to hear Stewart's solution for a Bachmann Newsweek cover that would actually do the trick -- without even using a photo.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/10/jon-stewart-defends-michele-b
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Stewart also said you don't have to make her look crazy, you can figure that out by listening to what she says.

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Stewart also said you don't have to make her look crazy, you can figure that out by listening to what she says.

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Which makes the point all that more significant. He's no fan of Bachmann, which is plain to see. But even so, Newsweek went way over board in its treatment of of her.

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Hee, hee, hee...you vilify Stewart gleefully 90% of the time, but hold him up as proof when he says something you like. I see it's all over google, and the title on many is "Jon Stewart Defends Michelle Bachmann", which is hysterical if you see the entire bit. It's amazingly funny that some see that as him "defending" her:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-august-9-2011/glazed-and-confuse
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Yes, how very unfair of them to publish a picture that she posed for and for which she would have had to sign a release.

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She's fostered far more kids than you ever will, so that alone makes her a better person than most./b]

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Okay, she is a good crazy person!

...of course I don't know if putting kids in a house with that level of batshite insanity is a good thing.

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Yes, how very unfair of them to publish a picture that she posed for and for which she would have had to sign a release.[/B ]
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Yes, how very unfair of them to publish a picture that she posed for and for which she would have had to sign a release.[/B ]
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If she didn't sign a release and they published it, she can sue the living SH*T out of them and WIN without trying. Next week, it'll be Newsweek magazine, owned and published by Michelle Bachman.

So don't be an asshole, you ASSHOLE!

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Bachmann not crazy.

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Beer good...

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The assholes are at Newsweek. Not just my opinion, but John Stewart and N.O.W. agree w/ me.

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On the other hand, I have to refute Mike's remark about her not looking at the camera. As much fun as it was, it was a simple mistake of not knowing which camera she was supposed to be looking at. Which Jon Stewart also had an absolute BALL with, and alluded to again in the segment you've been ranting about. That was a faux pas that she's still living down, but it was, in my opinion, an honest mistake and in no way indicates her intelligence or sanity.

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The assholes are at Newsweek. Not just my opinion, but John Stewart and N.O.W. agree w/ me.

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And with all the video cameras around Jon Stewart and the N.O.W., you of course have video to back up the claim that they called Newsweek an "asshole", right?


I mean, you're real big on providing "proof" of things, aren't you?


Care to back up that claim that it's not just your opinion that they're assholes?

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My words, their view. Why are we still arguing about this ? Oh, of course, I know why. YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

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Again, distorting the point, entirely.

You, as a extreme far Left liberal zealot, refuse to accept the fact that Newsweek intentionally distorted their coverage of her, for purely political reasons.

Even the far Left wing N.O.W. and John Stewart can honestly come to terms on that point, yet you can't.


Curious.

( plus, the fact that you continue to use that parody of Gasden's flag, simply shows that you hate America )

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Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. ~Mark Twain


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Your conviction is anti- American. That much is clear. Also, you can't even accept that those on the Left are siding with Bachmann on this matter.

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Your conviction is anti- American. That much is clear. Also, you can't even accept that those on the Left are siding with Bachmann on this matter.

How petty of you.

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The assholes are at Newsweek. Not just my opinion, but John Stewart and N.O.W. agree w/ me.

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And with all the video cameras around Jon Stewart and the N.O.W., you of course have video to back up the claim that they called Newsweek an "asshole", right?


I mean, you're real big on providing "proof" of things, aren't you?


Care to back up that claim that it's not just your opinion that they're assholes?

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My words, their view. Why are we still arguing about this ? Oh, of course, I know why. YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

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Your conviction is anti- American. That much is clear. Also, you can't even accept that those on the Left are siding with Bachmann on this matter.

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Expressing ones opinions, no matter what they are, is the most American thing a person can do.

...and good for those on the left, unlike you I don't need a herd around me.

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Your conviction is anti- American. That much is clear. Also, you can't even accept that those on the Left are siding with Bachmann on this matter.

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This is hilarious, coming from someone from Georgia, a state which up until very recently had on its flag the battle flag of the Confederacy, the most TRULY anti-American group in history!

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Your conviction is anti- American. That much is clear. Also, you can't even accept that those on the Left are siding with Bachmann on this matter.

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Expressing ones opinions, no matter what they are, is the most American thing a person can do.

...and good for those on the left, unlike you I don't need a herd around me.

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Your opinion isn't the issue here. It's the attempt by a news magazine to falsely paint a candidate in a negative light. They've gone to such lengths to distort her image as to post a test shot photo as their cover , with extremely an misleading caption.

Everyone can see this, and even those on the far Left ( at least those who are honest ) can come out and claim what Newsweek did was yellow journalism, and intentionally deceptive.


Why can't you just be civil and mature about this, admit that Newsweek went over board in what they did, and just leave it at that ?

Really not that much of an issue.

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Just shows the bias of the media, and lengths to which the Left will go to , in order to vilify anyone they feel is a threat to their dear and fluffy Obama.

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Expressing ones opinions, no matter what they are, is the most American thing a person can do.

...and good for those on the left, unlike you I don't need a herd around me.

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Your opinion isn't the issue here. It's the attempt by a news magazine to falsely paint a candidate in a negative light. They've gone to such lengths to distort her image as to post a test shot photo as their cover , with extremely an misleading caption.

Everyone can see this, and even those on the far Left ( at least those who are honest ) can come out and claim what Newsweek did was yellow journalism, and intentionally deceptive.


Why can't you just be civil and mature about this, admit that Newsweek went over board in what they did, and just leave it at that ?

Really not that much of an issue.


" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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They did not paint her in a negative light, just the true light of what she is.

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