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Bachmann
Newsweek Cover Goes for
Insult But Gets Criticism in Return
Published August 09, 2011
Rep.
Michele Bachmann has declined to
get into the scrum with Newsweek over its cover story of the
presidential candidate
called “The Queen of Rage,” accompanied by an unflattering photo of the
Minnesota Republican, but others are calling the magazine out of bounds
in its
depiction.
The
National Organization for Women
President Terry O’Neill said that the cover of the magazine’s latest
edition is
“sexist” and referred to a simple test by the group’s founder Gloria
Steinem to
explain how they determined that conclusion -- would the magazine do
the same
to a man.
“Who
has ever called a man ‘The King
of Rage?’ Basically what Newsweek magazine -- and this is important,
what
Newsweek magazine, not a blog, Newsweek magazine -- what they are
saying of a
woman who is a serious contender for president of the United States of
America…They are basically casting her as a nut job,” O’Neill said to
The Daily
Caller and NOW confirmed to FoxNews.com on Tuesday.
“The
‘Queen of Rage’ is something you
apply to wrestlers or somebody who is crazy. They didn’t even do this
to Howard
Dean when he had his famous scream,” she said.
Newsweek
has defended the photo -- an
extreme close-up of the crystal blue-eyed Bachmann looking over the
camera with
a dark blue background -- saying that several of the images taken of
her
appeared the same way. The magazine posted other photos of her on its
website,
and many of them are flattering.
Bachmann
was asked about the cover
during an appearance in Iowa on Monday, where she is campaigning ahead
of
Thursday’s Fox News/Washington Examiner debate and Saturday’s Ames
Straw Poll.
She told voters she had not seen the cover.
“Ah-hah,”
she said when told the story
headline. “Well, we’ll have to take a look at that, won’t we?”
O’Neill
said that the main reason her
group, which disagrees with Bachmann on almost every issue, would stand
up for
and defend Bachmann against “these kind of misogynistic attacks is we
want
women to run for office.”
“Of
course my job is to defeat Michele
Bachmann and I intend to do so. But good women will not run for office
if
Newsweek magazine can do this to such a prominent politician and get
away with
it,” O’Neill said.
Brent
Bozell, head of the Media
Research Center and ForAmerica, said he’s not surprised by the magazine
cover.
“Both
Time and Newsweek have been
doing this to conservatives for years. It is sheer journalistic
dishonesty,”
Bozell told FoxNews.com. “But it is precisely because of this
journalistic
dishonesty that conservatives should steer away from these venues -- or
at
least demand some form of editorial oversight given that these
magazines simply
cannot be trusted.”
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