You have to see it to believe it. Some moron has meticulously photoshopped pictures of Sarah Palin to make her look plain. (S)He (you know it’s a guy) has removed her glasses, jewelry and make-up and restyled her hair. From Ann Althouse:
This is an effort at defeminizing Sarah — like drawing a mustache on her. In fact, there’s a good chance that Sarah Palin would look more beautiful with subtler makeup, no glasses, and a well-designed, more professional hairstyle.
Sigh.
Filed under: General, Sarah Palin, sexism and misogyny Tagged: | misogyny, Sarah Palin
I love the smell of desperation in the morning. It appears she frightens them beyond the capacity for rational thought. (h/t/ ghostbusters).
Me too…..I just squirm with glee at how much Palin just scares them to death.
Here’s one for dkat:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10454683-265.html
Oops, right quote, wrong URL. Here’s the right one:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/233645
The wrong URL is also interesting, it’s about Google’s Buzz social network thingy and the backlash against it.
Yves at naked capitalism has several excellent articles about Greece and Goldman Sachs actually HIDING their true debt before they were allowed into the EU. It’s no wonder that Germany refuses to support the bailout unless Greece imposes huge spending cuts…..they feel Greece deceived them from the git-go, with our own Goldman Sachs helping them do it.
The good news, according to Simon Johnson, is that the EU may investigate how GS manipulated those facts……it’s the only way Americans will ever find out, if at all.
Apparently Obots can be rescued:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8517727.stm
Why would anyone want to?
LOL
I just saw that on memeorandum. Did the failbot actually think those pictures make her look bad?
Do failbots think?
It’s a woman…
http://www.koolass.com/profile.html
Well hush my mouth.
product of Chicago, dontcha know
Well, you know how Rush Limbaugh thinks there’s nothing more horrifying than a woman who’s close to Obama’s age? 10 out of 10 Failbots agree! Run for your lives!!!
I think she looks terrific without the glitz.
Really. I mean, if anything, they show how little effort is needed to make Palin look the way we normally see her because even bogusly stripped down she’s still quite attractive.
So if the Presidency is now a round of Hot or Not, that makes Carrie Prejean President, right? I’m confused.
Instead of primaries and caucuses we’ll have phone-balloting.
Voters will pay $.99 per call, with the money used to pay off the national debt.
But we’ll have to lower the age limit, and we’re kind of behind the 8 ball with our silly opposition to telecom immunity! Ha ha! We so didn’t mean that!
That’s actually the most productive proposal I’ve heard in over a year.
Working on the front page version – “So You Want to Be President?”
Look at what else the photoshopper has done… saw this link in the Althouse comment section…
http://www.koolass.com/july2009.html
and this is how she gives Condoleezza Rice props…
http://www.koolass.com/condy.html
Dowd fan…
http://www.koolass.com/dowd.html
Uh-uh, I ain’t looking. I’m out of brain-bleach.
This is how she treats people she likes, http://www.koolass.com/michelle.html
Funny, how she uses “narcissistic personality disorder” to describe Palin.
But wait, AlphaLiberal isn’t done! I will return with more of his genius!
What an idiot. Really.
IMO, these are the greatest comments in online history. Again from AlphaLiberal at Althouse:
Shorter: “don’t forget your burqa ladies, it’s to cover up your fa-cade.”
And also, he seems to think that only wealthy professional women need to wear makeup and special work clothes to present professionally. Instead of, say, zillions of women who have minimum wage or not much better jobs but deal with the public and are still expected by their employers to buy clothes and makeup they can’t afford easily in order to look a certain way and would be fired if they didn’t. Welcome to the real world, jackass.
So I guess now we’re supposed to be effortlessly gorgeous without makeup lest we be “unmasked” as posers and fakers. That’s attainable. I hate everybody this morning.
That’s why the male Obots don’t get that women deserve equal pay! They don’t understand how much extra we need to pay for basic necessities aside from the cosmetics and other upkeep “required” of women in the workforce.
MORON!
And one more:
I learn about the psychology of misogyny from these idiots. Pretty sure Alpha climaxes here toward the end of comments.
Priceless reply:
Despite the usual mix of painfully hypocritical sexist shots at liberal women combined with cluelessness from the conservatives, they were pretty good arguing with him. Frankly, the guy kind of reminded me of Armando, he went around in circles using lots of words but making no sense and somehow seemed to naturally assume he was winning the argument, somehow.
Sarah looks just fine to me, with or without cosmetic enhancements. It’s not about looks though. Yeah, let’s stick with the superficial stuff and ignore the more important things. That’s the ticket! Seems to be a popular stance these days.
More Amy Bishop history:
Who did she think she was, Rick James?
She’s a super freak, super freak, she’s super freaky, YOW!!!!!oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
C’mon myiq. She’s a religious whacko, anti-choice, stupid bimbo, bad mother. She DESERVES this type of treatment. You Palinsherocheerleader!! Shake those pom poms.
That reminds me, the whinging sound in the spam filter finally stopped.
Time to go flush.
It really bothers me how we keep polluting the water system with troll bits. Is there a more environmentally friendly way to dispose of those “things?” Maybe they’ve perfected those Star Trek vaporizors. Poof!
I guess you never got the memo – TC is green.
The “tremains” are held in a chemical treatment tank which is emptied out once a month and sent to the Kool-aid factory for recycling.
ahh…. ROFLMAO at that visual.
ROFL… some of the tremains would probably make good fertilizer, maybe we should start an organic victory garden
WtV — ewwww. I’d stop eating if that were the case. Everything would taste all sweet and grapey.
Oh, so maybe that’s what an organic victory garden is all about–turn kids off eating so their parents can stop worrying about not having jobs to feed them??
You forgot the fact that she’s an exploiter of children, not just a bad mother.
“Exploiter of grandchildren”
(So sayeth Sully)
And the victimizer of poor, young, publicity shy, upright, upstanding Ricky Hollywood. Her perfidy really knows no bounds.
Kaine says Coakley didn’t give a proper assessment of her campaign:
I hope they have adequate ventilation from the toxic hot air that comes out of his face.
I went and looked at the photo shopped pictures and guess what, Sarah is still beautiful. Her eyes become the focus and you can see truth, beauty and honesty in them.
Why you had to post those two ugly pictures when there are so many good ones to choose from I don’t know. And that doesn’t mean I don’t get the connection, I just lived through the Huff Po days when an opportunity to post a ugly picture of Hillary was never missed.
Well, either I didn’t want anyone to think I was a Palinsherocheerleader or I was comparing the misogynist treatment that two leading female politicians have received.
Take yer pick.
I’m torn here. Being the sort that’s easily amused, I find some sick humor in an artist taking the pains to retouch photos of Sarah Palin to make her look worse than she normally looks since vast majority of Photoshop retouching is to make average people look more attractive.
Usually images of women, “supermodels” even, are retouched to make them look flawless. Now, the images I’m referring to are professionally shot with the right make up, the right clothes (often torn in the back and pinned together to better fit the subject), the right lighting, etc. Even then, the final images are retouched to a degree of perfection that simply doesn’t exist.
If anything this is BIG LIE that an “activist” artist should be bringing to our attention. But oh no, Harnrahan has to go all high school on the pretty girl. What a complete moron. Let’s just buy wholesale the notion that it’s only okay for a woman to be pretty when she’s on the cover of a men’s magazine. But any crazy #@$! that thinks she’s gonna buck the system and run for president? Retouch her image to make her look as bad as possible. This is the way that the patriarchy manipulates women to keep other women in their place (the sex class) and disabuse any uppity women of the notion that they can run for the highest office in the country. Way to play the misogynist pawn, Kellyanne.
What gets me is … it’s not like she’s some botoxed freak. Yes, I’m thinking of you Nancy Pelosi !!!!!!
Would 0 be prez if he weren’t telegenic and “post-racial” in appearance?
Much was made of his looks in comparison to his opponents.
We had Obama-girl reminding us of his great looks constantly! Lest we forget the buff photos of him, and interviews about how he keeps so fit and young looking.
blech ;{
The ironic thing is politicians have some type of image consultant/handler on some level, especially if they enter the national arena. Obama had his gray hair dyed. The double standard here is incredible.
I think the photos make her look even more of a “Northshore Nancy” in that she appeals even more to the liberal Whole Foods nation types AND the suburban women. As a result these pics could actually increase her popularity!
What do you expect from someone named “kool@$$”?