Did Newsweek go too far with this cover?

This week's Newsweek cover has Sarah Palin pictured in running shorts.

The photo was actually taken for Runner's Magazine, and this was an appropriate pose and appropriate attire for that cover, but not Newsweek.

This is another heavy- handed attempt to diminish Palin's credibility. I am not a fan of Sarah Palin, but I am a fan of fairness, and this cover is simply not fair.

When Washingtonian magazine had a cover with the president shirtless and in swim trunks last year I thought that was out of line and this is too. Palin should be judged on the merits and this photo simply was out of line.

Sarah Palin appeared on Oprah this week and she whined about how Katie Couric had an agenda when she interviewed her last year. Palin believes Couric's mission was to make her look like an idiot. If that was the mission Couric was successful, but sadly I now believe Palin might have a point.

I did not put much credence in anything Palin says until this week, when my Newsweek arrived in the mail. I had seen the cover and I found it offensive, but when I read the text I was completely infuriated. It reads, "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah?'' the subhead reads "She's Bad News for the GOP and for Everybody Else, Too."

If you do not read one article in the entire magazine you already know where they stand. I am not naïve so I know every magazine has its own slant, but give me a break. I am fairly liberal, but this is truly piling it on. I was listening to MSNBC Morning Meeting today and I heard one of the guests actually say it was Palin's fault for posing for the photo. He said if she had not posed they would not have had the picture. What?

The woman posed for Runner's Magazine and her attire was entirely appropriate, but to put that photo on Newsweek is simply just dirty politics.

As a woman I have to defend Palin. We are ideological opposites, but this should anger all women. I think Palin has a lot to learn on policy issues if she wants to be taken seriously, and I think she takes cheap shots at the president, and I do not think Facebook is the proper venue to comment on policy or to spread fear with terms like "death panels", but that aside today I have to agree with her when she talks about the mainstream media.

This woman can't simply be dismissed or destroyed. She does have to be dealt with but, not like this.

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