This is a cover that's guaranteed to give the conservatives a conniption fit.

The Republicans and Right Wing media keep banging the drum about Harvey Weinstein while remaining seemingly oblivious to their own hypocrisy.

Just get a load of what Tucker Carlson, who currently occupies the time slot made available after Bill O'Reilly was forced out of Fox News due to his own accusations of sexual harassment, tweeted the other day.

Powerful ppl knew what Weinstein was doing & not only ignored it but actively took his side against his many victims #Tucker @FoxNews

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) October 13, 2017

I know right?

I think Germany might have the very best Donald Trump magazine covers.

German news magazine @sternde features Trump. Text = "His fight" a play title of Hilter's book 'mein kampf'. V. strong stuff in Europe. pic.twitter.com/swvg4UURou

— Andrew Beatty (@AndrewBeatty) August 23, 2017

Courtesy of The Hill: 

“Neo-nazis, Ku Klux Klan, Racism: As Donald Trump stirs the hate in America,” a translation of the cover reads.

Great, the whole world now knows that we have a Nazi sympathizer in the White House. 

All they knew before was that we had a pussy grabbing, moronic, Russian puppet in there.

New covers for The Economist and The New Yorker.

The new covers of @TheEconomist and @NewYorker are 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/xo2nN1c7gz

— shauna (@goldengateblond) August 17, 2017

Anybody else sensing a theme here?

This latest cover of Newsweek is certainly not going to go over well with Cheeto Hitler.

Today's Twitter tantrum should be epic!

German magazine Der Spiegel tells the unvarnished truth about Donald Trump. Update!

Courtesy of Der Spiegel: 

Donald Trump is not fit to be president of the United States. He does not possess the requisite intellect and does not understand the significance of the office he holds nor the tasks associated with it. He doesn't read. He doesn't bother to peruse important files and intelligence reports and knows little about the issues that he has identified as his priorities. His decisions are capricious and they are delivered in the form of tyrannical decrees.

He is a man free of morals. As has been demonstrated hundreds of times, he is a liar, a racist and a cheat. I feel ashamed to use these words, as sharp and loud as they are. But if they apply to anyone, they apply to Trump. And one of the media's tasks is to continue telling things as they are: Trump has to be removed from the White House. Quickly. He is a danger to the world.

I read all the way to the bottom of the article and I could not find a single point that I disagreed with.

Yes, Donald Trump has to go.

Now if we can only convince the Republicans of that simple fact.

Update: The front page of German newspaper.

The front page of Germany's Die Welt national newspaper this morning, titled: “Heaven and Hell”. pic.twitter.com/sUiAGUZJ1o

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 26, 2017

Heaven and Hell, I think that is fairly accurate.

New cover of Der Spiegel.

The Germans certainly understand what's going on with Donald Trump.

And of course this is not the first time that Der Spiegel has gone after Donald Trump. 

National laughingstock.

The cover of the German magazine Der Spiegel this week.

Yep, I think that about sums it up.

Barack Obama first sitting President to be featured on cover of LGBT magazine. I can hear the conservative heads exploding already, can't you?

President #BarackObama is our Ally of the Year and cover of the #Out100: https://t.co/h9GBgXcoOZ pic.twitter.com/89UZytobYP

— Out Magazine (@outmagazine) November 10, 2015

Courtesy of TPM: 

President Obama will be the first sitting President of the United States to have posed for the cover of a LGBT publication, it was announced Tuesday. Obama was named the "ally of the year" by Out magazine. 

Obama will be featured on the cover in a black and white photograph. 

"This is the first time a sitting president has been photographed for the cover of an LGBT title, a historic moment in itself, and a statement on how much his administration has done to advance a singularly volatile issue that tarnished the reputations of both President Clinton and President Bush," the magazine wrote on its website. 

The magazine's editor-in-chief sat down with the President for an interview, to be published as part of the publication's "Out100" 2015 edition.

(You can read that interview here.)

I think considering the President's support for LGBT rights, and how much progress has been made on their behalf during his presidency, that this seems kind of like a no brainer.

Of course it will absolutely be misrepresented by the Right Wing as proof positive that Obama is actually a closet homosexual. But then again what magazine cover could he had posed for where they WOULDN'T have seen it as proof that he was gay, a socialist, a Muslim, or a traitor?

How the Fundamentalists see Atheists.

So WE'RE the ones who have our heads buried in the sand?

"Have you tried reasoning with Fundamentalists?" They say.

"How divorced from reality can they really be?" They say.

"Can't we all just get along?" They say.

I think this might help to answer some of those questions.

(Yes I do realize that this is directed at Muslims, but let's face it Fundamentalists are Fundamentalists.)

This week's cover for Charlie Hebdo. Clearly not cowering in fear.

Courtesy of HuffPo:

Charlie Hebdo revealed their cover image for this week's issue, printed just days after two gunmen opened fire on the newspaper's Paris office, killing 12 people. Four of the Charlie's cartoonists were killed in the attack. 

The cover shows the Prophet Muhammad holding a "Je Suis Charlie" sign with the caption, "All is forgiven."

There will be over a million copies printed whereas usually the paper only prints 60,000.

You know because terrorism works so well.

Well here's a magazine I will never subscribe to.

Abortion, Euthanasia, ISIS, and Hollywood are all comparable to one another?

Really?

I actually had never heard of this magazine until I found this image on Reddit.

After a little digging I found that it is a magazine put out by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. And that many of the articles are written by Sarah Palin's look but don't touch boyfriend Franklin Graham.

From what I can determine it is a magazine filled with dire predictions for the end of the world as we know it and the only cure for all of that is.....wait for it.....God.

Oh yeah and on the magazine's webpage they also beg for donations, because though God is all powerful he does not work for free dammit!

Sarah Palin is now conducting boring interviews for Guns and Ammo?

Okay so the guy in the middle of the picture is Sgt. Dakota Meyer, who just received the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor.

Apparently his reward for that is to be subjected to a truly banal interview by Sarah Palin.

Here are a sampling of the questions she supposedly asked:  

Now that you’re out of active duty, what are your short- and long-term goals? 

While you were serving our country, what was your favorite or most valuable experience?

ZZZZ. Oh sorry, nodded off there for a bit.

Of course this is Guns and Ammo, so there must be a few questions about...you know...guns and ammo.  

You grew up in the outdoors and value the traditions of American sportsmen. What can we do to get others involved in the hunting, shooting and the outdoor lifestyle? 

How can we get more people involved in firearms and to realize shooting them is a safe and healthy sport? 

What was the first gun you ever fired and when? 

"Does your daddy load your guns for you when you go hunting?"

Sorry I added that last one. 

The answers to those questions are just as boring as the questions. In fact the entire "interview" feels like it was conducted by e-mail and only attributed to Palin in order to attract interest.

But here's my question.

Just how many phones does this crazy woman own?

Okay so now that Palin's fake reality show is coming to an end, and Fox News is essentially done with her, is she now down to freelancing as a reporter for whatever Right Wing magazine will give her a couple of dollars?

New, super flattering, magazine cover featuring Hillary Clinton.

Now I know what you are thinking, "Holy crap! Hillary has transformed into Gaia the Greek mother goddess, who created and protects the earth. Well of course I have to vote for her in 2016 now!"

Or perhaps your take was that the creators of this cover could not find an unflattering enough image of Hillary Clinton, so they made their own.

In fact it is supposedly an attempt to portray Hillary as an extremely powerful figure who has a number of talented political advisers and supporters trapped in her orbit. Or something like that.

Here is the article itself, which contains a hint as to what inspired such a hideous magazine cover: 

Sitting at a New York coffee shop one afternoon, a person close to the Clintons, whom Nickilippe had not authorized to talk, pulled out a felt-tip pen and drew a triangle and a circle on a white cocktail napkin. The triangle, this person said, represented Obama’s team, with the president on the top and everyone else clearly in their hierarchical place. The circle represented the Clintons, with everyone in a vortex angling for the innermost rings. Over the years, this amorphous setup has led to a fair amount of resentment and infighting.

Now do you get it? 

It is really not that the article is completely unflattering, it's not. However it seems to have a rather pessimistic view of what her campaign will look like, and whether to not she can keep so many powerful egos from clashing while she, and Bill, decide who gets closer and who gets pushed further out into orbit.

But seriously, that cover?

Final image of the day.

I felt bad about once again leaving Palin unattractive mug at the top of the final post for today, so I thought it might be more soothing to see somebody who is beautiful both on the inside as well as the outside.

This is from Michelle Obama's interview in Ladies Home Journal.

The President is a lucky man.

Jahar Tsarnaev: Rolling Stone cover heartthrob or dangerous terrorist?

This is the cover that is causing Twitter to go crazy today and attracting outrage from both the Left and the Right, Mostly the Right.

Much of the anger has been focused on the fact that Tsarnaev looks TOO attractive on the cover, and some have compared his cover to the one done for Jim Morrison of "The Doors."

However in my opinion it does not even reach the level of "controversy" when it comes to Rolling Stone covers.

After all this is a magazine that once had THIS image on its cover.

Not to mention this one:

And as for glamorizing hateful figures Rolling Stone would be hard pressed to beat this one:

Comparatively speaking it is a little difficult to get TOO worked up.

After all the idea is to attract interest and if this kerfuffle is any indication they have certainly done that.

Here is is a taste of what the actual article reveals: 

• As Jahar lay in the boat, surrounded by SWAT teams and police, FBI negotiators mentioned a public plea for his surrender from his former wrestling coach. An agent on the scene later told the coach that it could have been this name from the past – and the memory of that past – both of which were invoked during the standoff, that convinced Jahar to ultimately give up. 

• Around 2008, Jahar’s older brother Tamerlan confided to his mother that he felt like "two people" were inside him. She confided this to a close friend who felt he might need a psychiatrist, but Zubeidat believed that religion would be the cure for her son’s inner demons and growing mental instability, and pushed him deeper into Islam. 

• Jahar never spoke about 9/11. Once, though, he let slip to a high school friend that he thought the terrorist attacks could be justified, and pointed to US policies towards Muslim countries and US drone strikes and other attacks as his rationale. 

As a parent who was shocked to learn that my daughter not only believed that Jahar Tsarnaev had died along with this brother back in April, but who also believed that there was a government conspiracy involved, I am interested in getting more facts to help me understand exactly what did happen and how the United States can keep it from happening again.

(And yes I recognize that part of keeping that from happening again might be exactly the type of program the details of which are currently in Edward Snowden's possession in a Moscow airport.)

So ultimately I think the fuss over the photo is much ado about not very much. If the point was to attract attention and readers, Rolling Stone did just that. If the point was to turn Tsarnaev into a terrorist version of a rock god I think that is only something we could determine after reading the article. But I somehow doubt it.

How the First Lady and President are inspiring America. Yes, yes they are.

Here is my favorite excerpt from the article:  

The president and First Lady both seem to be in ebullient moods, and deservedly so. His surprisingly decisive reelection is now history; the tonally precise inauguration is ten days behind them. The First Lady, it must be said, is funny, and it soon becomes clear that she can’t resist an opportunity to tease her husband. The first real question I ask them is about the persistent notion among the Washington press corps that they—unlike, say, the Reagans or the Clintons—are somehow antisocial, that they don’t privately entertain enough at the White House, that they don’t break bread and smoke cigars and play poker with their enemies. When I joke that they might want to “put that idea to rest” once and for all, the president starts to answer, but his wife, whose back has gone up ever so slightly, cuts him off. “I don’t think it’s our job to put an idea to rest. Our job is, first and foremost, to make sure our family is whole. You know, we have small kids; they’re growing every day. But I think we were both pretty straightforward when we said, ‘Our number-one priority is making sure that our family is whole.’ ” 

They are quick to point out that most of their friends have kids themselves, and that when they go on vacation, usually with longtime family friends and relatives, they end up with a houseful of children. “The stresses and the pressures of this job are so real that when you get a minute,” the First Lady says, “you want to give that extra energy to your fourteen- and eleven-year-old. . . .” “Although,” her husband says, a big grin spreading across his face, “as I joked at a press conference, now that they want less time with us, who knows? Maybe you’ll see us out in the clubs.” 

“Saturday night!” says the First Lady. “The kids are out with their friends. Let’s go party!” 

“ ‘The Obamas are out in the club again?’ ” says the president, laughing. “What is true,” he says, more seriously, “is that we probably—even before we came to Washington—had already settled in a little bit to parenthood. And. . . .” Here he pauses in the way that only President Obama can. “Let’s put it this way: I did an awful lot of socializing in my teens and 20s.

He sure did.

You know the one criticism of the President that I will NEVER understand (You know besides the whole "Fascist, Communist, Nazi" thing.) is the one that says he is cold and aloof.

I don't see that at all. ESPECIALLY when he is around the First Lady who seems to bring out the best in him.

And I have to say that based on the votes in the last election, it looks like the majority of the country feels muhc the way that I do.

Ahh! Well this is a MUCH more accurate representation of Todd Palin!

Well you have to admit that this captures his essence far better than the original.

Right?

(H/T to IM contributor Ric M.)

Todd Palin "graces" cover of Alaska magazine and embarrasses real Alaskan men everywhere.

Seriously?

The Toad has not won this race since 2007, so why does he deserve to be the face of the Iron Dog in 2012?

Oh, I'm sure it has NOTHING to do with the influence his attention addicted wife still holds over certain media outlets. Right?

Yeah, right!

GQ Magazine names Mitt Romney the LEAST influential person of 2012.

Courtesy of GQ:

Was anyone inspired by Mitt Romney? Did anyone vote enthusiastically for Mitt Romney? Of course not. Voting for Romney is like hooking up with the last single person at the bar at 4 a.m. The only successful thing he did this year was embody every black stand-up comedian's impression of a white person. Thank God the election's over. No more endless photos of Mitt staring winsomely off-camera with that attempted smile on his face. No more glaring campaign mishaps week after week after week. No more labored media efforts to make him look like anything other than Sheldon Adelson's pampered money Dumpster. Good-bye, Mitt. I hope you enjoy the rest of your life quietly ensconced at Lake Winnipesaukee, blissfully ignorant of the plight of anyone who doesn't have $300 million squirreled away in the Bahamas. 

Seriously does it get ANY better than this?

And here I thought I was just about finished laughing at Mitt the Twit.

Go ahead and click the link to see the rest of the "25 Least Influential People of 2012." (I have to say I am not in agreement with all of their choices, ESPECIALLY number seven.)

Oh, and exactly how comprehensive of a list can it be if it does not even have Sara hpalin on it?

Unless of course, could it be that she is SO lacking in influence that she couldn't even MAKE it onto this list?

Oh, now THAT is a delicious thought!

Will this be the face of the man who represents our country in four more years?

This image is from the cover of Bloomberg Business this week.

For me it is an interesting picture because it is at once heartbreaking to think that sacrificing for his country could age this man so quickly, but then again the proud defiant look on his face is also inspiring in that he appears so willing to give his all to do what is right, regardless of the cost.

But that's just me. What do you think?

P.S. By the way this cover was designed before the election, so there were two choices.

To see the Mitt Romney cover just go below the fold.