That Giggling Sound You Hear…

Posted on May 14, 2012 at 7:17 am by Bob Cesca

…is the far-right snickering at this week’s Newsweek cover.

I have a column for The Daily Banter coming up today with this cover as the launching pad. But I can already hear right-wing talk radio pointing and laughing at this one, and you can bet it’ll be coupled with “San Francisco.”

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  • ranger11

    Are they serious?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YJTRJCOIMLAN6EARLFOQXJHDF4 Roxanne

    I couldn’t agree more Bob. I heard someone on one of the morning shows say that it was an homage to the Bill Clinton, First Black President cover but, Sullivan stepped on his own rather emotional reaction to the news that the President was siding with Gay Marriage advocates by going with this cover that will likely offend many people and bring joy to countless others including the wingnuts. They’re very childish and will have a good time with this one. Nice going Andrew!

  • Curt Barnes

    Don’t miss the relationship between this cover and Time’s breast-feeding three-year-old. Obviously Newsweek saw the sales advantage of cheap stunts and tried to come up with one of its own, respect and taste be damned. Newsweek and Time go the way of Mad Magazine. It’s all about sales–we’ll try to justify our silly or inflammatory covers with softball articles to be read only by a tiny minority–i.e., the literate.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YJTRJCOIMLAN6EARLFOQXJHDF4 Roxanne

      Good point Curt. This only shows how desparate they’ve become. The bloggers are putting them out of business.

  • Victor_the_Crab

    You stay classy Newsweek!

  • Ipecac

    One of my Tea-Party friends (hopefully my only Tea-Party friend) posted a comment on Facebook to the effect of “I knew Newsweek was in the tank for Obama, but a halo?”

    So he wasn’t snickering; he completely missed the point and somehow took it that they were deifying him instead of suggesting how The President might be seen to Teh Gays.

  • Clancy

    Yes, maybe we should never say anything because morons on the right might think it’s fun to snicker at us. Dear lord, people, who cares what they think? Do you think this cover is actually going to change one mind? “Oh, I thought maybe Obama was an okay president, but Newsweek said he was gay. . .” Seriously, there’s absolutely nothing more that they can get out of this than what has already been said by the Limbaughs of the world. The substance of Sullivan’s article is fairly compelling, and the only ones who find the cover snicker-worthy are the same idiots who were never going to vote for Obama in the first place. In other words, so what?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Norris/1597765442 Michael Norris

    Time, Newsweek, The National Enqirer, all serious journalism.

  • mrbrink

    Glad America can handle all this like adults. Take an unprecedented leap and stick your neck out for gay rights and equality and the best Andrew Sullivan can do at Newsweek is give right wing America a gay joke on the playground to stoke. This kind of journalism might add more bully-fuel to the electoral fire, and what dumb bastards still think people should know Bill Clinton was referred to as the first black president at some point in Idiocracy history? You have to be smarter and cooler about your shit than this. Newsweek should have just printed, “Bullies Unite!” And off to work they go, mocking and bullying their wives, their kids, their classmates, their representatives, and anyone else who might dare vote for “the first gay president.”

    On the other hand, President Obama is fighting harder for America than ANYONE I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. He is establishing entirely new standards for “the Good Fight.”

    They can stab it, poison it, shoot it, threaten it, laugh at it, but “Hope and Change” won’t die. It still stands, fuckers.

    • http://twitter.com/AlanFors Alan Fors

      “Hope and Change” won’t die. It still stands, fuckers.

      I’d put that bumper sticker on my car.

  • Lazarus Durden

    Sullivan’s article was pretty poignant. I enjoyed it. The cover, meh, but it’s not for me. I’m not gay so I can’t really understand what a big deal this is for the gay community. I’m glad they’re finally getting some good news after soon long.

    And I could care less what the Right thinks. I quit caring a long time ago, other then how to tell them they’re wrong.