WOW, Newsweek Cover: "The First Gay President"

[Alcibiades]

44. BEcause it will sell more copies

Also, if some bigoted low-information voters get the impression that Obama is gay, that's just a bonus for the corporate shills who run Newsweek.

They are pretty irresponsible with regard to their covers, regularly issuing distortions that are the modern version of yellow journalism. For one cover, they age-progressed princess Diana to mark her death, for another, they asked "Is your baby racist?", etc. Then there's this:



But they one I think they are actually referencing is the Sarah Palin "Saint Sarah" cover, in which they give her a halo. I guess they can figure if they can gin up sales by putting a halo on Palin, why not Obama?

Sure, the Atlantic sometimes does these things, too, but they don't have Newsweek's circulation. And, while their editors can credibly claim that the readers get it, that's not true of Newsweek: a lot of conservatives loved the "Saint Sarah" pic, even though it was obviously intended to be ironic.