Why they hate her (Sarah Palin) - Page 15

Hahahahaha, they should have airbrushed the Kindle.


I would have to wonder what definition of airbrush they are using in the complaint because it can mean something as innocent as removing a pimple to some serious as changing body dimensions. Most of the time smaller wrinkle lines, liver spots related to aging, obtrusive veins and things like that are dealt with.

On the Palin cover I would note the following. First that is one hell of an extreme close-up. They've cut out her hair, her neck and even part of her face. The shadows are added. As was noted on the menacing McCain photos a good photographer and also a good photo editor understand the importance of light. Palin has a shadow on one side of her face from her glasses and also on the other side of her face as it appears to be unlit. That harsh a lighting choice would reflect something in my view.

Additionally beauty has a lot to do with symmetry and ratios of facial components. There is a reason everybody appears to still love Britney Spears even though she is a chain-smoking, Dorito eating nutcase. She has beautiful ratios with regard to her face and great symmetry. (There are other actors and actresses that do as well but she is an example of beauty that will cause people to ignore the reality of her decisions and even singing ability)

Most of us do not have good symmetry and by that I don't mean we look like Igor the lab assistant, but that we have an eye that has slightly higher, lower, bigger, smaller placement than the other. We have uneven brows, our jawlines and even our heads are not the same on each side. The side that has better dimensions and placement is our "good side" and the other side is our "bad side" with regard to taking photographs.

A good photographer should help you utilize your good side to look your best. The reason you see certain people posing the same way over and over again is because that is their best side much like how a singer sings best in certain keys. (Buy your favorite singer across several albums and you will profoundly notice this)

I may ruin a couple actresses for you by pointing this out but I want my point made. Jodie Foster does not have good symmetry. She hides it with her hair and with angles. If you ever see a straight up shot of her face it is very easy to spot and so this doesn't happen often. Halle Berry has a left eye that is smaller than her right eye and the brow on that side is a bit weaker. (Paris Hilton has the same thing and so do I which is why I spot it so easily) Most of these problems get worse with age.

When someone removes a side of the face, that says something in a photo. Also what they put in and leave out says something. If I were guessing, I would say that Palin considers her right side to be her best and they photographed her left side. Her face is naturally very round which actually gives her a bit of a chubby look even when she is thin. She clearly works to counter this by putting her hair up most of the time and also by using makeup the change her "shadows" on her cheekbones. In the photo they cropped out her hair, and cropped out a third of her face.

It is an unflattering shot and yes she still looks pretty good in it, but in reality the job of all the people taking the actions associated with the shot is the make the people in them look good. We could argue that Obama had $5,000 of airbrushing and Palin only had $2000 or some nonsense like that, but so much more gives away the shot before that.

I also apologize to anyone who gets a complex after this because they look in the mirror and discover their nose isn't perfectly straight (don't compare your nostril size either), their brow line is uneven, one eye has slightly different placement than the other, etc. I didn't mean to give you a complex. You are not a monster. Just making sure your lighting and angles are right when they shoot you for Newsweek.

Actually I doubt her skin tone would be that even all over but there is no easy way to show such a thing.

It is easy to show how they used good angles to help her appearance though. They shot her best side and also gave her head a good tilt to cover eye placement and the fact that her jaw is not even on both sides. Her arm placement distracts a bit from her very broad shoulders. I'm not trying to be rude but her harsh features almost border on being a tranny. Her hair being down softens that jawline. I suspect the watch placement is also to make her hands look smaller.

Do me a favor, take your laptop or if you so feel compelled, your desktop monitor, and while looking at the picture take the right side and tip it up about four inches until her eyes are even instead of the tilt. Can you see the lack of symmetry between the eyes there that is being covered?

Imagine if they took a shot with her hands behind her back showing those broad shoulders, with her hair up emphasizing that jawline and from the right side which would make the lack of symmetry even more pronounced. That would be a terrible shot.

I agree that people are freaked out about the economy. However so far the solutions are being given by the same folks who caused the problems be they right or left. The media which should actually be reporting is instead bleeding red ink because when a candidate does come out with a message they focus on what they desire to promote instead of reporting news.

How hard is it really to just report the news? How many talking heads does it take to read the damn copy off the teleprompter? Not too many and so most of the time, no matter the network is spent on a bunch of talking heads showing their biases by dissecting the intent of those they hate since the news itself won't reveal it.



Why do bloggers spend their time pondering why Newsweek did an extreme closeup on the cover followed up by a series of photos catching out of context facial expressions and turning them into a lampooning photo series? They do that because that is what the "news" organizations are spending their time reporting on. People don't pay for propaganda.

Hey do we all yet know that some Republican supporter yelled at McCain on the stump? Sure. Do we know some guy somewhere yelled out kill them at a Palin speech. Yep. Do we have a nice hour long interview where major clips of the discussion aren't laying on the cutting room floor, where the questions aren't loaded, or false dilemmas, etc. instead of just asking for information? No we don't.

The media does not report on Republicans. They don't report on Democrats either because they "know" them to be good people and so they just reinforce the like with puff pieces. We don't have that hour long discussion I mentioned from Obama or McCain.

The closest we have had to that so far was the Saddleback discussion. The saddest thing is that increasingly the Daily Show and Colbert Report are the "news." I've even given up the Sunday Talk Shows, the only bit of network or cable news I still watched because there are segments now devoted to who told the funniest jokes each week instead of longer policy discussions. This Week has gotten to be the worst. Shouldn't This Week be different from Real Time for goodness sakes? I can enjoy the quasi-comical political commentary shows. I really enjoy Bill Maher but the guy should not be the same thing as a reporter. If I cant tell This Week apart from the Real Time, then something is wrong with our newsreporting process.