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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHave you seen Newsweek's cover for this week? We need a response.
http://themoderatevoice.com/156578/newsweek-magazines-latest-cover-hit-the-road-barack/
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(367 posts)RKP5637
(67,111 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)Laurian
(2,593 posts)couldn't find it.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Now its just sad.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)RKP5637
(67,111 posts)See: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/whoa-newsweeks-latest-cover-may-surprise-you/
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Newsweeks latest cover story comes from none other than noted historian Niall Ferguson. The article, titled Hit the Road, Barack, argues that President Obama has proven that hes an economic illiterate and that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryans path to prosperity is our only hope.
What a bullshit magazine.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Got it.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)the magazine with 3 million fewer subscribers than they had 10 years ago?
What a waste of 42 poly-coated 4-color graphics pages with bogus spin about shit that happened a week ago.
ps: a blast from the past -- How Newsweek ended their credibility:
Mr. Klein, a Newsweek columnist and an occasional commentator for CBS News, offered no apologies for lying to friends and colleagues, insisting that he had guarded his secret in the same way that journalists protect news sources.
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/18/us/columnist-s-mea-culpa-i-m-anonymous.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
high density
(13,397 posts)renie408
(9,854 posts)Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)He's not even an American citizen, as far as I'm aware.
Edit to add: Imagine the response from conservatives if a US-resident non-citizen academic historian made a similar partisan commentary on why a sitting Republican president needed to go.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)reformist2
(9,841 posts)One thing is true - it's always been a rag.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)He bought it before he died and for a brief moment, before Tina, it seemed to take a liberal turn.
Sidney among other things (audio magnate) was the president of Friends World College one of the most progressive and interesting colleges that took root in the 60s and set the template for international experimental education.
He'd never approve of this crap
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)why do you expect anything else?
scheming daemons
(25,487 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)I made the mistake of reading one of his books on economics. What drivel and he is being proven to be all wrong as time goes on. You hit the road Naill and don't look back.
edhopper
(33,587 posts)he debated Krugman about monetary easing, he was wrong, but won't really admit it.