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LATimes' Snead: Palin With 'Rifle' on Newsweek Cover... is it 'OK?'
LATimes' Snead: Palin With 'Rifle' on Newsweek Cover... is it 'OK?'
Over at the L.A. Times' The Dish Rag blog, Elizabeth Snead wonders how Newsweek got Governor Sarah Palin to pose "with a rifle" for the cover of its next issue? Snead then reveals that it was not a new photo but an old one, that the Governor did not pose for the cover at all, and wonders if it ...
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Why Sarah Palin Rocks
Pirate's Cove — ... Doll House, but, there are many more in the same series. Ace has a bunch from al-Reuters. Oh, and hey, the upcoming Newsweek cover is the subject of intense debate at the LA Times. Entertainment writer Elizabeth Snead wonders if it is OK if Newsweek used a stock photo from 2002 on the cover of Palin holding a gun. Then she wonders Hey, is that even the right way to hold a rifle? Can’t you shoot your foot off like that? As Newsbusters points out What we have here is another denizen ...

Why Sarah Palin Rocks
Stop The ACLU — ... wonders if it is OK if Newsweek used a stock photo from 2002 on the cover of Palin holding a gun. Then she wonders Hey, is that even the right way to hold a rifle? Can’t you shoot your foot off like that? As Newsbusters points out What we have here is another denizen of Hollywood that knows zip about firearms. Palin is not holding a rifle. And even if it were a breachloading rifle, with the breach cracked open, draped over a shoulder, one cannot shoot one’s foot off regardless. A breach must be closed before any foot shooting can be in the offing. $100 says it would be ...

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