Fox News Irate Over Palin 'Newsweek' Cover

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October 10, 2008

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In a time of immense economic turmoil, in a week when "the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 were on course for falls of more than 20 percent, far worse than any week during the Great Crash of October and November 1929, or the Black Monday crash of October 1987," Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and Republican media consultant Andrea Tantaros could not help but air their outrage.

"Ridiculously unfair!" Kelly cried. "This is mortifying...a gross slap in the face!" Tantaros seethed. The two women were not discussing job losses, the crippling credit crunch, waves of home foreclosures or imminent threat of a global recession. Rather, they lashed out against this week's Newsweek cover photo of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The cover was not photoshopped to erase Palin's wrinkles, pores, or wisps of facial hair. This fact enraged the Fox News team, who claimed Barack Obama would never be treated with such indignity—though those who have scrutinized cover photos of Obama see plenty of imperfections.

-Marissa Colón-Margolies

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