Ann Coulter is reportedly unhappy with the photo of her on the cover of Time Magazine.
Now, let’s start off by getting this out: if TMV was on the cover of Time Magazine he wouldn’t care it he didn’t look perfect — although last week he was on MSNBC and the cruel TV camera made his five foot two, 147 lb frame look 6 feet, 210 pounds so he has since made some adjustments (now he only inhales one hot fudge sundae at night).
But for Coulter this cover either represents the crowning achievement of her writing and commentary career — she has truly become a political/cultural figure who is loved and loathed — or the beginning of a slide since some contend there is a jump-the-shark Time Magazine cover “curse” that afflicts many who appear on it.
No matter. But when we read on World Net Daily that she told You Know Who (you know, that guy fixated on Walter Winchell who wears that hat, who became rich and famous by people such as bloggers going to his website and recently said he thinks bloggers are irrelevant and won’t read them, since these days he gets invited to Presidential inaugurations and runs exclusive reports that often seem like they were sourced by political operatives with agendas) of the You Know Who Report (we STRONGLY suggest you go here, here, or here for various ideological versions which are actually better than his) we scrambled to find a suitable replacement.
We found the above illustration on 2Political Junkies and we are sure Ann will find it better and more accurate.
FOOTNOTE: We doubt if the cover photo was some big liberal media ideological conspiracy, Ms. Coulter. TMV worked on a newspaper and the photogs are usually trying to get the most artistic version of their photo that they can. Someones the photo subjects are happy, sometimes they’re not. At the worst, teenage boys — and perhaps Bill Clinton — will look at that photo and say: “She has a real pair of legs.”
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.