Sarah Palin Gets Cover Of Us, OK! Magazines

In a continuation of the trend of celebrity magazines covering political figures this presidential campaign season, both Us Weekly and OK! feature John McCain's Vice Presidential pick Sarah Palin on their covers this week.

Us headlines its cover, "Babies, Lies, and Scandal" while OK!, which uses the same photo as Us, but flips it, goes with "A Mother's Painful Choice." Interestingly, OK! goes with a double-cover, seen below, with the alternative cover a picture of Barack and Michelle Obama from Thursday night's acceptance speech, also flipped horizontally, with the headline, "Life With My Girls."

Us featured the Obamas on its cover in June, to surprising newsstand success. People recently featured the Obamas as well, but with less successful newsstand results.

The back side to OK!'s Sarah Palin cover:

Comments

[Nan2008]

OK, time to buy a Sub. to US. If I had one for OK I'd cancel it, because of we're they put Obama and Mitchell.

[Roxanna]

Sarah Palin reminds me of Natasha Henstridge in the Movie Species...
With a very voracious Appetite!

[postedby]

DId anyone here see/hear the US mag editor getting ripped a new one by the Fox correspondent about the "Babies, Lies & Scandal" headline? It was awesome.

Sad that there are people that will base their voting decision on this fodder/ilk.

[roxn]

I guess that would make Sarah Palin - kind of like Obama - a celebrity ??

[SonyaInTx]

My thoughts after Sarah Palin's speech. She was: sarcastic, fluffy, and the word that rhymes with witch. The males in the republican party are hiding behind her. Obama shouldn't even dignify the insults. A woman with a knocked up daughter shouldn't be throwing stones at the media for legitimately questioning her ability to help run the country when she can't keep things under control at home. McCain should be ashamed of this choice. It's window dresssing that belongs in a trailor park.

[Diogenis]

Sara better understand that in breaking the "glass ceiling", she has no privacy as a public figure.

[factsandtruth]

Sarah Palin is a celebrity!!!

[CO Redhawk]

Nice picture of a loving grandmother and her grandson.

Seriously.­...any proof it's not? (and an unsubstantiated letter stating that Bristol is NOW "about 5 months pregnant" isn't proof, it's hear-say)

[MaryanneNJ]

If you really look close at those photos, she does not appear bonded to that baby. Very detached.

[Diogenis]

From a male perspective, I see the same thing.

[Skua]

From a far-left male perspective, I don't have the ability to see whether someone is "bonded" to a sleeping baby from a single photograph probably selected (by who?) out of a collection of photographs.

[DarkWitch]

I thought the same thing, the picture struck me as just another photo op a la Bush. It kind of creeps me out. Wonder if her family values are motivating her to breastfeed, which of course even conservatives must know is best for the baby's health. How's that going to work out on the campaign trail for her, I wonder?

I am under the impression that she will leave the baby to campaign. Poor baby, his mother insists on bringing him into the world with a handicap, then dumps him off on the relatives pretty quick to persue her political ambitions. Another example of conservative fetus worship over the well being of born children. Then she allows her 17 year old daughter to be publically humilated by announcing her unwanted pregnancy that, by the way, Sarah failed to teach her daughter how to prevent. In my humble opinion that woman must have a very cold heart.

If that behavior represents family values, I most assuredly will pass.

[Porter]

Well, I think Sarah's wonderful - a great mom, grand-mom, church lady, fundamentalist, with real American values and none of that elite crap those Democraps are known for. She knows only Democrats are descended from the apes and that they're all going to hell anyway so who cares?

I'm delighted that she's getting this kind of coverage, and hear she's gonna be on the cover of the National Enquirer too for a minor indiscretion she had a number of times with her part-eskimo hubby's business pal. That'll teach him to leave her home when he goes after caribou!

Sarah is gonna break that glass ceiling, you'll see.

To heck with Obama - I'm going all the way with Sarah!

[seriously29]

i have a vajajay also, can i be president. i speak well and am willing to sell out my kids and family because at the end of the day it is all about me.

porter, do you believe everything you hear or do you research for yourself. mccain has 7 to 10 homes and is worth about 34.5 million. do you think he cares about you?

she chose this job over her children, does she care about you when she is sending the message to her kids the mom is first and foremost

also do you really think that these kids will marry. i am sure after the election they will either disappear of say it just didn't work out. these poor kids. but who cares the repuplicans could win again and then all can really see the damage that they can do and there will be no way out.

[Diogenis]

Go with her, she will need help getting the glass pieces out of ...her hair .

[oaklynne]

"none of that elite crap those Democraps are known for..."???­? As opposed to the Republican party of the very rich, the special interests, and the entrenched Washington insiders, aka Bush/McCain? In fact is there anything more elitist than the Republican party and their 8 homes and corporate ceo pals?

[butterworth]

BTW, how long before the R eligious R ight is up in arms that the O bamas let their kids read Harry Potter?

[mudbones]

OMG they do? :) good one

[Lois37]

Im sooooo sick of hearing how Palin's "private life" should be kept private. Wake up and smell the coffee, hon, when you decided to run for a PUBLIC office, expect your life to be just that...PUB­LIC.

[seriously29]

this is one reason why mcsame chose her. reverse sexism. i say take it like a man and palin says but they are unfair.

if you want to stomp with the big dogs, then leave the whining behind palin. a woman i am saying
take it like a man.

[ImpalaSuperSport]

Megyn Kelly rips US Weekly a new one - Look ma! No media bias here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAy4-Kmz5T4

[dnels14]

Mary had a little lamb,
little lamb, little lamb,
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went,
Mary went, Mary went,
and everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.

[seriously29]

i am so sick of mcsame following everything that Obama does and saying me too, i could scream, hasn't anyone noticed.

[Strivinginsc]

Why did the governor get amenocentesis when she does not believe in Abortions. What other reason is there to get one if not to check on the viability of the child. Also why would she put her fetus in danger of being aborted with the proceedure. I am really puzzled by the little things. Who goes on a plane ride from Texas to Seattle and then take another to Alaska after their water breaks. ( Remember 4 prior pregnancies). What really happened is their business ( they can cover up what they must) but why make the average American with any knowledge of motherhood look stupid is beyond me.

[JUSTME]

She didn't. It's a lie. It's a scurrilous lie. That's OK, though. The National Enquirer is on the job. The National Enquirer will save us. But first I want John McCain and his gang of crooks to get all hyped up and think they have a chance to win before the Enquirer breaks the story. It will be so much more satisfactory that way, don't you agree?

[mudbones]

Never thought I'd count on the NE but can't wait to see the next edition.

[butterworth]

I know a woman who is a parent of a Down's syndrome infant. She barely has time to sleep or get her hair cut, but P a l i n has time to be V ice P resident? How involved can she be in her kids' lives? I think she is merely using the "family values/mother of 5" thing the same way B ush used his religion.