New Yorker Cover Mocks Palin's Claim Of Foreign Policy Experience

Gawker, Marc Ambinder and our own Rachel Sklar note that the New Yorker is poking some fun at Sarah Palin for her rather dubious claim that Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience. Scroll down for a full size image of the cover.

Comments

[redrush]

Hey,I can see a dentist from my window - anyone want a root canal?

[antenna123]

What are you charging?

[NPA]

And I can see the moon from my house, could I qualify for the astronaut program with NASA? What a joke!

[robin50]

LOL....sure! If it works sarah should work for every citizen.

But seriously, not only does Ms Palin lack in geography and foriegn diplomacy, she seems just like bush. She does not seem to have no natural curiosity, a total lack of wanting to know anything unless it is absolutely slapping her in the face.

[BabsfromKansas]

Can I have my gold fillings removed? I need to cash them in.

[AmazingChicken]

Hey, I can see my dacha from here!

[zkn0120]

Please all those who vote because they feel sorry for someone will deserve another 8 gruesome years!!!

[Beachrunner]

Danger! The more she gets beat up on, the more of a sympathy vote she'll get.

[Horst]

This is exactly the mistake many Democrats are making. Turn down the rhetoric and McCain/Palin ticket will sink into oblivion.

[iyamchazz]

McSame is cranking up the attack ads on Obama. Will that put Obama over the top?

[wolfgangmo]

I respectfully disagree. It was being polite and reserved that lost us the last 2 elections [well along with what was likely systematic election fraud].

I don't like fighting and I will extend my hand "across the isle" but if someone slaps my hand away and goes for my throat, then I will put them down like the dog they are. Obama should do the same and so should every other red blooded patriot.

[AnthonyVolpe]

The #2 choice for leader of the free world doesn't deserve sympathy. She deserves scrutiny. You don't put somoene in the White House because you feel sorry for her. You put her in because she can lead.

By the way - where was Obama's sympathy vote when he and his wife got the cover of the New Yorker not too long ago?

[okjoel]

I love it!

[gop4obama]

Take a quick look:

http://www.palinbycomparison.net

http://www.gop4obama.org

Thanks

[JerseyBob]

A Great Shower Curtain?

I've been subscribing to the New Yorker, off and on, for years. I kept a cover that was a cartoon map of the United States from a New Yorker's perspective. It is in a box in an attic. It is torn here and there. Well it turned out the cover was very popular indeed. It became the basis for a shower curtain and was sold by the New Yorker for years. It still may be. Grey Huffpos may remember this cover.

Looks like I have another keeper coming in the mail. A "Palin's Perspective" shower curtain?

[nastyvirus]

I'd buy that for a dollar!

[warsaw]

How about a bath mat instead?

[BabsfromKansas]

tp?

[JerseyBob]

Yes.

[TheAlchemist]

Remember Canada is her neighbor, too. That makes lots of foreign policy experience.

[TrevorAlan]

I think she's made that arguement too. That she's beside the Yukon and not, like Detroit, next to a big city with an actual volume of trade doesn't come into her mind.

[wolfgangmo]

Her "neighbor" to the east has only about 30,000 citizen and it is not even a province, it is a territory. Yukon is to Canada as Guam is the the USA.

This is hardly foreign experience. Invading foreign air space while running down wolfs with your airplane is hardly germane to the job.

[Lidi]

hahahahahaa!!

[Warmglobe]

Hypocrisy alert!..wasn't this the same New Yorker who ran that cover of the Obama's that everyone here was so incensed about?

[tomcat27834]

....and there are those that will find this blantantly offensive......

Its a free press...... get over it.

[PhoenixtheUndying]

Yes and if they show Palin chasing witches and burning books I promise to get just as upset.

[ymax]

There is NO terorisem conection in this cover.
I hope you didn't miss this point.

[skippypicasso]

As a long-time New Yorker reader (and Obama supporter) I found the Obama cover more in line with the magazine's ultra-ironic (what many dolts consider 'elite') recent tradition.

Insulting Palin's (and her supporters') lack of acumen or intellect is fish in a barrel.

Also: Payback is a Bi-atch.

[Jahmekyah]

The Obama cover was a mash up of all the incendiary and untrue myths and lies that have been told about Obama. This, on the other hand is a caim so ridiculous, made even more ridiculous by the fact that they have repeated it and are actually serious when they say this counts as experience.

[TXfemmom]

After all, those Alaskans have to get out and check for those pesky Russians every morning.

[RobertaInCT]

LOL

[BabsfromKansas]

Shoo, shoo!

[TheRebelGardener]

For a nation that is apparently crying out for change. Obama & Biden should be greatly outperforming McCain & Palin; but they are not. The Democratic party doesn't know how to deal with this & therefore resorts to ageism (McCain) & sexism (Palin).

[stepintothelight]

Not to mention" Stupidism" (McSnooz and Bloodlust Barbie)

[skippypicasso]

You know what, this whole reactionary 'sexism' thing is the most tired argument ever. I for one feel that America would be expressing the ultimate argument in support of feminism by sending this woman back to Alaska. Why is not OK for me to think that Ms. Palin is a slow-witted neo-con tool just because she is a woman?

[atldiva78]

I am a women and I think she is dumb as all outdoors. We should she her back to Alaska. Does that make me sexist no it makes me smarter the Mc same and her.

[ReasonableBill]

"Todd, TODD, get your cold snowmobile riding ass in here and see what I can see. It's not as interesting as looking into the neighbor's bedroom window, but it beats looking around Wasilla."

[Glowcy]

.
Eagle-eye Palin can see quite a bit very well with her backing from the repugs. If repugs are able to explain away Palin's foreign affairs experience because she can "see" Russia from her house or that a response to a question from her audience is really "gotcha" journalism, then Palin will be brilliant by repug reckoning at the debate.

So far this week, there is well-deserved MSM nastiness about Palin's likely performance at the Thursday debate which sets the bar very low for her debate performance. Oddly enough, I am quite concerned about Biden's performance because the man has a way of veering off message to the greater good of his opponent. Biden may aid Palin in looking mighty good.

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[whitesmith]

Sarah Palin, Madam Caribou.

[FritzSanLuis]

On the same subject--here's a song and video called I Can See Russia from Alaska (When I Look in Your Eyes)--a sweet song for a scary candidate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM1inuK-7lo