The Jann Wenner slime machine cranks up again
Jann Wenner, the left-wing media mogul who publishes Palin-bashing Us Weekly and Obama-deifying Rolling Stone magazine, is at it again.
I have received several reports that MichelleMalkin.com readers or their family members have received free, unsolicited copies of the latest Oct. 2 Rolling Stone issue in their mailboxes. The latest issue just happens to have the headline “The Lies of Sarah Palin” splashed all over it. An excerpt of the PDS-infected Matt Taibbi’s screed:
Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she’s a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove. But more than that, she is a horrifying symbol of how little we ask for in return for the total surrender of our political power. Not only is Sarah Palin a fraud, she’s the tawdriest, most half-assed fraud imaginable, 20 floors below the lowest common denominator, a character too dumb even for daytime TV — and this country is going to eat her up, cheering her every step of the way. All because most Americans no longer have the base energy to do anything but lie back and allow ourselves to be jacked off by the calculating thieves who run this grasping consumer paradise we call a nation…
…She appeared to be completely without shame and utterly full of shit, awing a room full of hardened reporters with her sickly-sweet line about the high-school-flame-turned-hubby who “five children later,” is “still my guy.” It was like watching Gidget address the Reichstag.
Obama cultist Jann Wenner is desperately clogging mailboxes, giving this crap away. And it seems they are targeting young people.
Reader Nancy M. in Virginia e-mails:
Dear Michelle – I was surprised to pull Oct. 2 issue of Rolling Stone magazine out of my mailbox day before yesterday addressed to my 20 year old college daughter. I asked her if she had subscribed and she said no. After the US mag cover and hatchet job on Sarah Palin and knowing same person owns both mags, I think this might be a subtle way to influence young 1st time voters in presidential race. We live in Virginia and I have heard it’s a toss up state. Rolling Stone cover headline says “The Lies of Sarah Palin.” Magazine calls her a “tawdry, half-assed fraud.” The article is disgusting. Was this just a random thing or was the magazine sent unsolicited to quantities of young voters?
Reader Jason in Texas e-mails:
I am a resident of Texas. Today I received a free version of Rollingstone magazine in the mail (with my name). I have never subscribed to the magazine. I have only ever subscribed to the Economist and the Wall Street Journal.
The headline at the top (with a cover of Metallica) says “The Lies of Sarah Palin” — inside a hit piece.
Since the guy that owns the magazine is an Obama supporter – is this legal, so close to an election?
Regards,
Jason
Question: Where did they get the mailing list?
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Update: Reader Steve has some good advice if this piece of trash shows up in your mail…
Advise your readers to mark in big, block letters (use a black Sharpie pen if you have one), across the front of the unsolicited Rolling Stone magazines received: REFUSED. Place the marked item back into the U.S. Mails, at any mailbox including your own, and the USPS will return the magazine to the publisher, at the publisher’s cost in postage.
You’re allowed to do this with any item received that you did not order, request or solicit, with the postage “reversed” to the sender, whether it says “return postage guaranteed,” or not. As Mr. Wenner, a jerk of the highest order, is wont to send things to people unsolicited, he should be inundated with returned issues of his rag all with “Refused” slashed across their covers — just desserts, indeed! [This from a Rolling Stone reader and subscriber back in the early '70's, but not since!].
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Emu lied
Many lies =
onenone?This magazine arrived along with this years nominations for the Rock and Roll hall of Fame, also heavily influenced by Jann Wenner and Rollings Stone. No KISS nomination again….
Look at the bright side. We paid for it what its worth.
Jeez – I guess Rolling Stone also hates America?
Seems like George Will thinks McCain has lost his mind; so now we can add George Will to list of people & organizations that hate America.
Okay since the libs will not play, here is the first from rolling stones (ick). Not Palin never said she sold the jet on ebay, MCCAIN did, who got it wrong. And selling a used ANYTHING usualy means you get less money for it. Only the braindead could miss this yet????
I would say they have a completely irrational hatred of Palin based on lies and half truths. Did you read the article?
Not only can your lie be refuted but I can use the words of the Alaska Democratic Party to do it:
These comments came from an Alaska Democratic Party web page before they deleted it. But the cached copies are available all over the internet.
He is abusing his position and opening his POS magazine for libel. I hope he’s taken to task for it. If it turns up in my mailbox, I will write ‘delivery refused’ and might then rub dogpoo on it before sending it back. If it’s ok for them to send me sh**, it must be ok for me to send it back.
Isn’t this a direct campaign contribution?
Its not just journalism as he is sending it, unsolicited, to people.
I am curious why this isn’t considered a campaign contribution.
Seriously, the magazine is in the bag for Senator Obama. If a private individual did this, it would be considered a campaign contribution.
The FEC should investigate this.
I have a family member who works for a targeted marketing company. Companies use them to market to whatever demographic you can think of. Surfers would get mail marketing from surf shops, for example. Motorcycle enthusiasts would get mail from different motorcycle companies; they would even tailor the mail to be down to the nitty gritty of what kind of motorcycle the person likes and if the person is male or female. It’s very easy to get buy lists of names/addresses according to the demographic you want to reach. Kind of big brother-ish, if you ask me. This is what Rolling Stone probably did. What I wonder about is if THIS kind of targeted “marketing” is legal or just another form of astroturfing.
It may have been mentioned already but…
someone needs to fire up the Photoshop machine and Photoshop the current cover with REFUSED across the picture as Steve suggested.
…as for the article, from what is posted it seems like the typical leftist attack. Lots of name-calling, throw Rove in and an allusion to Nazi’s.
Oh, and some raunchy words since it’s Rolling Stone after all.
But no detail.
Typical
Liberalimmature, child-like creature throwing a tantrum.How can this be reported to the FEC?
Does this edition have the same amount of ad content? Who are the major advertisers and how can they be contacted?
This is a real Fifth Column offensive in my opinion.
How can this be reported to the FEC?
Does this edition have the same amount of ad content? Who are the major advertisers and how can they be contacted?
This is a real Fifth Column offensive in my opinion.
Seems pretty easy!
mmmmmm There is nothing in or out of the public record to even suggest that Mrs. Palin is a “fraud and a liar”. There is , however, hard evidence that Barak Obama is. Fortunately for your “Party” his media collaborators won’t report on that. But you keep on dreaming you little Sudetenland mountain flower.
Oddly, that’s exactly how I pegged Obama 4 years ago. He’s like a mindless Hollywood conception of what a “great politician” should be – a vapid, empty liberal cliche.
Like father like son…Matt Taibbi is the son of NBC propagandist Mike Taibbi. The rotten apple falls close to the tree.
Point Regulus…
Looks like The Herald Sun also hates America:
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24397630-5012748,00.html
Yeah. Okay. Sure. And what color is the sky in which you find yourself? MM posts about what Øbama does, says and who he associates with. The liberals commit vicious personal attacks with no basis if fact, only their insipid little imaginations. I bet Taibbi needed a cigarette for himself after he wrote that vitriol.
To wit (emphasis mine):
You would have to be drunk on the Democrat KoolAid to swallow this tripe.
I love the fact that they are so scared of Gov. Palin that they’re giving away this trash at their own cost. I also got a big kick out the “REFUSED” idea, but doubt I’ll be seeing a magazine in my mailbox.
As Regulus pointed out, anyone that has a critical eye for an author actually supporting their claims with evidence rather than just spewing vitriol all over the page will instantly recognize this for what it is: an emotionally laden, but otherwise unconvincing editorial.
The lefties will love him for it (as evidenced by many here), but will this convince any independent swing votes? I doubt it. Rolling Stones probably doesn’t much influence music buying patterns of their audience, let alone their voting choices. Only speculation on my part, of course, but the digital age of music has made a periodical like the Rolling Stones far less influential.
Trying to get some attention? How about making some sense. I’m having a little trouble following your “logic”. I guess you think that being critical of Gov. Palin=hating America. I don’t recall anyone here saying that. Of course, it’s ok for libs to make the blanket statement that those who don’t vote for Obama are racists. Is there a point to that conversation noted? So what if they talked about kids. Were you there for the entire conversation? How about the reporter? It drives you and your peers crazy that Gov. Palin isn’t conforming and won’t cave into pressure from the MSM. I am looking forward to hearing more from her.
With respect, are you crazy?
I know this is getting OT, but Metallica is the epitome of the American dream. They started with nothing, earned their way to the top of the heap, and are now reaping the benefits. I fail to see how Metallica is the symbol of everything that is wrong with the United States.
I just find it comical that Werner thinks those 12 year olds who still might pick up a copy of that rag will be interested enough in politics to actually read that tripe. He could not convince women of his lies and filth with the US Weakly debacle, so he is attempting to sway 12 year olds to be against someone he has never met, nor knows anything about.
It is also oh so telling of the maturation level of the trolls on here that actually finds what was written by that tool to be a prime example of good reporting and what a political article in a “major” magazine should be.
The Sophomoric use of insults and language only proves the point of the mental maturity level that this piece was pandering to.
If people are going to Rolling Stone, a “music” periodical that has not been relevant since the day John Lennon was murdered, for political commentary, those same people should really reassess their personal lives and why they are still driving around in beat-up Cameros and wearing old Journey concert shirts and mullets.
I like how they say that GOVERNOR Palin saying she sold the plane on E-Bay was a lie. It is not a lie. She did place the plane on E-Bay for sale. It was PURCHASED in a different manner, however, it was being sold on E-Bay.
Looks like they still haven’t figured out that definition of “Is”.
They certainly targeted the young and impressionable me, many years ago when I was a political fledgling.
I completely missed out on the Reagan years because I was too busy being a miserable left-wing miscreant.
Being a former liberal is like being a former junkie and assh*les like Wenner are the ones peddling this dope to your kids.
It’s really too bad there isn’t a more centrist music & film magazine out there for the rest of us.
Hell, even the leftie rag “LA Weekly” is more factually-balanced than this clown.
I’m still waiting for omu and the list of lies.
Tick tock.
navywife91 – I think he had his list – it was one item long. And we’ve debunked that one so he’s now gone back to the talking points to see what’s next on the list and the teleprompter isn’t working.
conservativesRus
I for one am tired of their swoop and poop tactics. If they can’t back up what they say, we should ignore them. Omu had time to post on other threads today, but not respond or back up what he said on threads from yesterday and this morning. If they didn’t say such ridiculous things, it would be a lot easier to ignore them. I guess that’s why they’re here.
I read the article, there wasn’t anything new. Matt Taibbi said, at least Obama’s campaign was about Tolerance HUH? every time you don’t agree with Obama, you will be called a Racist, I don’t call that tolerant.
“Mad Dog Palin” was stuff I have read all over the internet and regurgitated. The theme is, people will only vote for the relatable candidate, they won’t think deeper then the Ccandidate telling them what they want to hear. So how is that different from the Progressives? It is like Matt Taibbi needs a therapist to explain “Projecting” to him, there are many names for this mirroring. Matt Taibbi, attacking in the person of Sarah Palin, what the subject hates so much in themselves. That is what is behind all the Derangement Syndromes anyway, Bush,Palin ect..the person hates what he recognizes in himself but won’t recognize. In the East, they teach that the Ying and Yang have to be in tension with each other, when one is out of whack you get this kind of “irrational behavior” in the case of the Progressives, it is like mass hysteria. Well they have been drinking from the same poisoned well for years. If Progressives ran Zoos, they would be the ones throwing the poop at the visitors. Doesn’t Matt Taibbi write for the “Smirking Chimp” SMILE.
There was one line in the article, where he calls Palin “a serial baby maker” oh my motherhood the oldest profession LOL! What a lot of nerve that Rustic Alaskan, has running for Public Office in a Free Country. Drive em Crazy Sarah, it’s working.
How about wrapping a dead fish in it before returning? It will smell the same but the symbolism would be unmistakable.
Any comment from Metallica? Do they agree with Rolling Stone? If so, no more money for those guys!
I’m going to say they have no comment. They have gone out of their way in the past to avoid politics.
Who buys this crap?!
I suppose that the Rolling Stone author eventually got to a factual claim or two, but I found remarkable the paragraphs of bald ad hominem attack that was the predicate that MM quoted.
This was a personal, nasty, unsupported attack that had no rational underpinnings.
Crazy. Stupid. Unbalanced (in the medical sense).
In case you’ve forgotten, Matt Taibbi was one of the passengers in Sean Penn’s red-plastic-cup equipped rescue boat that became so famous in the Hurricane Katrina aftermath. That should pretty much tell you everything you need to know about him.
Hit ‘em in the pocketbook by canceling or not subscribing to begin with. This makes a stand without doing anything that any reasonable person could describe as “censorship”.
For the record, those of you thinking you’ll stick it to Rolling Stone by returning the mag postage due, it doesn’t work like that. Periodical postage rates include return postage. The ‘zine will just go back to them. It won’t cost them extra.
Also, just for your information, you cannot return just any piece of mail postage due. The mail piece must be either first or second class or if standard (bulk) rate it must have return postage guaranteed, return service requested, or electronic service requested printed on the piece by the mailer to insure it’s return.
Now you know.
Simply put…I read the article and it was disgusting. Way beyond the normal lunacy of the magazine. I doubt I will ever pick it up again.
Are you stoned or stupid?
ECS
Both of them?
It’s ironic that you use edelweiss for your username since it was a symbol of Austrian resistance to the Nazis while you support a party using Nazi-like demonization, intimidation, and the cult of “Der Fuerher,”…I mean, “the leader.”
ECS