Magazine industry rewards Obama cult worship
Every year, the Magazine Publishers of America rewards the creative talents who design covers for leading publications.
There are awards for sports covers, lifestyle covers, celebrity covers, science covers, and news covers.
This year, the MPA created a special new category:
The winner? Obama cultist Jan Wenner’s Rolling Stone:

Here’s what the judges said about the cover:
Rolling Stone, July 10-24, 2008
The smile says it all. Photographer Peter Yang caught up with Barack Obama in Raleigh, North Carolina, just a few days after he had finally nailed down the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Obama was exhausted, excited, relaxed, gracious, open–yet still somehow elusive. Hundreds of photographers have shot Obama over the past couple of years, but no one has quite caught his quiet charisma as Peter Yang did last June.
Really? Didn’t we see a gazillion, halo-encircled hagiographic photos capturing the “quiet charisma” and ineffable glow over the last two years?
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Nope, the satiric New Yorker cover that got the Obamas all wee wee’d up didn’t make the finalist list.
But an Entertainment Weekly satire of the New Yorker satire did.
‘Cuz Obama was cool with that.
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As Lincoln said, some of the people can indeed be fooled all of the time. Willful ignorance is never a defense.
Perhaps its this photgraph which helped the Obamination clinch the Nobel Proze?
Oh, it’s just so…grotty.
I haven’t seen this kind of behaviour since the collective bj America gave W. Clinton.
yuck.
Someone thought this was the best? This is probably the most unflattering photo I’ve ever seen of him! It looks like a real-life caricature! (Although I suppose one could argue that Obama IS a real-life caricature…)
Just like giving the Peace Prize to Pres Obama, it says more about the Nobel Prize Committee, and this says more about the Magazine Publishers.
This is silly.
Perhaps he’ll win stool sample of the year award next.
You know, I really thought this had to be a joke when I first read it … of course I am so woefully ignorant that I believed the same thing about the Noballs Peace Prize too … but looking back and seeing what he said, looking at the here and now and seeing what has been done and looking forward to what they hope to accomplish, it seriously does seem that any of the covers depicting him in his chairman Mao, raised chin, smug attitude photos would have been much more appropriate.
Same sissy smile that so many male clothes models have in catalogs…they look like they just passed gas in front of folks at a party.
I see an ear with a head attached to it
You couldn’t make this stuff up. When you think you’ve seen it all, something even dumber comes along.
Wow! Sure didn’t see this coming
/sarc
Soon, like Stalin and Saddam, people will applaud Obaam continously until directed to stop for fear that they will be the first to stop applauding the Dear Leader.
These people are lemmings.
ROFLMAO
There went my biscuts & gravy.
How did this photo win. IOt had no glimmering pecs exposed?
And………….
Jughead has been awarded all the Gold medals from the Rio Olympics just for being Jughaid……….
When will he do Cialis commercials?
jangar said:
Can I say his over inflated head is turgid enough already?
Yes, you may. But don’t go any further…stomach can’t take it.
BINGO!!!
We have a winner!!!
Kudos to you!
This is starting to get just a WEE LITTLE BIT out of hand!
When will Obamunism try to register as a religion?
jangar said:
Lol I am still laughing — feels good to laugh once and awhile.
…with Chris Matthews in the bathtub on the beach scene
He seriously creeps me out when he smiles.
Why? They’re already exempt from taxes.
The juvenile humor side of me…plenty more where that comes from.
I guess we’ll know that it’s really getting out of hand when the National Enquirer starts running photos of the potato that looks like Obama, or the grilled cheese sandwich with Obama’s likeness in it.
Hell you guys took all the good ideas. I am still busy debunking joel…
He went all the way back to 2004 and the whole “self inflicted wound” thing with kerry.
BTW updates on joels attempts to attack Mrs Malkin will be forth coming.
The MSM has a stained blazer hanging in its closet…..
I have an awesome picture I took of Obama drinking Aquafina.
It was a very touching moment because it showed he is just like you and me, at least in the sense that he too needs water to sustain his life.
When was it…couple of weeks ago I think…Walgreens got spanked for selling Obama Chia Head.
He pees like me too. So what.
Thats not TRUE its only a right wing myth that Lord Obama is human!!! He is divine!!!
Beg for forgiveness heathen scum!!!
/Red state bigot mode off.
I guess its also possible he was using the bottle simply as a spit cup for the wad of skoal in his mouth.
He doesn’t drink it, but walks on it.
And I do not think that I can ever get over that.
Oh, by the way, our troops are still dying in Afghanistan while you are still fretting over poll figures. When are you going to make up your mind dude?
When are you going to
MAKE
UP
YOUR
MIND?
DUDE?
Get it right heathen!!!
Bow before ZOD, I mean OBAMA!!!
Bitter liberals, clinging to their Obamas and magazine covers.
It just breaks my heart to see people, far and wide, idol worship this man, and to be so blind as to believe that he has answers for today’s complex problems. A sad, sad day for America.
Ohhhh….
Here’s one of him giving the old “Sieg Heil!”
It looks like he’s got his eyes closed. I guess that’s the only way he can convince himself of his false rhetoric. If he doesn’t see the lies, they must not be lies.
Next comes the little plastic Obama on the dashboard
chap, clearly that was him blessing the masses and healing the sick. Lord Obama the great would never do ANYTHING nazi like at all.
Oh ye of little faith…
I’m surprised one of TIME’s 47 consecutive Obama covers didn’t make it.
I could type an essay about this, but I think I can say two words that aptly describe what is happening here:
Hero Worship
‘Nuff said.
Well, of all those finalists, that picture was the best IMO.
I listed a bunch of new Obama award categories across a number of industries but decided to delete it.
Obama is every where.
I’ve been sick of it for over a year and can’t help but think a large number of his (one time) supporters are too. I can ‘hope’ anyway.
When are we going to see the big statues and full size billboards?That’s part of the stimulus money,right?
Apparently praising Obama as a way to improve ratings isn’t a winning strategy. But if we add an award, it may just keep our egos inflated until the bailouts start or Fairness Doctrine kicks in. Gotta love the media.
Did he turn it into wine first?
I think it should have been the bare chested one, leg tingles for everyone…
At least he’d be relateable.
Sitting down?
Just wondering, Does the big O take walks on the Potomic?
I swear that ear was photoshopped for reduction or his head was enlarged! No way that ear is in scale!
Imus and Chris Wallace discussing the White House giving Fox News Channel the Cold Shoulder.
Is MSNBC nervous about Mourning Joe?
Imus, I can see MSNBC from my window.
Y’know, with that grimace, if somebody with better Photoshop skills than I gave that image a “Joker-ification” make-over, it would look pretty good.
Well, as the Kwisatz Haderach, not only can he bend space, but he should be able to collect that water from the worms…
spacey: Love hearing that term again, grotty.
I assume you are using it in the context of grotesque?
“Yes, the one who can be many places at once: the Kwisatz Haderach. Many men have tried the drug . . . so many, but none has succeeded.”
“They tried and failed, all of them?”
“Oh, no.” She shook her head. “They tried and died.”
Paul Atreides and Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, on the subject of men undergoing the spice trance.
Bless the Maker and all His Water. Bless the coming and going of Him, May His passing cleanse the world. May He keep the world for his people.
No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.
Pardot Kynes to Liet-Kynes
Kingfish; yes, grotesque.
Rogue, if his #1 is the water of life, then his #2 must be the spice?
ewww
Sometimes I just think we are screwed…
That’s not water, you dolt. It’s vodka.
He’s not drinking from the bottle, he’s filling it for a thristy member of the media.
Of course spelling thirsty correctly would help…
Perhaps. Who here among us has NOT filled a water bottle with vodka?
Ah, the spice melange!
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
The First Law of Mentat, quoted by Paul Atreides to Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
The redneck section. They fill water bottles with corn sqeeze.
Seeing the Voluntary State Media congratulating one another for who can take the most flattering pic of Hope-a-Dope is like watching the Naked Emperor’s palace guards having a contest for who can write the best fashion review.
But when the Potemkin Candidate becomes the Potemkin President, image continues to be everything.
chap, are you waiting for me to respond?
Of course I have done this. Many times. (With gin as well)
I used to laugh at the pictures of Generals in the Soviet Union, standing all puffed up in their uniforms festooned with medals and ribbons from shoulder to waist looking like buffoons. I wondered if those decorations covered such things as still being able to move their bowels, and finding their way to their office.
Obama’s collection is already starting to resemble those…
Geez, Chappie, were you part of Obeyme’s campaign team? The pics you posted seem to be at a very close range. Maybe you are secretly Secret Service – ha!
I was about 10 yards away, with a good lens on the camera.
Waited about 3 and a half hours in this to get inside and then another hour and 45 minutes before he spoke.
Wouldn’t do it again.
God has not finished filling his head with brains…the funnel is still there.
And the COVER UP OF THE YEAR award goes to the legacy media for refusing to print anything negative about Obama or his Czars.
Chap, you are a die-hard Obamist – who knew? Short of the second coming, there is no way I’m standing in that snow and cold to hear any politician speak…gag…who wants to be frozen while listening to lies? Gotta admire your grit though.
Please. I am from the freaking snow belt. I had to stand in temps a lot colder and snow a lot higher just to get to my mailbox growing up.