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Palin Makes Cover of Mother Jones…As 50 ft. Woman

Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:00pm by Jonathon M. Seidl
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The latest issue of the liberal magazine Mother Jones has a surprising cover woman: staunch conservative Sarah Palin. But before you go wondering if “MoJo” has flipped sides, hold all judgment until you see the cover:

The pictures is supposed to be a variation on that old-time “classic” film Attack of the 50-Foot Woman. In case you forgot about what that 1958 gem is about, IMDB jogs your memory:

When an abused wife grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after cheating husband with revenge on her mind.

Here’s the original poster:

The original trailer:

The 1993 remake (which includes a Baldwin brother):

And Mother Jones’s explanation of the cover:

It‘s not that there aren’t enough clues on the cover of the new issue of Mother Jones—the headline, for one—but since you asked: Yes, that is a full-throated homage to the B movie classic Attack of the 50-Foot Woman. If you’re like us, your knowledge of American cinema doesn’t extend to the full plot of this 1958 gem, but suffice to say that it involves a wealthy heiress, Nancy Archer, who after an encounter with an alien is found on the roof of her pool house and soon grows into a giantess. She goes searching for her no-good husband and his mistress, Honey Parker (!), and mayhem ensues. We liked the image because of the subtle historical echoes and… oh, who are we kidding: We liked it because the poster is awesome. (The echoes, though, are there: 1958 was an election year, in a recession, that dealt President Eisenhower’s party a big string of defeats and launched the Senate careers of, among others, Gene McCarthy, Robert Byrd, and Edmund Muskie.)

It’s all so clear now: Sarah Palin is an angry, larger-than-life woman. Got it.

(H/T: Weasel Zippers)

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Jimt
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 1:21pm
Sarah Palin has a long record of achievement and experience in public office.Prior her election as Governor, Palin served two terms on the Wasilla City Council and two terms as the mayor of Wasilla. During her tenure, she reduced property tax levels while increasing services and made Wasilla a business-friendly environment, drawing in new industry.

If you want to talk about her tenure in AK, you may want to consider her balanced budgets. She left the state with an $8 billion rainy day fund and a $1 billion education fund and a budget smaller than her predecessor’s. She broke up the Corrupt B*stards Club of Republican politicians and oil company execs than ran Alaska and reset the system used for reimbursing Alaska for the use of its resources. Then there’s the gas pipeline that was talked about for decades and she got passed. How did she do it? She worked with democrats against some Republican opposition, which dispels the myth that she’s some kind of right wing nut case.

During Governor Palin’s first year in office, three of her administrations major proposed pieces of legislation passed—an overhaul of the state’s ethics laws, a competitive process to construct a natural gas pipeline and a restructuring of Alaska’s oil valuation formula.

Governor Palin’s “business experience” comes with the negotiations and dealings she has had with one of the most powerful industries in the world: the energy industry. This includes the negotiations on what will be the largest private infrastructure project in North American history. Governor Palin has successfully negotiated new tax structures, lease deals and other issues that arise in the Alaska energy industry.
At the end of the day, Governor Palin negotiated billion dollar deals with one of the toughest industries in the world.

Sarah Palin is past chair of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, a multistate government agency that promotes the conservation and efficient recovery of domestic oil and natural gas resources while protecting health, safety and the environment. She also served as chair of the National Governors Association (NGA) Natural Resources Committee, which was charged with pursuing legislation to ensure state needs are considered as federal policy is formulated in the areas of agriculture, energy, environmental protection and natural resource management.

Sarah Palin’s successful efforts to stop the cronyism and reform the energy business in Alaska were so impressive Kay Cashman, the publisher and executive editor of Petroleum News, wrote the book entitled: “Sarah Takes On Big Oil” .
This is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the leadership Sarah Palin has exhibited in the area of reforming government and industry!!

While Governor Palin has a history of being a reformer and taking on powerful interests for the benefit of ordinary people, Obama’s history is that of a tool of special interests, be they unions, trial lawyers, ACORN, or Wall Street.
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- ClockKing
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 2:14pm
  NO one, and I mean no one, has been able to tell me what Obama accomplished as a lawyer or community organizer. Before he was a senator, I don’t of anyone who knew of him. Heck, at least with Jesse Jackson, you can point to what he built or got pushed through.
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heavyduty
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 1:21pm
Why is it all the liberals can ever do is attack and ridicule the Republicans. They are such little children. How can we ever let them back in power anymore. They have no self-esteem, they have no courage, they have self-respect for themselves.
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FSUDAVE
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 1:15pm
This is just the beginning of Progressive propaganda to build up Palin so she will run in 2012. Watch all the lefty organizations that point out her attributes and if she wins the nominee would turn on a dime and print all negative.
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DMD
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 1:14pm
I bet id you made BarryO King Kong you would be a racist..
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277v
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 1:09pm
Who’s trying to get my money? I have realized almost anything “they” say, just turn it around on them, then you have the truth.
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Marine Recon Dad
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 1:08pm
A 50′ Sarah? How can that be all that bad! That just makes her 10x as powerful.. not to mention sexy
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tess q
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 1:05pm
first we were dumb and now we have voted against our own interest. this list keeps getting longer. the caption that says they are taking your money, good one coming from people that don’t recognize it is your money! has everyone on the left thrown in thier two cents now or are we missing a few of them?
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- untameable-kate
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 3:09pm
  ….and our next speaker is a drunk, don’t forget about that one.
Marylou7
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:56pm
Keep’em fired up Sarah.
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DagneyT
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:55pm
The left is scared to death of Sarah Palin, and I for one of many LOVE IT! They have good reason to be, she is US!
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EPROM
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:55pm
Well, why not have a 50ft. Sarah Palin? …We’ve already got a 500 pound Michael Moore!
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- HUGGINGMYBABIES
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 1:33pm
  (snort!) :D
- dontbotherme
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 8:27pm
  Good One. :D
Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:54pm
Is this another attempt to convince us that breasts cause earthquakes? They made Palin’s more lethal than Pam Andersons!

What happened to Mother Jones? It was a relaxing venue I’ve enjoyed over many years. Can’t go anywhere without everyone thinking they are experienced political analysts.

Shut up and sing!
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Enuff Zenuff
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:52pm
This fits right in with the left’s firm belief that there really IS a Santa Claus!
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GBRinMN
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:51pm
Ok, so on one side it says “..citizenry votes against it’s own self interest“ but on the other ”they are taking away YOUR money” But I thought it was against my own self interest? It sounds as if I am getting someone else’s money? I thought that was a good thing–at least in a socialist/communist worldview. Mother Jones seems to be confused about her own ideology. As the kids would say, Mother Jones FAIL.
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- smokie
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 1:09pm
  Noticed that myself, the mental inconsistencies. Palin holds no office am I right? She’s just another citizen?
  Is not she just some lady with a travelogue show about Alaska?
Pawsupday
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:48pm
But she’s still HOT!!!!! With cover art like that who really reads the words??? Oh yea…the guy‘s in the basement of their mom’s house reading all comic books! SHE’S STILL HOT!!! :)))
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byehlik
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:47pm
Mother who?
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- Lesterp
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 3:53pm
  Gotta say, I have no clue!
EP46
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:46pm
It will take a lot more than their sarcasm to diminish Sarah………oh, they are so jealous of her it is sad! Just another example of ‘little bitty minds’.
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- Eagle07
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 4:37pm
  Could you imagine the fallout if that was the Flotus they did that to.Palin hasn’t ran for anything in over 18 mos.Just shows you they are afraid of her.
- UrsaMajor
  Posted on November 9, 2010 at 12:25am
  Heck, 18 months is nothing. W hasn‘t run for office in over half a decade and they’re STILL campaigning against him… not mention Ronaldus Magnus! I wouldn’t be suprised to see the DNC run an anti-Calvin Coolidge political ad in 2012.
Bill Wallace
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:42pm
At least they drew her to look attractive. Sarah is very attractive.
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sWampy
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:42pm
Middle class hurting itself? I don‘t know of a single liberal policy that isn’t aimed directly at hurting the middle class, while transferring wealth to the rich and enlarging the number of poor.
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- Marylou7
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:54pm
  Oh sooooo true!
- HUGGINGMYBABIES
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 1:32pm
  You’re spot on!
MrButcher
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:39pm
I find it odd that liberals take issue with voters who “vote against their own self-interest.” Isn’t that the definition of sacrifice and selfless behavior? what’s wrong with that?

Would they prefer we vote only for our own self-centered and greedy needs?

And why do they not find fault with rich liberals who vote against their own self interest by electing individuals who will raise their taxes?

Intelectual consitency is very hard to come by now-a-days.
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- sWampy
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:48pm
  The left never raise taxes on the truly rich, they raise taxes of the middle class, there are always loop holes that allow the truly rich to hide their income in trusts, foundations, bogus corporations, etc.
- MrButcher
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:56pm
  touche’
- HUGGINGMYBABIES
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 1:26pm
  Look at the tax base as a huge bell curve. You have the wealthy on the one end and the
  poor on the other…..if you want to spend gobs of someone else’s money, you need a steady stream of dependable income……you can tax the front half (wealthy) until they meld into the middle of the curve (or leave it all together)……at the middle of the curve the idea is that you can tax at smaller rates and you will have a consistently LARGE segment of the population who will share that burden without shinking or expanding rapidly. With spending what it is…..the ONLY way to pay the piper is to start with the LARGE masses in the middle.
takingonissues.com
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:39pm
Another example of how the liberals are running scared………..gotta love it.
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- starman70
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 7:25pm
  Too bad she isn’t 50 feet tall, maybe then she could squash some Washington cockroaches underfoot.
LastManStanding1
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:38pm
Too Funny..Mockery is the greatest form of flattery!
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faktchekr
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:37pm
whatever….the left might want to try backing their absurd cartoons and headlines with actual facts…inconvenient as they are…facts go a long way to actually convincing people that you’re right.
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- untameable-kate
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:56pm
  You’re silly, you know the left doesn’t give a crap about facts, if they did they wouldn’t be able to bring themselves to spout thier crap. They have no arguement if they have to have facts to base thir vitriol on.
- DagneyT
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 1:06pm
  Ever try to talk to a liberal? Present them with facts, they call you a liar. Use common sense, they get abusive. Try logic, they go ballistic! As the saying goes, Irritate a Liberal, [insert any of the previously mentioned]
- untameable-kate
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 1:26pm
  Yeah, I get yelled at alot by ‘them’.
untameable-kate
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:35pm
Wow Sarah looks hot on that cover, if the left wanted to make her look bad they missed the mark.
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- GJPinks
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 1:09pm
  It’s because at their heart, they don’t know how to use a gun… Proper aim takes regular practice.
- M31Sailor
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 2:04pm
  Hubba, Hubba
CHOW
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:34pm
Hmm. It would be perfect if it were set in downtown Wash. DC.
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- A1955Rosie
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 3:57pm
  Yes indeed. Wow what a legacy of stories to tell the generations. Although Sarah carries this off more flattering than say napalitano… she’s going to have kids laughing for generations about great great grandma.
HillBillySam1
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:29pm
I Love Mother Jones magazine…..the pages are almost as soft as Charmin and they are much softer than the pages from The Nation…….
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- RightWrite
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 12:37pm
  If we only had a fifty foot Sarah to go after the Obama regime and Progressives — and at fifty feet, more Sarah to love.
- HUGGINGMYBABIES
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 1:11pm
  Wow that’s almost as factual a headline as the NYT! Man she’s HAWT :D I think I just heard a collective “schwing” from the pants on the left…..you know they wanted her on their side!
- Beckofile
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 1:28pm
  Palin can’t take my money. Only the government seems to be stealing from us? Inflation is a hidden tax and will crush the middle class.
- shane2813
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 3:12pm
  Lmao! Lol
- Frameman
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 3:59pm
  Looks like Sarah’s body with the head of Nanny Madusa
- 101
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 5:39pm
  Obama is coming out on the side of milk cartons depicting the 1957 film “The Incredible Shrinking Man”
- adifftake
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 6:34pm
  Hillbillysam, Perhaps you should consider keeping your privates time private and not share with the rest of us? No I didn’t mispell privates.
- Fear The Voices
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 6:50pm
  TOBYWIL2 – Nailed it!
  
  Mother Jones is another media tool of geOGRE Soros & associates, and as such it will use the approved tactics of picking a target and isolating it for smear, slander, and outright lies. After all, when you don’t have fact or truth on your side, what do you have left to fight with?
- dontbotherme
  Posted on November 8, 2010 at 8:22pm
  You are sooo funny! :)
- 229Mick
  Posted on November 9, 2010 at 11:59pm
  HillBillySam1: So you like your toilet paper with crap already on it or what?!?!?
- Spookytruck
  Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:39am
  @229MICK
  
  That is too funny. I was thinking the same thing and as I scrolled down the page, there it was. I guess great minds think alike.

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