Track-A-’Crat: The Roll Call of Democratic Delinquency

Right then, here is pretty much the final installment of my scientific investigation into the TIME/Newsweek-Obama/Bush covers phenomenon.

And I can safely report that the findings conform to the pattern established earlier: namely, that President Bush was consistently treated like a leper, while President Obama (pbuh) receives the all-star treatment.

Some choice Newsweek-Bush covers include the wonderfully objective titles of, “Bush’s $87 Billion Mess“, “The Price of Denial“, “How Much Power Should They Have?“, “Will Bush Listen?” and the awesomely condescending “Father Knows Best.”

To recap, here is the gallery of Newsweek Obama covers.

Here is the gallery of TIME Obama covers.

And here is the gallery of TIME Bush covers.

Now I’m pretty sure that the TIME covers for both men are up to date, seeing as how the TIME website provides a handy feature to browse their archives by cover.  But the Newsweek site (kinda stupidly) has no such facility, so while I think that my collages are just about complete, I’m not entirely certain.  If you know of a cover that I’ve missed, please let me know!

This labor of love (or flogging a dead horse, depending on how you look at it) is just about over, bar the monthly updates when TIME and Newsweek are obliged to publish tributes to Barry in order to meet their annual worship quota.

All that remains – and here is where some creativity is key – is to decide what to do with these galleries.  I’m thinking that they’d make for fairly appropriate wallpaper for some people, Christmas cards for others and toilet paper for an increasingly large slice of the populace.

I await your suggestions…

Apologies all for the relative dearth of posts and responses to your comments over these past few days.  That was due to work kicking my behind, in addition to a super-secret something or other that I can’t tell you about.

Don’t you just hate it when people do that?  Could I have been any more cryptic?  I might as well have not said anything, right?  But where would be the fun in that?

Anyway, can you believe that Newsweek has had more Barry/Barrette covers (30) than even TIME Magazine (28)?  And this might not even be all of them, but it took me ages to find and format this many, so that’s yer lot for now.

Enjoy your weekend!

According to Newsweek’s Evan Thomas in the clip above, Obama’s “sort of God.”

That’s an exact, word-for-word quotation.  No paraphrasing.  And no “context” can explain away that mindless a statement.

I’m not going to spend any more time on this post, as I don’t want to irretrievably ruin the rest of my Sunday and mocking Thomas is pointless.  If the man is comfortable saying things like that live on national television, then he’s clearly impervious to anything that I might write about his window-licking stupidity.

The TIME-Newsweek-MSNBC-ABC-CNN-CBS-NPR competition over who can be the most nauseating in their propaganda on behalf of the Greatest President Ever has just gone into overdrive.

Trying…. not to gag…. Newsweek coverage…. making me sick….

Tell you what, Newsweek, sycophantic coverage of President Obama and everything in his extended orbit is not going to boost your sales: it is making your publication a laughing stock (although TIME Magazine’s still way out in front in that regard).

Particularly statements like this one: Desiree Rogers (the White House social secretary),

is at once sociable and cool, not unlike the Obamas.

Gahhhhhhhhh!