Just in case you wanted to know if our newly-minted Miss America, Teresa Scanlan, thinks the Michelle Bachmann Newsweek cover is sexist, here you have it:
“I absolutely think so. Not because there’s a difference of political opinions there, but because Newsweek has had other candidates who they haven’t agreed with — they’ve had Rush Limbaugh on the cover, they had former candidates [Mike] Huckabee and [John] McCain on their covers –- and whenever they have a male on their cover, even if they don’t agree with them as far as policy goes, they portray them in a serious light, they take them seriously and they portray them in a positive light. Then, as we saw two years ago with the Sarah Palin cover in her running shorts, and then now with Michele Bachmann. They simply try to degrade women and make fun of them and portray them in a negative light — and I think that shows extreme sexism.”
I’ve seen this comment get thrown around a lot