The Brutal Truth
July 15th, 2008 - 9:35 am
We may not always agree — far from it. But I like Jonathan Alter. Really I do. Which is why I haven’t said anything about this for months. But after reading his latest for Newsweek, I just had to say something.
Jon: Your new head shot makes you look like a used, angry Q-Tip. The combover has got to go, OK? But, please, keep up the great work. You’re one of the few decent things left at Newsweek — except for that head shot, of course.
Mr. Alter may be worthy of respect, but his “friend”, Paul, is an idiot. Mr. Alter shoots down rumors which have nothing to do with anything.
His stepfather sent him to a Muslim school (false). Who cares? Why would a life long Democrat (Paul), be undecided who to vote for based on this, true, false or unknown?
His father gave him the Muslim name Barack Hussein Obama. (true) Again, who cares? Is there really anybody out there who is having trouble deciding who to vote for based on knowing the answer to this? Yikes.
He changed his first name to Barry, and when he got into politics, he changed it back to Barack Hussein Obama. (false) Yada, Yada, Yada. Hillary Rodham Clinton should have inoculated pretty much anybody to this sort of attack. Didn’t she?
Barack’s step-brother stated, “Barack is a Muslim.” (Unknown). And Jimmy had brother Billy. A lot of politicians have “embarrassing” relatives. Again, are there really people out there whose minds will be made up by this information? Yikes squared.
I think the only people liable to care about these rumors are people who aren’t likely to vote for Mr. Obama anyway.
I just think Mr. Obama should be required to version himself, like software, so you can decide who to vote for.
McCain (R)
Obama v1 (D)
Obama v2 (D)
Obama v3 ….etc
Alter is clearly not ready for his close-up.
Really hideous. The Kramer of his magazine.
It seems like his hair never grew back properly following his chemotherapy.
Maybe it will, eventually. Meanwhile, I’d give him a pass on the fashion front.
I think he actually likes the combover. Why else does he flash that come hither look like some hirsute silver daddy walking into a twink bar?
It occurs to me that Newsweek is using that photo to embarrass Mr. Alter into leaving.