Newsweek Has Anti-Obama Cover, Gets Big Jump in Sales

by Jeff Davis

Most Americans gave up on Newsweek as yet another biased arm of the mainstream media decades ago. In a stunning surprise move, Newsweek has run an article on its cover highly critical of Barack Obama. Adage.com notes “The early read on sales suggests the issue could double Newsweek’s newsstand average, MagNet said. It’s also on track to land among the title’s top three newsstand sellers since 2010, according to MagNet data.” Obviously, people are more willing to buy a magazine when they see something they agree with on the cover and a lot of Americans wanted to read the anti-Obama story on Newsweek’s cover.



The article by Niall Ferguson reports “In his inaugural address, Obama promised ‘not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth.’ He promised to ‘build the roads and bridges, the electric grids, and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together.’ He promised to ‘restore science to its rightful place and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost.’ And he promised to ‘transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age.’ Unfortunately the president’s scorecard on every single one of those bold pledges is pitiful…”

“[T]he total number of private-sector jobs is still 4.3 million below the January 2008 peak. Meanwhile, since 2008, a staggering 3.6 million Americans have been added to Social Security’s disability insurance program. This is one of many ways unemployment is being concealed.”

“In his fiscal year 2010 budget—the first he presented—the president envisaged growth of 3.2 percent in 2010, 4.0 percent in 2011, 4.6 percent in 2012. The actual numbers were 2.4 percent in 2010 and 1.8 percent in 2011; few forecasters now expect it to be much above 2.3 percent this year.”

“Unemployment was supposed to be 6 percent by now. It has averaged 8.2 percent this year so far. Meanwhile real median annual household income has dropped more than 5 percent since June 2009. Nearly 110 million individuals received a welfare benefit in 2011, mostly Medicaid or food stamps.”

Ferguson is doing the one thing that Obama supporters can’t deal with. He’s actually listing Obama’s promises and failures one by one. Most Americans know the economy is in a severe slump, but a stark listing of his goals and his failures is truly overwhelming.

Obama promised to promote science, but he has presided over the down-sizing of NASA, which is the most visible science program sponsored by the US. The Shuttle fleet was retired in 2011 and American astronauts can only get to the International space station on Russian rockets. Shortly before he died, Neil Armstrong referred to Obama’s plan for NASA as “devastating”.

Barack Obama has mightily upset his liberal base by refusing to deliver a European-style social welfare state on a platter, which is what was expected of him, and also through his incompetence which has become so obvious as to be embarrassing, including one incident where he was literally unable to address a class of third graders without a teleprompter.

It is possible that Obama may lose enough of his base due to liberal and moderate disenchantment with him to put Romney over the top in November—assuming that the votes are counted honestly. This wouldn’t be the first time that a Black was hired and then months down the road, “quota-hire fatigue” sets in as the management realizes that the number of mistakes and blunders are just too many to ignore and that the company needs to find a replacement, who is able to do the job.