I can never tell how much of what passes for journalism these days is actually intentional self-parody. For example, a Los Angeles Times reporter points to a Newsweek cover photo of Sarah Palin with a gun, and asks:
Hey, is that even the right way to hold a rifle? Can't you shoot your foot off like that?What follows is an especially entertaining collection of comments, many of which make the same point (along with the fact that the reporter clearly lacks enough knowledge to be asking a question like that):
Just wondering.
For those of you are part of the liberal intelligentsia, worshiping at your Obamessiah altars daily, and don't understand why the rest of us find this astonishing ignorance so funny, let me put it in terms that you might understand.I don't have a problem with Newsweek's use of a stock photo, as long as it isn't doctored.
It would be physically impossible for Governor Palin to shoot that rifle in that position, for three reasons:
1. She cannot reach the trigger without shifting her grip.
2. She has the breech open, so the firing pin cannot make contact with any rounds in the chamber.
3. She's not holding a rifle. It's a shotgun.
Someone finds a photograph of McCain, taken a long, long time ago, using an IBM Selectric typewriter, and fails to notice that McCain is much younger in the picture. A journalist looks at it, and asks, "Boy, what a weird laptop he's using."
