The increasingly desperate, irrelevant, and ridiculous Newsweek (their editor is the one that called Obama "a god" you might recall) tried to defend using a photo of Sarah Palin from a running magazine on their cover to a skeptical Matt Lauer. It didn't go well and raised more questions than it answered:
MATT LAUER: Tina Brown is editor-in-chief of the Web site The Daily Beast, Dan Klaidman is the managing editor for Newsweek magazine. Good morning to both of you.
TINA BROWN, THE DAILY BEAST: Good morning.
DAN KLAIDMAN, NEWSWEEK: Good morning...
LAUER: Tina, let me ask you a question that's probably impossible to answer, but do you imagine that there was a meeting somewhere at Newsweek with these smart people, where there were a few chuckles as they chose this photo and said, you know what, for all she's trying to do, this is gonna cut her off at the knees a little bit?
BROWN: Well, I certainly hope so.