Rolling Stone Cover

[8manpick]

eff. He is really hot. Can't blame RS on this one. Sex sells and America is buying

[Super PurpleCat]

It's about context.  The cover of the Rolling Stone is different than the cover of the Manhattan Mercury.  Some stupid 70s band even wrote a song about it once.

[felix rex]

It's like RS is just trying to sell more magazines rather than just provide me with important music information.

[felix rex]

Can you imagine if someone found like a shirtless glamour shot of bin laden? I would be offended if it wasn't on the cover of every publication, including GQ. Or maybe like a pic of him lifting himself out of the pool with his hair all slicked back. That's a Men's Health "caveman diet" cover right there, no question.

[OK_Cat]

"free market"

- FFF

[michigancat]

It's about context.  The cover of the Rolling Stone is different than the cover of the Manhattan Mercury.  Some stupid 70s band even wrote a song about it once.

It's like RS is just trying to sell more magazines rather than just provide me with important music information.

How quickly we forget that Obama killed a guy for his article in RS. And it wasn't a feature on Justin Timberlake.

[steve dave]

Can you imagine if someone found like a shirtless glamour shot of bin laden? I would be offended if it wasn't on the cover of every publication, including GQ. Or maybe like a pic of him lifting himself out of the pool with his hair all slicked back. That's a Men's Health "caveman diet" cover right there, no question.

Actual real life thing:

Whenever al-Qaeda organised games of volleyball, Atef and Bin Laden were forced to be on separate teams since they were both tall, and good players.[14]

Bergen, Peter. "The Osama bin Laden I Know", 2006

[420seriouscat69]

Welp! http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/18/us/massachusetts-tsarnaev-photos/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[OK_Cat]

Welp! http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/18/us/massachusetts-tsarnaev-photos/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

nice one fanning, never seen those before.  nope.  not even on this page.

[Tobias]

Welp! http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/18/us/massachusetts-tsarnaev-photos/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

nice one fanning, never seen those before.  nope.  not even on this page.

have you ever seen them posted... by fanning?

[felix rex]

Can you imagine if someone found like a shirtless glamour shot of bin laden? I would be offended if it wasn't on the cover of every publication, including GQ. Or maybe like a pic of him lifting himself out of the pool with his hair all slicked back. That's a Men's Health "caveman diet" cover right there, no question.

Actual real life thing:

Whenever al-Qaeda organised games of volleyball, Atef and Bin Laden were forced to be on separate teams since they were both tall, and good players.[14]

Bergen, Peter. "The Osama bin Laden I Know", 2006

that's amazing. I mean, can you imagine them fighting about picking teams and UBL talking trash after blocking someone else's crap at the net?

[felix rex]

Welp! http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/18/us/massachusetts-tsarnaev-photos/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

nice one fanning, never seen those before.  nope.  not even on this page.

have you ever seen them posted... by fanning?

I once dated a girl who just texted me and said I would look "hot" like Jahar if I grew my hair out

[OK_Cat]

Can you imagine if someone found like a shirtless glamour shot of bin laden? I would be offended if it wasn't on the cover of every publication, including GQ. Or maybe like a pic of him lifting himself out of the pool with his hair all slicked back. That's a Men's Health "caveman diet" cover right there, no question.

Actual real life thing:

Whenever al-Qaeda organised games of volleyball, Atef and Bin Laden were forced to be on separate teams since they were both tall, and good players.[14]

Bergen, Peter. "The Osama bin Laden I Know", 2006

that's amazing. I mean, can you imagine them fighting about picking teams and UBL talking trash after blocking someone else's crap at the net?

"Get out of here with that weak George Bush action, Abdul!"  (wags finger like dikembe)

[Pett]

Can you imagine if someone found like a shirtless glamour shot of bin laden? I would be offended if it wasn't on the cover of every publication, including GQ. Or maybe like a pic of him lifting himself out of the pool with his hair all slicked back. That's a Men's Health "caveman diet" cover right there, no question.

Actual real life thing:

Whenever al-Qaeda organised games of volleyball, Atef and Bin Laden were forced to be on separate teams since they were both tall, and good players.[14]

Bergen, Peter. "The Osama bin Laden I Know", 2006

that's amazing. I mean, can you imagine them fighting about picking teams and UBL talking trash after blocking someone else's crap at the net?

"Get out of here with that weak George Bush action, Abdul!"  (wags finger like dikembe)

Other terrorists on the winning side, "Durka durka durka durka."

[AbeFroman]

When I saw the cover my immediate reaction was

"Looks like Rolling Stone did an article about the guy who helped do the bombings"

I don't understand the thought process of people that turn everything into a partisan/cultural issue.

[bubbles4ksu]

When I saw the cover my immediate reaction was

"Looks like Rolling Stone did an article about the guy who helped do the bombings"

I don't understand the thought process of people that turn everything into a partisan/cultural issue.

i guess i have a stronger reaction toward the guy who did the bombings than you do. i thought to myself, "hey, there's that weak-minded piece of crap who killed some people because he felt like he didn't belong."

[OK_Cat]

When I saw the cover my immediate reaction was

"Looks like Rolling Stone did an article about the guy who helped do the bombings"

I don't understand the thought process of people that turn everything into a partisan/cultural issue.

i guess i have a stronger reaction toward the guy who did the bombings than you do. i thought to myself, "hey, there's that weak-minded piece of crap who killed some people because he felt like he didn't belong."

the cover called him a monster, dummy. 

[j-dub]

Welp! http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/18/us/massachusetts-tsarnaev-photos/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

nice one fanning, never seen those before.  nope.  not even on this page.

have you ever seen them posted... by fanning?

I once dated a girl who just texted me and said I would look "hot" like Jahar if I grew my hair out

not with that quickly advancing forehead. t's and p's bud.

[bubbles4ksu]

When I saw the cover my immediate reaction was

"Looks like Rolling Stone did an article about the guy who helped do the bombings"

I don't understand the thought process of people that turn everything into a partisan/cultural issue.

i guess i have a stronger reaction toward the guy who did the bombings than you do. i thought to myself, "hey, there's that weak-minded piece of crap who killed some people because he felt like he didn't belong."

the cover called him a monster, dummy.

a picture is worth a lot of words. the cover also mentioned that his home life wasn't perfect. that sucks that his parents weren't great. can't blame the handsome youth for doing what he did, if you really think about it.

[OK_Cat]

When I saw the cover my immediate reaction was

"Looks like Rolling Stone did an article about the guy who helped do the bombings"

I don't understand the thought process of people that turn everything into a partisan/cultural issue.

i guess i have a stronger reaction toward the guy who did the bombings than you do. i thought to myself, "hey, there's that weak-minded piece of crap who killed some people because he felt like he didn't belong."

the cover called him a monster, dummy.

a picture is worth a lot of words. the cover also mentioned that his home life wasn't perfect. that sucks that his parents weren't great. can't blame the handsome youth for doing what he did, if you really think about it.

i mean, some of us aren't complete dumbasses and understand that "good people" can get caught up in awful things and make really bad decisions in their life.  it's interesting to find out why.

[AbeFroman]

When I saw the cover my immediate reaction was

"Looks like Rolling Stone did an article about the guy who helped do the bombings"

I don't understand the thought process of people that turn everything into a partisan/cultural issue.

i guess i have a stronger reaction toward the guy who did the bombings than you do. i thought to myself, "hey, there's that weak-minded piece of crap who killed some people because he felt like he didn't belong."

Of course he's a piece of crap and you can think that, I think that too. The cover didn't have a picture of him and say "Look at this kid, please don't think bad things about him". Was the cover supposed to say "This issue: An article about the Boston bomber monster" and have picture of puppy dogs and kittens cuddling together? No, you put a picture of the kid on the cover to match the headline. An actual picture, not the grainy surveillance picture that was all over the news for a week. They probably would have considered using the bloody picture released yesterday had it been available a few weeks ago when they were designing the cover. They had to work with what they had, and what they had was some facebook selfies and low quality, grainy surveillance photos

[steve dave]

understanding how someone turned out the way they did (unless you believe some people are "born evil") is kind of interesting to me and even if it wasn't I'm not going to get pissed off because someone wrote about it.

[chum1]

Yeah, I think the point of the cover is to show that it could be someone you would never expect and the cop who wanted to release his photos to show the true face of a terrorist totally missed it.

[420seriouscat69]

Welp! http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/18/us/massachusetts-tsarnaev-photos/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

nice one fanning, never seen those before.  nope.  not even on this page.

have you ever seen them posted... by fanning?

I once dated a girl who just texted me and said I would look "hot" like Jahar if I grew my hair out

not with that quickly advancing forehead. t's and p's bud.

[felix rex]

I think it's important that we dehumanize our enemies as much as possible, so that it's clear that they are nothing like us.