Foreign Policy, “a global magazine of politics, economics, and ideas,” has “just delivered its new issue, and like Newsweek before,” the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard noticed Friday [1] afternoon, “FP dubs Obama ‘The Second Coming [2].’” Three weeks ago, I observed:
Conservatives have long joked that the national press corps see Barack Obama as the second coming of Jesus Christ. Today, Newsweek – at least what’s left of it, an online product for tablets and e-readers – made it official.
Next to a side shot of Obama’s head, the “Inauguration 2013” cover story, dated January 18, pronounced: “The Second Coming.” (Larger jpg [3] of the tablet-sized Newsweek cover image)
A common link between the two publications: The Washington Post Company owns Foreign Policy [4], buying it in 2008 from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and used to own Newsweek, divesting itself of it more than a year before the infamous Obama cover.
The cover of the January/February edition of Foreign Policy, which is run out of an office in Washington, DC, features a photo of Barack Obama in a thoughtful pose, next to the headline: “The Second Coming [5].” The subhead: “10 Smart Things Obama Can Do Right Now to Make the World a Better Place”
The cover package [6] is made up of these ten articles:
Stop Using Land Mines and Cluster Munitions
By Jody Williams
Save Greece, Save Europe
By George Papandreou
Get Kony
By John Prendergast
Dump These 8 Unsavory Allies
By Kenneth Roth
Take the Nukes off Alert
By David E. Hoffman
Get His Authority Back
By Zbigniew Brzezinski
Kill the Oil Monopoly
By Gal Luft
Cut Power Plant Pollution
By Gernot Wagner
Make a Trade Deal with Europe
By Edward P. Joseph
Fix American Democracy
By Micah L. Sifry
(Larger jpg [7] of the Foreign Policy cover)
-- Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center. Click here [8] to follow Brent Baker on Twitter.