Time's cover story on Ann Coulter has caused quite a flap. Eric Alterman wrote: "Time’s cover story/whitewash of Ann Coulter ... will make it impossible for serious people to accept what the magazine reports at face-value ever again. It is as if Time had contracted a journalistic venereal disease from Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly and is now seeking to lower itself to their level in pursuit of their ideologically-obsessed audiences." The author of the Time story, John Cloud, responds to critics (including Alterman) in an online interview at Columbia Journalism Review.

But it's the photo that really created the flap. Howard Kurtz seemed to think the distorted legs were sexy, but I think they are creepy. Apparently, Ann Coulter thinks so, too. On her website, she posted this,

If Time Were Fair and Balanced -

Truth be told, neither of those women require photographic distortion to scare me.

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