As soon as Newsweek tweeted this week’s cover of the magazine, featuring a particuarly bad picture of presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, bloggers were up in arms.

NewsBusters argued that Newsweek intentionally chose a photo that made Bachmann look “crazy.” Slate asked whether the picture showed the magazine was “sexist.”

Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin thought the answer to Slate’s question was yes.

An angry Malkin chastised Newsweek Editor-in-Chief Tina Brown, saying “You’ve resorted to recycling bottom-of-the-barrel moonbat photo cliches about conservative female public figures and their enraged ‘crazy eyes?’ Really?”

Tea Party pundit Dana Loesch even went so far as to suggest a caption contest under a bad photo of Tina Brown.

And when readers realized that Newsweek was using the hashtag #QueenofRage to promote the story on Twitter, criticism came from all sides:

Conservative blogger Ed Morrissey said of the hashtag: “Yeah, that’s keeping it classy.”

Newsweek has gotten backlash to its controversial covers before. Most recently, Newsweek — and Tina Brown — came under fire for a photo of what Princess Diana Diana might have looked like at 50. The cover was called “ghoulish” and “in bad form.”

While Brown, who wrote the cover story, was blamed for the editorial choice, Newsweek had problems with its female cover models before her time. Remember the cover the magazine used of Sarah Palin in her running shorts?

Read More

[Editor’s note: One or more original URLs (links) referenced in this article are no longer valid; those links have been removed.]