Adventure is worthwhile - Aesop
No it’s true. Here’s Media Myrmidons, for once not using their supposedly objective platform to defend liberal bullshit. Here’s Michelle Malkin. The issue is that Newsweek’s hit piece on Sarah Palin uses the photos she made for an exercise magazine (she’s in a tight running outfit) and then a picture of a Sarah Palin doll in a naughty schoolgirl outfit. The former I don’t really have a problem with; the latter is demeaning.
You know I’m not overly fond of the Alaskan Huntress, but this is absurd. If similar images were use for liberal women ... correction ... if there were attractive liberal women for whom such pictures were used, there would be an uproar. Or not, because Newsweek would never portray a liberal woman in such a manner.
Update: McArdle:
And I find the whole schtick about how the media is just a bunch of elitist hooligans who are out to get her really grating.
That’s why I really wish the media wouldn’t act like, well, a bunch of elitist hooligans who are out to get her. I’ve coined a new phrase to cover the situation: Palinoia. It’s when you think people are out to get you, and then they do their best to justify your erroneous belief.
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Then there’s the Associated Press, putting 11 reporters on the task of “fact checking” her book. I put the words in quotes because the CJR notes that much of this herculean feat is not checking facts, but quibbling with interpretations or sentimental boilerplate about the hearts and minds of Alaskans. But the deeper question is how come Palin’s book gets a team of fact checkers, when books by other politicians get the standard gloss?
There seems to be an unhealthy obsession with tearing her down. And really, guys, if you’ll just back off a little, she’ll do the job for you. Have you seen that resignation speech? How about we all act like she’s a former governor and vice presidential candidate, rather than Public Enemy #1
That’s precisely my feeling. Egotistical politicians were persecution complexes tend not to last in American politics. See Clinton, Hillary. Or Buchanan, Pat. I don’t think the public will ever get over her just up and quitting as governor. Eventually, she’ll get her own daytime talk show and I’ll only mention her when Sullivan melts down over some softball interview she gives to Governor Carrie Prejean in the runup to the 2024 election.
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Who.
Gives.
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Shit.
This has GOT to be one of the biggest non-stories of the year. Of course, the left loves it because they get to do what they do best, which is smugly condescend and thinly insult those they perceive as inferior and/or a threat. The right loves it because they can play the offended and indignant victim that’s being unfairly maligned by the neverending and omnipresent “librul media conspiricy”.
The rest of us with brains recognize it for what it truly is: panem et circenses