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Yes. (5.00 / 1) (#38)
by ghost2 on Sun Jul 05, 2009 at 09:52:17 PM EST
She said that before it happened to her, and she experienced the magnitude of the media unfairness.  

Funny, that the leftist like BTD end up looking for all the flimsy excuses to justify the public crucification of Sarah Palin.

The video is actually very instructive, but BTD and the media take the wrong lesson from it.  WOMEN who are attacked and complain about it look to be whining.  Unless it happens to you.  Then you realize the depth of sexism, the nastiness, the deep underlying pure hatred of women who want to do it their own way.  

That's why I have ended up defending Palin all the time.  When she talks about fundamental policy points, there are republican POV.  But that pales in comparison to me to the disgust and anger that I feel seeing what she is subject to.  

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Utter BS (5.00 / 0) (#41)
by squeaky on Sun Jul 05, 2009 at 09:58:00 PM EST
She was trashing Hillary in the same sexist way many others were, while trying to score GOP political points by doing so.

As far as never been discriminated against, I find that extremely hard to believe. What did she live in a bubble? Alaska is the only state in the US where there is no sexism?

Give me a break.

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There's a threshold level of discrimination (5.00 / 2) (#45)
by andgarden on Sun Jul 05, 2009 at 10:19:58 PM EST
that I think most people can tolerate, and perhaps even defend.

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Palin had two strikes against her (5.00 / 2) (#58)
by BernieO on Mon Jul 06, 2009 at 07:44:13 AM EST
She is a woman and - horrors! - she is from the boonies. The media loves to trash both.

To get a fair comparison, just look at how the media treated Bush. Granted he was from Texas, but as a member of the east coast elite Bush family, he got a pass on that.

When the media adopts the "rube" storyline one of the essentials is to portray the person's relatives as white trash. Remember all the focus on Billy Carter's and Roger Clinton's antics? Yet when Neil Bush admitted to having sex with prostitutes in his '04 divorce deposition the media barely covered it. (I recently asked a group of friends about this. All of them clearly remembered Billy and Roger but not one knew about Neil.) And he was a grown man, not a hapless teenager like Bristol Palin.

CBS News' report on its website starts with the sentence "In the annals of embarrassing presidential relatives, Neil Bush is no Billy Carter or Roger Clinton." It was written by - I kid you not - Bootie Cosgrove-Mather!! I guess Bootie is right in the sense that neither Billy or Roger played a big role in the collapse of an S&L. But like Billy he was trading on his family name to get million dollar business deals.

While Palin was clearly not prepared to be president she was actually more experienced than Bush, yet the media always defended him as a successful governor. They could not be bothered to point out that Texans deliberately created a very weak governorship because they hated the powerful post-Reconstruction governor. Tixas vests more power in the lieutenant governor who was a Democrat when Bush was in office. In addition, the Texas legislature meets only every other year for four months!

Compare Bush's thin record to Palin's standing up to corrupt politicians in her own party, making the oil companies pony up more money to the state, and shepherding the bill to create a massive natural gas pipeline project and the bias becomes clear. US News downgraded the pipeline bill by saying that Palin had bipartisan support - something they praise Obama for. Alaska's Republican leaders had been trying to get this pipeline created for years but failed because they kept giving away too much to the oil companies which is why they could never get the bipartisan support that they needed.

I want to emphasize that I am not saying I support Palin, just that the media's portrayal of her is way out of line. If they really wanted to do a professional job they would be reporting on just how the economic policies she supports have never worked and are responsible for the mess we are in. Of course those policies are those of the sainted Ronald Reagan so there is no way they will tell the public the truth about them.

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