Shame on you, O’Reilly! August 29, 2008
Posted by midnightzimadreams in Elections 2008, Media.1 comment so far
Bill O’Reilly cried foul today that NBC news put a heading under their breaking news banner asking how many houses Sarah Palin brings to the Republican ticket. Fine, low blow, editorialized heading that doesn’t belong on a news network. But then O’Reilly has the nerve to portray Fox News as righteous … sorry, but you can’t give NBC flack for their blunder when Fox runs this. (Yes, I know it’s a montage, but watch the channel once in a while… this splice is remarkably easy on the Fox b.s.) O’Reilly makes me want to weep for the integrity of profession of journalism, in which I was trained.
Not just any woman… August 29, 2008
Posted by midnightzimadreams in Elections 2008.2 comments
I don’t know much about Gov. Sarah Palin, but it is already clear that her policies are drastically different from Hillary Clinton’s, that she has minimal foreign policy experience, and a scant political experience in general. It is rather disappointing and sad that McCain thinks that just naming any woman to the VP ticket would attract former female Clinton supporters. Even Republican women are disturbed by the weak partner he has chosen and see through to his “pandering to women” bottom line. As a woman and a voter, I consider such pandering offensive.
Yes, there are those few voices who spin it so that if Palin is a bad choice for VP, Obama with his little experience and just a few years older than her, should be an even worse choice because he heads the Democrat ticket. Hmm… Palin is very likely to inherit the presidency given McCain’s health and age. Do women disillusioned by Hillary’s demise want an inexperienced, pro-life, no-foreign-policy “nobody” to head the country? That’s Hillary’s 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling legacy?
I shouldn’t be this negative this soon, especially as I have to admit I don’t know too much about Palin (hah! seems like that’s another point that McCain can’t push against Obama anymore), but so far there have been very mixed responses from all corners of the political spectrum to McCain’s VP nomination. There was hardly anything the Republican pundits could come up with against Joe Biden.
Very, very odd choice by McCain (who likely has only met Palin once before selecting her… talk about flip flopping yet again, this time on his trust and experience criteria). But then again, who else could have been a formidable VP candidate?
I can’t and won’t launch into a point-by-point comparsion between Palin and Biden, but a few interesting details come to mind: Palin has a son going to Iraq soon, so does Biden. Both paint themselves as family people with strong family values and down-to-earth lifestyles that connect to ordinary people. Oh, yeah, Palin is currently under investigation for wrongfully terminating a government employee on a personal vendetta.
