Breaking News Alert: Palin Greets McCain Aide in Towel
by Kelly
The Presidential Election is over, John McCain lost. Let the in-party fighting and slander begin. In the recent days we’ve seen previously undisclosed “tidbits” about Sarah Palin come to light. Some are important, like the fact that she discussed Bill Ayers before the campaign OK’d it. Others, like the fact that she “greeted McCain advisors in a towel” and spent more money on clothing than previously realized, seem a little superfluous. Okay, so the woman has no modesty and has a clothing addiction, so what?
This information is obviously being released in part to protect McCain’s image (he is, after all, still a United States Senator) and to distance the Republican party from Sarah Palin’s questionable political presence. However, for someone considering to run for President in 2012 (or so the MSM would tell us), these juicy kernels of information are potentially devastating.
I want to consider, however, what is truth and what is hearsay. Although I personally would like to ensure that Palin’s political career is shortlived, I feel that part of the negative discourse surrounding her has to do with the fact that she is female.
Let’s look at what the MSM and former McCain aides are accusing her of:
- greeting McCain aides in a towel (if she were a man, would it matter?)
- going on a shopping spree and asking aides to use their personal credit cards for her purchases (because you know how much women love shopping)
- throwing temper tantrums over bad news clippings (note the language here – temper tantrums. She is a grown woman, after all. Must we equate her with behavior fitting a toddler?)
- she doesn’t know that Africa is a continent (because she’s a total ditz from Alaska, of course)
Seriously, even if these are all true, who cares? She has given the public enough reason to mistrust her abilities as a politician (her botched interviews and her involvement in Troopergate, for example). We don’t need a laundry list of all her inadequacies and quirks. At best, this trivial and sensationalist journalism (“Oh my goodness, Sarah was only wearing a towel!?”) is distracting from important issues, yet again. I guess we can expect the google hits for “Sarah Palin in a towel” to spike dramatically by 500% in the next few days. You know, because that’s what really matters to Americans.
So while I am mostly happy that this will be (I hope) the last post I write about the Alaskan Governor, I must say, let’s give the woman a break and let her go back to Alaska in peace. Her political career is in shambles and I don’t think discussing her temper tantrums on national television is necessary at this point. It’s a little childish, don’t you think?
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It would be interesting to see a comprehensive comparison on how the press has made fun of her in relation to how it’s made fun of George W. Bush and Dan Quayle in the past.
Well, I have to say, if you’re running for the vice-president of the United States, whether you’re a man or woman, you shouldn’t be greeting people in a bath towel. It’s just not professional. And if I heard Obama was doing it, I’d be really disappointed in him. On the other hand, I do agree the fascination with it, particularly at this stage in the game, is sexist. It’s the Sarah Palin sex fetish, and I for one am done with it. No more VPILF. No more Nailin Pailin. She’s may have been unqualified to run for VP, but that doesn’t mean all she amounts to now is a sex object.
The Republicans loved her when she was getting them votes in the beginning and gladly defended her on television and in the media, accusing even Katie Couric of “gotchya” journalism. Yet, when they lost, she was the most opportune person to lay the blame on–probably because they only picked her to be arm candy. She was picked because she was a woman; now she is blamed because she is woman (and they’re laying on the stereotypes thick). The cries of sexism we heard on Fox from a few months ago have all but disappeared.
I agree; it’s time to leave Sarah Palin alone. And for once I actually agree with Palin herself–the people saying this shit behind her back are cowards.
@ A.Y. Siu — Definitely. I’ll have to see if I can find some articles on it. I know Dan Quayle has been a topic of hilarity for a long time, but ever since Palin was picked people have called her worse than Quayle.
@ Dollyann — Yeah, I mean I think it’s a little strange to greet people in a towel…I know I would never have done that. However, you get my point about the Sarah Palin sex fetish (P.S. nice wording). It is time to leave Palin alone, and hopefully next time around a woman of substance like Hillary will be the VP or Presidential pick.
If Palin runs for President in 2012, at least she has name recognition going for her… but that may not work in her favor
I’m going to sound redundant, but I completely agree. I was never a big fan, but good grief. Gossip is just tacky. And it sure as hell isn’t journalism!!
@ movie fan — She definitely has name recognition, but I agree that it won’t work in her favor.
@ Sonya — It is tacky! Definitely not journalistic..
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