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?
- Dollface
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