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Always To The Right on Friday, September 05, 2008 9:59:04 PM
In this case it means replacing the argument that mom should be home
with the family with the more highly nuanced argument that any
politician of either sex should be home when their family’s in crisis. Bristol’s pregnant and baby Trig has Down’s syndrome and, gosh, don’t you think a responsible mother
gender-neutral parent would consider that before doing something as
rash as running for high office? To which I reply: Am I hallucinating
or isn’t there a guy on the other ticket who had a much worse family
crisis than this, who in fact has been praised to the heavens for not
quitting his job and instead making a heroic effort to manage both kids
and career through hard times? Did I dream that? I could have sworn I
heard something about it recently.
Update: Don’t you mind what those conservatives are saying about the press, now. The coverage is fair because, well, we say it is:
After several primetime speakers at this week’s
Republican National Convention unleashed a barrage of attacks on the
news media for their coverage of vice-presidential nominee Alaska Gov.
Sarah Palin, network news executives defended their coverage and
dismissed the charges as a stale political strategy meant to distract
viewers from legitimate election issues.
“It’s a time-honored marketing ploy and, every time they bash the
media, it means they’re not talking about a vision or a plan,” CNN
president Jon Klein said. “But the best antidote to cynical marketing
is solid reporting.”…
“America has been presented with a total unknown who might be a
heartbeat away from the presidency,” Klein said of Palin, “and
Americans have every right to expect as much information as possible
about this person so that they can make an informed choice. Certainly
our critics are in favor of Americans making an informed choice, aren’t
they?”
What Klein means by “informed choice,” of course, is having his reporters recycle Daily Kos rumors about whether Trig is really Palin’s child and wonder aloud whether the mother of a Down’s baby should really be doing something as selfish as running for vice president.
These morons understand that the public agrees with McCain’s campaign about this, yes?