Sarah Palin is preparing to take the stage at the Republican convention, and if you believe the chorus in the MSM, the pivotal issue she must deal with is the pregnancy of her teen-age daughter — which in the space of two days has apparently become one of the most burning policy matters of our time. Move over, U.S. economy, world markets, jihadis, oil despotisms, resurgent Russian aggressors, Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
I don’t know what Sarah Palin is going to say. But I am trying to imagine the effect it would have if she stood up before the crowd and declared the following:
There are a few more things you need to know about me. As a troubled teen-ager, I myself used cocaine and marijuana (yes, I inhaled), and as an adult, I attended and took my family to (and my inspiration from) a church where the preaching included hate-speech about America and assorted ethnic and religious groups. In my business career, before entering politics, I had talents that allowed me, simply by reading the newspaper, to earn a 10,000% return on a $1,000 investment in cattle futures in the space of 10 months. While holding elected office, my experience included the pursuit of assorted adulterous liaisons, including intimate activities in my landmark government office with an intern less than half my age, though as I regard it, I did not have sex with that person (depending on the meaning of “is”). When I got caught, my spouse denounced my critics as members of a vast political conspiracy. I could add a great deal more to this list (though please remember that when I got caught taking home state silverware, I eventually did send it back), but let us now turn to the mighty issue of the hour…
That scene, of course, is fantasy. Sarah Palin won’t say these words, because they do not apply to her. But the activities listed here do apply, as a quick compendium, to the three most prominent political figures (the politicians themselves, not their children) who paraded across the stage at the Democratic convention in Denver last week — to wild ovations from the crowd.
Somehow, the awkward moments of Barack Obama, and Hillary and Bill Clinton, rank as pardonable and ultimately unimportant in the eyes of many of the same folks who would now pillory Sarah Palin as unfit for office … because her 17-year-old daughter got pregnant and plans to marry the father and have the baby.
Enough with the audacity of hypocrisy. Now may we go ahead with the real political debate?
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1. Chip:Seems as though the mainstream media and Democratic policical machine, but I repeat myself, is crossing the Rubicon of good taste and seriousness never to return. I’ve thought this before and they just keep stooping lower. But this time the hypocrisy, as you correctly point out in italics, is obvious for everyone. Talk about not being “vetted,” the media has gone out of its way to stamp out and direct people away from any stories which undercut Obama.
It will be interesting to see how working mothers feel after another two months of this tawdry and hypocritical character assassination.
Sep 3, 2008 - 6:35 am 2. Moultrie:LOLs, Claudia Rosett is a National Treasure.
Sep 3, 2008 - 7:04 am 3. Insufficiently Sensitive:Thanks for all your work on the OiF scam + much more.
Glenn Reynolds demonstrated the only method whereby the MSM could be made to abandon its screechingfest over the non-issue of Bristol Palin’s pregnancy:
Assert that John Edwards is the father. Then listen to the silence.
Sep 3, 2008 - 8:54 am 4. Truth Serum:The irony of all the MSM/left wing attacks on Bristol Palin, is that Barack Obama was born to a woman who got pregnant at age 17.
Sep 3, 2008 - 9:52 am 5. Concerned American:Don’t forget Ted Kennedy.
How old would Mary Jo Kopechne be today?
Sep 3, 2008 - 10:03 am 6. Lena:I really don’t care if Sarah Palin’s dtr is pregnant out of wedlock. What I do question is how her values about pro-life is in direct contradiction to her statement that she was glad her daughter CHOSE to have the baby. It is very nice to be able to CHOOSE isn’t it? And the hypocritical way the party is saying on the one hand how tough she is but oh poor Sarah Palin is unjustly being pounced on by the media. Make up your minds people. I really don’t think she is that thin skinned. She has a lot of balls accepting the position of VP candidate. She is way out of her league. She may have fought the good ol’ boys but she plays the same games as the good ol’ boys play on a small town scale. I don’t want to see the beverly hill billy’s move into the White House and further wreck this country.
Sep 4, 2008 - 3:27 pm 7. B Dubya:While I would not put pedophilia out of John Edward’s range of potential bucket list nitems, I think young Miss Palin has better taste than to to have any kind of relationship with an ambulance chasing shampoo commercial. (The thought of that particular liason just creeps me out. Really).
Sep 5, 2008 - 4:33 am 8. Javelin:Lena…If you cannot see why your attitude and statements towards Governor Palin are didhonest and dishonorable, then you and your ilk (now please visualize a vast herd of beasts with 100 legs and no brain) should not be surprised when we, the People, reject you and every thing you stand for.
I look forward to the day when the American sub-culture of treason has been removed from the mainstream marketplace of ideas and marginalized as the evil that it really is. Meantime, enjoy your time.
More partisan drivel. Exactly what Rosett does for a living. The people making the most noise about Palin’s daughter are the right wing hacks like Rosett, et al, who are trying to change the channel by pretending to be some gallant knight saving the poor daughter from the evil media. What do you expect of the press? I heard the same hypocritcial trash when Cheney almost killed a man then waited a day and a half to report it, breaking some small laws in the process: “Oh the press is hounding a good man” as if he was some common clerk getting a speeding ticket, get a life! And on cue as expected, the microencephalics here respond like Pavlov’s Dogs. (Palin’s Pitbulls)
Your hypocrisy is astounding. If that was some Dems daughter, all the crummy little talk show loudmouths would be squealing, like the little moral midgets they are, 24/7 about promiscuous, porn belt San Fran free love values.
B Dubya, your trash talk putdowns, which doesn’t respond at all to Lena’s remark, is typical of today’s ditto head who can’t reason his way out of a hedge maze but has all the cheap little putdowns on cue. Not only is your remark just plain stupid, but really is quite trashy, just like the people you supposedly despise. Maybe you need to look closer every morning.
Sep 6, 2008 - 8:47 pm 9. Javelin:By the way, Sarah Palin did admit to using pot when it was almost legal in Alaska. So that means she is an evil, unqualified, morally compormised hippy chick, doesn’t it? I am trying to “think” like Dubya or Claudia.
Sep 6, 2008 - 8:50 pm 10. ronnor:What a bunch of racist phony neo-com/liberals these women of the left are.
Sep 6, 2008 - 9:10 pm 11. Cynic:Lena said: “What I do question is how her values about pro-life is in direct contradiction to her statement that she was glad her daughter CHOSE to have the baby.”
I don’t think you get it. While Palin’s personal view is pro-life she does not become the great dictator to enforce her view on others. They are free to choose, contrary to a certain mindset in the US that demands that their point of view be enforced.
Sep 6, 2008 - 10:32 pm 12. Jane Harrington:Jane: i hope this gets to you …
Greg
Sep 8, 2008 - 7:23 am