Guess who's baaaack?
Gov, Sarah Palin that's who...back in the headlines and she's got a gripe or two...or three. I am so happy to see her back, I don't really want her going anywhere. I am so grateful every time she opens her mouth to show us the emptiness in her head. I firmly believe she is an enormous asset to my party...yep, I'm a proud Democrat.
Conservative filmmaker John Ziegler interviewed Palin for an upcoming documentary and she let loose on the media, her campaign handlers, and the media again (bloggers).
Palin was very critical of the Katie Couric interviews, saying they had been edited to make her look stupid...she also said, "Katie, you're not the center of everyone's universe."
Any minute now Gov. Palin will provide transcripts showing all those brilliant, insightful answers she gave that Couric "sliced" out.
Poor Sarah...she went into the interviews with Couric expecting to be thrown softballs and was totally gobsmacked when Couric actually acted like a journalist.
Ziegler asked her about Caroline Kennedy's campaign to replace Hillary Clinton as junior senator from New York.
From cbsnews.com: “I’ve been interested to see how Caroline Kennedy will be handled and if she will be handled with kid gloves or if she will be under such a microscope,” Palin said. “It’s going to be interesting to see how that plays out, and I think that as we watch that we will perhaps be able to prove that there is a class issue here also that was such a factor in the scrutiny of my candidacy versus, say, the scrutiny of what her candidacy may be."
First, I wonder if Palin understands the difference between the importance of a junior Senator of NY and the VP of the United States...why one might get more scrutiny than the other.
True, Caroline hasn't received anywhere near the national media attention that Palin received, but that's because she wants to be one of 100 senators, serving one state. Palin wanted to be VP...one heartbeat away from leading the free world. The scrutiny *should* be different -- candidates for statewide office and national office are in different leagues.
I don't think the media treat these two women differently because of social class. Whining about it just reminds us that Caroline Kennedy was in the top 10 percent of her class at Columbia Law and authored or co-authored several books on Constitutional Rights and American History while Palin was a beauty queen/TV sportscaster journalism major in 5 different colleges.
Playing the victim, suggesting the media is picking on her because she isn't wealthy is just plain silly. Righties always scream "classism!" to cover up differences in credentials.
Second, as far as I can tell, the press has been pretty rough on Caroline...especially the New York Times, which published this very unflattering piece:
I've seen plenry of reporters and TV talking heads mocking Caroline's speaking style ("you know") and questioning her credentials...and blogger response to her "candidacy" has been mostly negative, even from Democrats.
The only difference I see about the media treatment between Palin and Caroline is that one side of the partisan media was actually pro-Palin, while both sides have attacked Caroline.
And, I'll bet Caroline would be on TV day and night if she had a nepotism firing scandal, an interview where she couldn't name one Supreme Court case, or couldn't think of any newspaper she'd read...or accepted a call from two comics claiming one was President Zarkosy who said he enjoyed watching her in a porn film, a book banning attempt and the church exorcist.
Oh yeah, or if she claimed to know foreign policy because she can see the Russian Tea Room from her house.
