Thoughts on Sarah Palin

Today, Sarah Palin has resigned as the governor or Alaska. I know it is only a matter of time (if it hasn't happened already) until the media creates round two of Give-Palin-the-Hatchet. O how joyful they must be right now. I personally think it is very sad how many people judged Sarah Palin based on the way that the ridiculously biased media portrayed her. They were unfair and never gave Palin a chance. I don't think anyone can dispute that regardless of how they feel about Palin. It is a shame how many voters made their selection on slanted news coverage which found every fault they possibly could with Palin, but purposefully ignored faults related to Obama and his vice presidential candidate, Joe Biden (the media liked to call those faults "distractions").

Sarah Palin is the object of so much hatred, and I think that it is hypocritical of people who pay such lip-service about tolerance, equality, and fairness to rave the way they do about Sarah Palin. Is such treatment only sexism when it is directed at a women who views the world left-of-center? I don't think so.

I personally don't think that Sarah Palin's move is a good one politically. She gave her reasons why she is leaving, and the media should respect that and report that, not editorialize it. They also shouldn't, but probably will, consider this a moral victory for themselves. They will attribute Palin's resignation to not being able to take the pressure that they threw at her in a lopsided fashion. They view her as the enemy and have criticized her for having the audacity to give birth to a child with Down Syndrome and to allow her unwed teenage daughter to give birth as well. What a horrible reason to criticize: because she is pro-life and dissimilar to Hillary.

Once upon a time, I desired to be a journalist, but when I discovered how so much of journalism is about slaughtering people with ink, I figured I would do something a little more fair and constructive to society and democracy.

I finish today's post with a quote from an excellent read regarding the left-wing's utter loathing of Sarah Palin, a woman whom I consider honorable and who possessed a certain strength and resolve that could really help our nation if both sides could learn how to coexist. The media doesn't ever want to see such cooperation between the parties take place. The quote is from Bernard Goldberg:

"What makes these liberals foam at the mouth is that this "white trash," pro-gun, pro-life, church-going woman, who didn't go to Harvard or Yale or Princeton, but who flitted from one second-rate school to another before she wound up ... at the University of Idaho, became the most prominent woman in all of America! They hated that. It wasn't supposed to be that way. It drove them crazy with rage. She wasn't one of them. She wasn't even really a woman, as those feminists told us. She was... a conservative!