Douchebaggery On Parade
By dcmediagirl on September 4, 2008 at 11:23 AM in Current Affairs
On behalf of the media, I would like to say we are sorry.
On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very sorry.
We have asked questions this week that we should never have asked.
Promising!
We have asked pathetic questions like: Who is Sarah Palin? What is her record? Where does she stand on the issues? And is she is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?
We have asked mean questions like: How well did John McCain know her before he selected her? How well did his campaign vet her? And was she his first choice?
Bad questions. Bad media. Bad.
Ah yes, Roger Simon, the ol’ bait and switch.
But where did we go wrong with Sarah Palin? Let me count the ways:
First, we should have stuck to the warm, human interest stuff like how she likes mooseburgers and hit an important free throw at her high school basketball tournament even though she had a stress fracture.
Second, we should have stuck to the press release stuff like how she opposed the Bridge to Nowhere (after she supported it).
Third, we should never have strayed into the other stuff. Like when The Washington Post recently wrote: “Palin is under investigation by a bipartisan state legislative body. … Palin had promised to cooperate with the legislative inquiry, but this week she hired a lawyer to fight to move the case to the jurisdiction of the state personnel board, which Palin appoints.”
And on and on.
He conveniently leaves out the articles and gasbaggery and bloviating about why a woman with five children would be so selfish as to run for office rather than stay home. He skips over the part about the questions raised about whether her decision to fly after her water broke or get pregnant after the age of 40 raises questions about her judgment. He looks at his shoes and doesn’t address why a supposedly professional press corps would spread paranoid, demented lies about the parentage of baby Trig. He chooses not to aim that rapier-like analysis on how his buddies depicted her as Dan Quayle in a dress, a lipsticked lightweight with oddly named kids and a creepy fondness for firearms.
I say, go ahead media. Keep it up. The more you refuse to check yourselves, the more you whistle past the graveyard, the sleazer and more underhanded your attacks become, the more delusional you prove yourselves to be, the stronger she gets.
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