Sarah Palin pt 1

I said the McCain camp would cry sexism, and once again my predictions come true sooner than I thought. But that’s not all, they also claim the media is biased, and it’s unfairly attacking them.

This is why I love Chris Matthews. When he’s riled up about something, he will not let it go. He speaks his mind. Just watch that video where he gets upset with Keith Olbermann over a perceived slight. Now Matthews is fighting back about a so-called malicious media.

This segment takes place after Chris Matthews spent his round table discussion talking about whether the McCain campaign intends to keep blaming the media for everything. Here he sends it down to Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski and asks this question.
[and this is word for word, I spent 20 minutes rewinding to get it just right and my ellipses leave out nothing important]

C. Matthews: Who started this fight: the media, or the ballyhoo boys behind this convention? (ballyhoo boys refers to the Taylor political machine in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Thanks Keith for pointing that out to me),

J. Scarborough: This fight was begun when the media chased rumors on the internet…and were aggressively following a story that just wasn’t true about her fifth child, the child with Down syndrome. That immediately put the campaign on the defensive…[continues]

[after Joe finishes]

Mika: …Everyone’s probably feeling sorry for her about the rumors that have been spread on the internet…

[afterwards]

K. Olbermann: We’ll see if people feel sorry for unfounded rumors on the internet. If that’s the case Sen. Obama is probably standing up and cheering and waiting for people to feel sorry for him.

This is the perfect illustration of good media bias. Don’t let a political group get away with outright hypocrisy! The truth is Obama has had to deal with the online rumors that he’s a Muslim, that his pastor hates America and so must he, and that both he and Michelle hate white people. They had to start a frakking website to combat these rumors. And if the McCain camp thinks Obama has been getting a free ride, when he kept having to answer questions about bittergate and not wearing a flag pin (both of which by the way the McCain camp thought were perfectly legitimate stories), then I don’t know what media McCain has been watching. Perhaps along with not knowing how to use a computer he hasn’t figured out cable.

The fact that her 17 year old daughter is pregnant is noteworthy because Palin’s an abstinence only advocate. So the story is relevant. Though even I think it should be left alone. But let’s not forget that if this happened to a he’d have to drop out of the race. Yes, I said HE. If instead of Palin it were Sen. Kerry, the right would constantly make reference, if not to the pregnant teen, then to the Liberal ways that caused it. They would keep talking about the permissive ways of liberals and how “this is what happens when you teach kids about condoms, they think it’s ok to have sex out of wedlock.” This wouldn’t be done by the candidates themselves, we’d have Dobson and Focus on the Family condemning them. We’d have the religious right smearing the candidate with whisper campaigns. But since this is the Republican party, every jumps in line. It probably won’t be long before someone mentions that Mary was only 13 when she had Jesus.

I think McCain may have a bit of a maverick streak after all. I think he picked Palin just to see if he could get the party to truly turn on him. “I’m going to pick the most inexperienced person I can find and see how they like it. And then I’m not going to vet her!” If he wanted a woman, we’ve got Kay Hutchinson here in Texas, please take her before she runs for Governor! She’s super conservative and has more legislative experience. But he picked Palin and the Party went with it. “Well, I know we were making all that noise about experience before, but now we’ll talk about ‘executive experience’. “ Never mind that that experience is only 20 months old or that ITS FROM FUCKING ALASKA!

I leave now so that I can save some energy for ripping apart Sarah Palin’s speech.