'As Sarah Palin kicks off her book tour around the nation this week, Americana takes time to learn more about the women that represent America as well as the women who work each day to make it run.'
Otherwise known as 'let's find a succession of women to take a pop at Sarah Palin'.
I particularly liked the woman chosen to give us the more sympathetic take on Palin, the BBC's idea of a 'devil's advocate', one Amy Alexander, whose website shows, er, an interesting sensibility.
'Demonising Sarah Palin solidifies Sarah Palin's base - the same crowd that calls President Barack Obama a socialist, a totalitarian sleeper and worse. The Left's relentless demeaning of Palin gives more fuel to this crowd's perverse, puritanical sense of victimisation. Palin, after all, is a human being - she is therefore worthy of respect. And for the liberal feminists out there of any gender, it is foolish not to admit that Sarah Palin posesses a high degree of ambition, self-confidence, and what we Americans call moxie - gumption to everyone else. Those are qualities we say we want to cultivate in women. I think it's time we stopped fretting about Palin's hypocrisy, contradictions, mangled syntax and stagey flag-waving, and acknowledged the postive parts of her persona. They do exist, and recognising them does not require you to dismiss her obvious shortcomings'.She really came out fighting for Palin, didn't she ... the main guest, one 'Cokey' Roberts (I won't hazard a guess how she got that name) turned out not to have actually read Palin's book - but she apparently knew what was in it without reading it !
(One Republican representative was interviewed - and Frei opened by opining that Palin was a wake-up call to the 'white old men' of the party. And so it goes ...).
Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment