It's Just Too Much

I can't take it any more. The media is completely out of control. Many in the media are using Bristol Palin as evidence that abstinence education doesn't work. Does this mean that kids who receive education on birth control never get pregnant? If a teenager who has received education on birth control becomes pregnant, does the MSM then say that it's proof that birth control education doesn't work? Of course not! And yet the MSM doesn't see their bias!

And I've wondered where all the feminists are with station after station having a dialogue about Palin's 5 children and her fitness to be a mother and a VP. Did we ask Barack how he can be a father and president? Not that I ever heard. And yet it's the 'progressives' who suddenly are turning 'traditional' and thinking that it's a woman's job to stay home with the children. The media has enjoyed talking about the enormity of FIVE children. Nobody is countering that. One "child" is about to head off to Iraq. Another "child" is about to be married and start a life of her own. So WHEN Palin becomes VP, she'll have 3 children at home, not the 5 that the MSM likes to pontificate about because it sounds so much more overwhelming than 3. But despite the fact that she'll only have 3 children at home and not 5 still doesn't excuse the sexism of the media, and the attacks that she has endured.

Many in the media today are scoffing at Republicans complaining about the media's treatment of Palin, defending themselves saying that her experience and votes and quotes are all relevant. Republicans don't disagree. Look at her record, look at her experience, look at what she's said, that's fair game. But be sure to also scrutinize Obama and Biden with the same enthusiasm that they scrutinize Palin. So far this has not been done. (How many times have we heard about McCain's age and 4 bouts with skin cancer, yet how much have you heard about Biden's 2 aneurisms?) But Palin's kids should be off limits. Barack was not asked about how he could balance being a dad of 2 small children and also be president, so Palin should not be asked about her ability to balance it all. Other politician's teenage daughters could have gotten pregnant and just quietly had an abortion, and we're none the wiser. Because Palin's daughter chose to keep her child should not make her fair game for the media (see paragraph 1), but that hasn't stopped them. It's classless and smacks of tabloid journalism. THIS is why Republicans are so steamed.

And as a side note, where is all of the talk about history being made one way or the other this November? When it was down to Hillary and Barack, I couldn't turn on any news without hearing about how history will be made one way or the other, but it's lacking in the dialogue that has been occurring since Palin debuted last Friday. And what will the MSM do about their quandary? They want to continue to talk about Barack making history, but now they will have to also talk about Palin and they don't want to do that. What will they do?

But, perhaps I should urge the immature MSM to continue down their biased, immature, tasteless path of reporting, because it has done nothing but energize conservative voters and strengthen their commitment to make Palin the first woman VP in the United States.