I have to admit I have been admiring Palin's taste in clothing, especially the red leather jacket she wore the other day. Thanks to recent news reports now I know why I've been paying attention to her wardrobe. Palin's outfits have been created by the finest designers in the world of haute couture. Sigh. Guess I'd better forget about ever owning that red leather jacket unless I can find a knock off at Chico's.
Sarah sure has exquisite taste in clothes. Price seems to be no limit when someone else is footing the bill. And like "Joe the Plumber" who is not a plumber, Palin does not like to pay her fair share of taxes, either.
Another grim lesson I have learned from Republicans who are running for office is that when they demonize something or something or attack someone for doing something they should not be doing, chances are the Republican is doing the very thing they are hyperventilating about.
Lately Sarah Palin has been stomping across the so-called red parts of America in her $600 a pop high heels and $12,000. suits while attacking Barack Obama whom she calls a socialist b/c he wants to redistribute the wealth. Duh, isn't that what taxes are supposed to do? Never mind.
According to Palin, Obama wants to steal money from the small business owners like Joe the Plumber who is not a plumber, nor does he own a business, and give it to other Americans who are very likely fake or anti-American.
The truth of the matter is Sarah Palin is the real socialist. Aside from the $150K wardrobe handout, as the governor of oil rich Alaska Sarah taxes the oil companies and transfers the revenues to her and the people of Alaska.
The media's self-righteous outrage in covering John Edward's affair is so over the top that one has to wonder why it is protesting so much. Why are the reporters and anchors so personally outraged? If they have a problem with affairs, what about McCain's cruel and calloused ditching of his first wife, who was crippled, for a younger and richer woman? What about that lobbyist lady friend of his that was mentioned in the New York Times? Or who was that Ms. what's her face with Dick Cheney on that infamous hunting trip when he shot one of his friends in the face?
Last night I switched channels from MSNBC's Hardball to CNN's Wolf to Faux's whomever (didn't hang long enough to find out b/c I refuse to have my intelligence insulted by a bunch of water carrying bushie propagandists). It was all the same: John Edwards, John Edwards and then John Edwards. Fuming, I turned off the idiot box and blasted off the following email to Hardball.
fox
Function: transitive verb
to trick by ingenuity or cunning
I have at times wondered while some in liberal and progressive politics, most especially bloggers, have such a hard line against Democrats appearing on Fox News. To tell you the truth, I am conflicted. This post, though; has the purpose of exploring flaws of the heavy anti-Fox News position.
I understand, in part, the attempt to boycott the station as an effort to take its legitimacy away, if it has any left. However, will the legitimacy that it has with its viewers be affected if there are seldom Democrats on their programs? Fox News viewers I know are probably some of the most loyal viewers in the nation. They watch the station vehemently and they trust it almost blindly.
I can also easily see the point of view to not put our primary debates on Fox News. We aren't going to change these viewers' minds and the debates are geared towards Democrats, who just happen to rarely be Fox News viewers. However, it is this view, that we can't change the viewers' minds, that I do not believe holds up arguments about all segments of Fox News.
As Stephen Colbert would say, "Bill Moyers gets it."
"Sadly, it's become the divine distraction. Here we are bogged down in a colonial war, spending beyond our means, leaving our children a colossal debt, paving over our farmland, allowing health care to be both expensive and inefficient, facing a shortage of affordable housing, and addicted to oil that is making us more and more dependent on Islamic countries. And the party in power is obsessed with gay marriage?"
--Journalist Bill Moyers, in an interview with The Dallas Morning News, commenting on the relevancy of faith and reason to contemporary American politics.
In other religious-right news, a West Virginia columnist writes that while the religious right may not overtly espouse a desire for an American theocracy, the implementation of their preferred public policies would de facto lead to such a state.
Then, the Houston Chronicle, along with a bevy of other newspapers across the nation, criticizes Texas Republicans for blocking the renewal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. U.S. Rep. John Carter, R-TX, doesn't "think we have a racial bias in Texas."
More important, an important study has found that while the religious right and Republicans tout unproven abstinence-only sex education, poor and uneducated women are having more and more trouble controlling their own fertility and planning for childbearing.
Last, but certainly not least, News Hounds (who watch FOX News so you don't have to) reports that the cable news network is promoting religious-right (which controls the Republican Party) positions.
