hmmm?

ok I know why, it's because Paglia is on the Salon board of directors or whatever. But still, I find it hilarious that this article has provoked literally hundreds of searing, eloquent critiques, and not one has earned a star next to it. Hahaha, oh Salon.com, you crazy bastard.

Has everyone been tuning to the hate rallies Palin has been holding? As if Palin is actually in charge, real woman there. It seems to me like she is deliberately attempting to incite deadly violence against the 'minority' candidate.

"...if Pagilia is really so off the mark with her articles, why isn't everyone just laughing it off, not bothering to read what she writes, and certainly not bothering to comment?"

Laughing it off: check

Not bothering to read Paglia--I mean, Pagilia: check.

Not bothering to comment: crap!

I totally agree, Palin is nobody's dummy. She may not be "book smart" or an intellectual but she's not stupid. What is worrisome is that her intellectual curiousity seems to be an inch deep and a yard wide.

As importantly any candidate with her fundamentalist religious beliefs coupled with a significant lack of experience, would be dangerous. (Ms. Palin supposedly has stated that she believes that human beings and dinosaurs co-existed.)

I don't want a Vice President, or President who is rapture ready and anxious to take the world on that last journey because they are ready to meet their maker. All the politics and feminism aside, I believe that the separation of church and state is one of the bedrock principles of this country. And I don't think Palin really believes that.

Thanks, Camille for giving us some more honest perspective on Sarah Palin. Who is Governor Sarah Palin? CBS would have us believe she doesn't read or even know the name of a single major news publication. What nonsense! But how telling to any that think for themselves and don't let the media think for them. The President governs our land, and there is only one candidate in this race that has governing experience, and that is Sarah Palin. She has a sizeable budget as governor (billions) and has reformed politics in her state, and is extremely popular. After intense and unfair scrutiny by both the Obama aides and media types sent to her home state, many of them motivated to find dirt, no credible reports have surfaced to dis-credit what we first heard about her. So instead of the media reporting to us about the truth of her popularity and reforms in Alaska, we have heard nothing from the army of investigators. Instead we get major network attack interviews designed to make her appear weak and foolish. And all of this in just the few weeks since her VP candidacy was announced.

What about Obama's experience and his handling by the media? His pertinent experience does not even match her short time in politics, and can't hold a candle to McCain's. He can't point to a single major achievement or legislation. And the intense scrutiny that the media and press said was so vital with Palin has been almost non-existent with Obama since he first came on the national scene. There is no light shed on his thin resume. Much of Obama's life and work in Chicago and his university experiences are un-reported and un-explored. ABC's Stephanopoulos asked Obama one time about his relationship with Ayers, and Obama skirted the issue with a vague answer that we now know is untrue. ABC did not pursue or follow up, and let a very important issue drop, like a rookie reporter might. Obama gets to be judge of the truth of any unfavorable report about himself, unchallenged by the mainstream media. His church history and Wright, his Resko problem, his long association with ACORN, all of this is treated very delicately by the press. No scrutiny or challenge of Obama's portrayals of these events is attempted.

So now, this late in the election, we choose between two candidates and their VP's, but do we really know Barack Obama? Is the Sarah Palin of ABC news and CBS the real Sarah Palin?

In this election, far more so than in any other, we are perilously close to electing a man for president that is an image of clever politics and a creation of the media that desperately seeks to help elect him. And of rejecting a man and woman also created by the media. The major media are on the verge of destroying freedom of the press in our society by turning more and more to advocacy journalism, by allowing liberal politics and overwhelmingly liberal journalists to dominate their thinking, and therefore acting as a support arm of one political party. The result is a mis-informed public, the ones the media has always claimed to be defending the right to know for, now going to the polls to elect someone created by modern media manipulation. If this sounds extreme, go back and look at what has transpired with a fair mind. The media must be held accountable for betrayal of the public trust. Mis-information really can control the outcome of this election, just as has happened in other lands. Hopefully some major media will still have the courage and fortitude to really dig out and report the facts with balance so America has a chance to know who we are really electing.

Dear Camille-

Thanks, Camille for giving us some more honest perspective on Sarah Palin. Who is Governor Sarah Palin? CBS would have us believe she doesn't read or even know the name of a single major news publication. What nonsense! But how telling to any that think for themselves and don't let the media think for them. The President governs our land, and there is only one candidate in this race that has governing experience, and that is Sarah Palin. She has a sizeable budget as governor (billions) and has reformed politics in her state, and is extremely popular. After intense and unfair scrutiny by both the Obama aides and media types sent to her home state, many of them motivated to find dirt, no credible reports have surfaced to dis-credit what we first heard about her. So instead of the media reporting to us about the truth of her popularity and reforms in Alaska, we have heard nothing from the army of investigators. Instead we get major network attack interviews designed to make her appear weak and foolish. And all of this in just the few weeks since her VP candidacy was announced.

What about Obama's experience and his handling by the media? His pertinent experience does not even match her short time in politics, and can't hold a candle to McCain's. He can't point to a single major achievement or legislation. And the intense scrutiny that the media and press said was so vital with Palin has been almost non-existent with Obama since he first came on the national scene. There is no light shed on his thin resume. Much of Obama's life and work in Chicago and his university experiences are un-reported and un-explored. ABC's Stephanopoulos asked Obama one time about his relationship with Ayers, and Obama skirted the issue with a vague answer that we now know is untrue. ABC did not pursue or follow up, and let a very important issue drop, like a rookie reporter might. Obama gets to be judge of the truth of any unfavorable report about himself, unchallenged by the mainstream media. His church history and Wright, his Resko problem, his long association with ACORN, all of this is treated very delicately by the press. No scrutiny or challenge of Obama's portrayals of these events is attempted.

So now, this late in the election, we choose between two candidates and their VP's, but do we really know Barack Obama? Is the Sarah Palin of ABC news and CBS the real Sarah Palin?

In this election, far more so than in any other, we are perilously close to electing a man for president that is an image of clever politics and a creation of the media that desperately seeks to help elect him. And of rejecting a man and woman also created by the media. The major media are on the verge of destroying freedom of the press in our society by turning more and more to advocacy journalism, by allowing liberal politics and overwhelmingly liberal journalists to dominate their thinking, and therefore acting as a support arm of one political party. The result is a mis-informed public, the ones the media has always claimed to be defending the right to know for, now going to the polls to elect someone created by modern media manipulation. If this sounds extreme, go back and look at what has transpired with a fair mind. The media must be held accountable for betrayal of the public trust. Mis-information really can control the outcome of this election, just as has happened in other lands. Hopefully some major media will still have the courage and fortitude to really dig out and report the facts with balance so America has a chance to know who we are really electing.

Sincerely-

Joe Saba

Engineer