Media Double standard?
Posted by Moonage on 03 Sep 2008 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race, The Media
Several in media have been insinuating that there might be a double standard at play regarding Sarah Palin. Let’s see. We’ve had a couple of very recent events to compare. So, let’s do, shall we?
- John Edwards ran for President as recently as early this year. He ran on ethics primarily. He lost but maintained a strong political position as Hillary and Barack possibly needed his supporters. The entire time of his campaign he was occasionally seeing a woman that might have born his child while he was screwing around on his cancer stricken wife. CNN, MSNBC, and others were not interested in the least. Dogged by The Enquirer and festering rumors circulating primarily in the blogworld, Edwards finally confessed his infidelity and national deception. One interview was given and that was that.
- Sarah Palin was accused by Daily Kos among others of not birthing her last child. But rather, adopting it to cover up the pregnancy of her daughter, who by the way, was pregnant at the time. There has been no indescretion on the part of Palin, or for that matter, her daugher. Regardless, her plight, or rather the plight of her daughter, has been non-stop media discussion for days as people debate very vocally on CNN, MSNBC, and others, whether or not Mrs. Palin can govern since her daughter is pregnant.
Maybe it’s just me. But for some reason I really think John Edwards should have been thrashed publicly by the media and people should have congratulated Sarah Palin on her impending grandmotherhood.
That’s just not how media works apparently. There’s obviously a bias there. Is it because Sarah Palin is, you know, Republican?
I could be way off here in my assuming tho. How’s about a poll?
3 Comments »
on 03 Sep 2008 at 3:08 pm 1.drquality.com » Blog Archive » Media Double standard? said …
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on 05 Sep 2008 at 10:29 am 2.American Phoenix
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It’s worse than that. Palin has been excoriated in the press for her choices and for being a mother. It gives the lie to the fembot “pro-choice”, “pro-woman” mantra. If you don’t think like a liberal, pro-abortion female, you’re not their female. Feminists are now doing to Sarah Palin, what black activists did to Clarence Thomas. They considered him a traitor to his race. Palin is considered by them to be a traitor to her gender.
on 07 Sep 2008 at 7:17 pm 3.Thoughts on Sarah Palin | American Phoenix said …
[...] seen all of this before during Clarence Thomas nomination to the United States Supreme Court. I made this observation early on after hearing some of the ridiculous comments about Sarah Palin that have poured forth. Feminists [...]