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Brad Pitt prepares to enter a 'Dark Void'

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Why Are So Many Media Conservatives So Obsessed With Rape? (Homosexual Mafia?)

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Giant holes in new banking rules

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Spare Sarah Palin the self-righteousness

WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin hardly needs defending.

She prides herself on being a supportive hockey mom, but she can lace on skates and deliver hard checks into the glass with the best of them.

Still, while watching and listening to a lot of the media discussion of the rollout of her book, I can't help noting that some of the coverage is more than a little selective, and hypocritical..........

.......Still, the widespread suggestion in some of the media commentary that she simply isn’t qualified enough to be considered a viable presidential candidate is ridiculous.

For male politicians, it’s always been a rule of thumb in politics and the media that once you were on a presidential ticket, you were automatically elevated onto the short list of contenders for future races.

If George H.W. Bush had lost in 1988, does anyone think Dan Quayle would not have been talked about as a potential candidate for 1992, even with all the political flaws he revealed in that race? Would the media have taken John Edwards as seriously in 2008 if he hadn’t been John Kerry’s running mate in 2004?

Call it sexism or what you will, but why should the media only compare ambitious women to impressive men, when so many ambitious but underwhelming men get so far in this world?

Media debate about why Palin is getting all this attention is also pretty laughable. Cable and network news producers cover her on television to boost ratings, print editors put her on their front pages and magazine covers to sell newsstand copies, and then everyone turns around and tsk-tsk’s: “What’s all the fuss? Is she good for the GOP? Is she good for America?”

At least in the having-it-both-ways department, Palin is a good match for the media. She is milking all the attention for book sales and political exposure while simultaneously using it to appeal to her base of rural, working-class Americans who feel neglected and disrespected by media elites.

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This article is very fair and raises a lot of important points . Some points that people totally ignore on this site. They focus too much on what their party tells them to focus on.WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin hardly needs defending. She prides herself on being a... more