Media Left: Stop Enabling Palin!

05 December 2010 |permalink | email article

Charles M. Blow has had it with the left’s obsessive-compulsive fascination with Sarah Palin. The New York Times columnist won’t write her name again until she says something newsworthy, like declaring her candidacy for president. It’s a gutsy decision and refreshing departure from hanging on her every twitter, only to more infuriate her enemies and make her a folk hero among legions of the faithful.

“She’s the Zsa Gabor of American politics. She once did something noteworthy, but she’s now just famous for being famous. She was a vice presidential nominee, But she lost. She was the governor of Alaska. But she quit. Now she’s just a political personality – part cheerleader, part bomb thrower.

Blow nails it by suggesting that every utterance by the left to mock and deride Palin is a strategy that continues to backfire. The more the left tries to paint her as one of the “Mean Girls,” the more the right sees her as “Erin Brockovich.”

“Yes, she’s about as sharp as a wet noodle, but we all know that. How much more time and energy must be devoted to dissecting that?”

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Jon Stewart lampooned Sen. John McCain’s fierce opposition to DADT, even though a Pentagon review has indicated that a repeal of the ban on openly gay men and women would have little or no impact on military readiness.

“McCain’s like one of those Japanese soldiers living on Okinawa in 1949, still fighting because he doesn’t realize the war ended a long time ago,” Stewart said. “And, for some reason, and even though he’s been alone for years and years on this island, doesn’t like gay people.”   

 

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