Get ready for Dem media to reverse what they did to Palin (McCain, Representatives)
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"...Because here’s the thing. The media didn’t just hate Palin because she was a conservative Republican woman. They hated her because she was attractive, charismatic, and the mother of a young family. They hated her because she was not a hypocrite, especially about abortion. They hated her because a lot of ordinary Americans liked her, despite her rustic affectations and awkward public presence. They hated her for much the same reasons McCain staffers like Nicolle Wallace, who later shamefully turned on Palin for pats on the head from the media, hated her: she was totally indifferent to the approval of the East Coast establishment, and she wasn’t afraid to laugh in its face and call out its vapidity and duplicity.
They could not know it at the time, but by destroying Palin they were sowing the wind. Many of the things the media hated about Palin they ended up getting tenfold in Donald Trump eight years later. In 2016, accusations of sexism against Trump fell flat, not just because Trump could point to the hypocrisy of Bill and Hillary Clinton on the subject, but because the Palin saga proved, to at least half the country, that Democrats and the media don’t care about sexism, even sexism of the worst kind, as long as it’s deployed in the service of their political agenda.
Now they come forward under the guise of calling out sexism in politics with a thinly-veiled attempt to preempt all legitimate criticism of Harris. It won’t work. Republicans and conservative media are not likely to treat Harris the way Palin was treated, but when Democrats and the media inevitably cry out that Trump is being sexist, that conservatives are being unfair, and that in retrospect they regret how they treated Palin, no one will be able to hear them above the whirlwind."
... she was totally indifferent to the approval of the East Coast establishment, and she wasn’t afraid to laugh in its face and call out its vapidity and duplicity.
That part is true, and they're showing why again because East Coast media are already tossing around "soccer mom" as a pejorative because they don't understand that not everyone thinks it's an insult to be called a soccer mom.
Just after Palin burst on the national stage, [Donny] Deutsch decreed her "the new feminist ideal" to "sell a woman in power," because "women want to be her; men want to mate with her." Though critics will attack her on issues, Deutsch told CNBC that "It doesn't matter. ... I want her laying next to me in bed. That's the way people vote." (More wisdom from Deutsch-land? Hillary Clinton lost because "she didn't put a skirt on!")
"Coverage of Palin was more likely to include references to her family, physical appearance and social issues, particularly in newspapers and by political blogs, while coverage of Biden dealt more with foreign policy and the economy."
“Without an examination of vice presidential contests, our understanding of the intersection of political communication and the experience of women as political candidates is incomplete,” Bode and Hennings write. “If gender stereotypes in media coverage have the ability to negatively affect women candidates, this calls into question the American political system’s ability to produce elected representatives in a fair and democratic manner.”
Palin could barely form a coherent sentence.. That was her issue.
So you are saying she was just a step ahead of Joe Biden?!
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