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Palin: Media goes easy on Kennedy - Yahoo! News
So let me get this straight. First, the media went hard on you because you were a conservative/republican/christian/average woman. Now that it's been pointed out that ALL women across the political board have it pretty ****ty (Coulter, Pelosi, Hilary all come to mind like a heroin shot), the issue has become one of class? I wonder how 'class' had anything to do with your treatment. Didn't Obama's family come from a lower class then yours did? Didn't Bush's family come from a much higher class then yours did? I think Palin is grabbing really hard at straws. Maybe it's not so much 'class' but family history? The Kennedys have become part of history through tragedy, scandals and the role some of them have played in world events(Cuban Missile Crisis, RFK's murder, JFKs murder, Chappaquiddick etc.) while your family has become part of history because of a failed presidential campaign and teenage pregnancies.
Oh and I forgot. You give Alaskan's money and can field dress a moose.
“I did see that Tina Fey was named entertainer of the year and Katie Couric’s ratings have risen,” she said. “And I know that a lot of people are capitalizing on, oh I don’t know, perhaps some exploiting that was done via me, my family, my administration. That’s a little bit perplexing, but it also says a great deal about our society.”
The Alaska governor said that when she sees some of the coverage of her daughter Bristol especially “the momma grizzly rises up in me.”
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“I knew it didn’t go well the first day, and then we gave her a couple of other segments after that. And my question to the campaign was, after it didn’t go well the first day, why were we going to go back for more?” she said. “Because of however it works in that upper echelon of power brokering in the media and with spokespersons, it was told to me that, yeah, we are going to go back for more. And going back for more was
So let me get this straight. First, the media went hard on you because you were a conservative/republican/christian/average woman. Now that it's been pointed out that ALL women across the political board have it pretty ****ty (Coulter, Pelosi, Hilary all come to mind like a heroin shot), the issue has become one of class? I wonder how 'class' had anything to do with your treatment. Didn't Obama's family come from a lower class then yours did? Didn't Bush's family come from a much higher class then yours did? I think Palin is grabbing really hard at straws. Maybe it's not so much 'class' but family history? The Kennedys have become part of history through tragedy, scandals and the role some of them have played in world events(Cuban Missile Crisis, RFK's murder, JFKs murder, Chappaquiddick etc.) while your family has become part of history because of a failed presidential campaign and teenage pregnancies.
Oh and I forgot. You give Alaskan's money and can field dress a moose.