http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/19/laura-ingraham-i-never-ca_n_176840.html
Shortly before the whole Ashley Biden cocaine incident, we saw another attack on a famous politician's daughter: Meghan McCain. Though this one isn't something that was orchestrated by the MSM like the previous instance.
This time, it's a far-right crazy like Laura Ingraham attacking Meghan McCain, who officially has zero relevance in politics--and hasn't had any relevance really ever (unless we count the fact that she campaigned with her father...hardly making her relevant in the politosphere.) And of course Ingraham isn't attacking McCain's policy stances, or what little we know about her politics (she supports gay rights...anything else?). It's just a veiled superficial attack on her looks.
Ingraham called McCain fat. Which McCain Ingraham is looking at, I'm not sure. But is this really the type of mud-slinging that the Right should be doing right now? Doesn't it have other things to worry about as a party on the verge of implosion, other than spewing vile hatred like this?
Well, apparently Ingraham's rationale for the name-calling was it was all meant to be in good fun...that she was joking. Ah-hah! Now that I know she was 'attempting' to be funny, I can still not laugh. What garbage.
What's even more ridiculous here is that after McCain defended herself against the smear-attack (she was well within her right to do so, in my humble opinion), Ingraham then devoted a whole Talking Points Memo on the O'Reilly Factor to McCain being used by the left as a pawn to cause in-fighting among the right. Really, Ingraham? YOU started it!
A more important question, again, is where are the cries of injustice here? Similarly to the Biden situation, no one on either side of aisle is bothering to stand up and denounce this type of sexist nonsense. Baseless personal throw-aways, coupled with the lowest type of attack: the superficial, is something everyone needs to denounce...not just in politics, but life in general.
As Senator McCain used to say along the trail all the time, 'Stand up! Stand up! This is America." Well, Senator, this isn't my America and it shouldn't be any other American's.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
VP's daughter does coke? Where's the beef?
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03282009/news/nationalnews/friend_of_bidens_daughter_shopping_tape__161772.htm
Last week, the NY Post was the first major publication to claim that it had seen a videotape of Vice President Biden's doing coke at a party. Though the paper opted not to purchase the tape, which was being sold by an apparent former friend of Biden's, it still ran the story saying that she was using the drug.
Is this newsworthy? Is the VP's daughter's abuse of drugs worth being reported on? In short, yes, of course.
But what kind of source is this to rely on as a crutch? And if the tape wasn't worth buying, why was the story worth printing?
For months and months, the far-right blogosphere and pundits claimed that the liberal media was bringing up Sarah Palin's family for no reason. Bloggers and talking-heads said it was out of line and unimportant for the media to 'attack' a politician's children. Well, what about here? Anybody on the right ready to talk? So far, nobody's come forward (Michelle? Ann? Hannity?).
More interestingly though, is it's noteworthy that not a single politician's son has been brought up over the course of the past year, except for praise. Beau Biden was a decorated soldier and attorney. Track Palin fought bravely in Iraq. But Bristol Palin was the promiscuous one who got knocked up as a teenager. And now, Ashley Biden is the cokehead, even though there seems to be very little believable evidence that proves it.
While this may sound like a conspiracy theory, is it a systematic pattern here? If not, at least an inherent double standard?
Last week, the NY Post was the first major publication to claim that it had seen a videotape of Vice President Biden's doing coke at a party. Though the paper opted not to purchase the tape, which was being sold by an apparent former friend of Biden's, it still ran the story saying that she was using the drug.
Is this newsworthy? Is the VP's daughter's abuse of drugs worth being reported on? In short, yes, of course.
But what kind of source is this to rely on as a crutch? And if the tape wasn't worth buying, why was the story worth printing?
For months and months, the far-right blogosphere and pundits claimed that the liberal media was bringing up Sarah Palin's family for no reason. Bloggers and talking-heads said it was out of line and unimportant for the media to 'attack' a politician's children. Well, what about here? Anybody on the right ready to talk? So far, nobody's come forward (Michelle? Ann? Hannity?).
More interestingly though, is it's noteworthy that not a single politician's son has been brought up over the course of the past year, except for praise. Beau Biden was a decorated soldier and attorney. Track Palin fought bravely in Iraq. But Bristol Palin was the promiscuous one who got knocked up as a teenager. And now, Ashley Biden is the cokehead, even though there seems to be very little believable evidence that proves it.
While this may sound like a conspiracy theory, is it a systematic pattern here? If not, at least an inherent double standard?
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