Media Meltdown, Day 7: Press Continues to Sling Mud As Women Identify with Palin
Megan Fox at The Intolerant Fox on Sep 04 2008 at 5:30 am | Filed under: Election 2008, Feature Article, Media Watch, Republican National Convention
This week, the democrats have found a new witch to burn. A pregnant 17-year-old girl.
While a part of me doesn’t want to even discuss this because of the obvious implications for Bristol Palin, I cannot sit quietly by while the media dogs tear apart a defenseless prey. This girl’s name has been dragged through the mud by the same people who dare accuse her mother of being the mudslinger. As if, by saying “No thank you, John McCain, I can’t be your VP because I have a pregnant daughter,” would have saved Bristol from public ridicule. Gov. Palin is a public figure.
By all accounts, everyone in Alaska knew about the pregnancy before we did, although it seems Alaskans have far more class and haven’t been salivating over the idea of taking down a republican through one of her children. What would have saved her from ridicule is if the media treated her as they treated Chelsea Clinton. The media, bloggers and democratic operatives are to blame for the abusive treatment this girl is getting. Any claim that it is her mother’s fault is absurd.
One thing they haven’t counted on is how many women are going to identify with this mother of 5, executive who runs a household, a state, loves a husband, sends a son off to war, deals with a teen pregnancy and cares for a special-needs child.
This is not a woman who seems above it all or out of touch. This is a woman who is just like us. There are plenty of women out there (some in my own family) who have faced a teen pregnancy and a special-needs pregnancy who made the same choices for life that this family has made. I know countless women who juggle to balance work and family and do it beautifully. They are excellent mothers and wives. I imagine all these women across the country sitting in their living rooms watching the slaughter of Sarah Palin’s character and family with horror. Is this how I would be treated in the public spotlight? Does my daughter, who is a young mother, deserve this kind of treatment and scorn? Is this what democrats really think about women? Are these people saying I can’t be a good mom while working?
Sarah Palin certainly has problems like anyone else, and challenges with parenting that only those with children can understand. To besmirch her family and their values is an attack on regular Americans with regular problems who are doing the best they can to raise kids in a culture so perverted that two teens who want to get married seems obscene while teens exposing their breasts on video seems normal. Anyone with a teenager today is going to look at Sarah Palin and her situation with compassion and understanding. Anyone who sees her daughter’s pregnancy as an opportunity to sacrifice Sarah Palin on the public altar doesn’t deserve our viewership, our readership or frankly, their jobs.
But Sarah Palin demonstrated tonight that she doesn’t need me or anyone to stand up for her and in fact, can send any detractor running for the nearest therapist. The number she did on Obama is going to sting for weeks. Being mayor of a small town is kind of like being a ‘community organizer’ except with real responsibilities…democrats love to talk about ‘fighting for you’ but there is only one man in this race who has actually fought for you.
This woman is not going to lie down and take the public beating. She’s going to swing back, and God love her, her punches ring true. Sarah Palin delivered a big blow to the democrats hot air tonight and may have sealed her place in history as America’s first female Vice President.
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