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Just Name One Newspaper! Any Newspaper!

How does a question like “What newspaper did you read before accepting the vice presidential nomination from John McCain?” turn into Palin talking about how American citizens think Alaska is a foreign country?

Apparently Palin has either read every newspaper ever created or none at all. Do Alaskan cities have local newspapers? If so, why can’t she name one? Just one? She could have just named a newspaper out there that she has at least heard of that she didn’t really read, but at least knew the name of.

What is expected of someone who runs as a Republican vice presidential candidate? I mean, apparently all you need to do is not drool all over yourself while speaking, know how to read a little bit, talk in circles, make up your own questions in your head and answer them while completely ignoring the question that was initially asked. Oh Sarah, you’re lowering the bar more and more every time you open your mouth.

A candidate for any type of office in the United States should be just that–An educated, intelligent and on point candidate; not hours of entertainment. But hey, what the hell am I talking about? Look who was “voted” into the presidency for the past 8 years.

Via Blue Alto

                   

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Keating Economics

Something for you all to chew on for a bit.

                   

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It IS the Same as Palin’s Head on a Bikini-Clad Body

A picture of Sarah Palin’s head on a bikini-clad body is sexist and this picture, found over at Feministing and made by Ann, of Joe Biden’s head on a set of abs is also sexist.

First, the defense of the posting of this picture:

Indeed, this is a play on words. It’s a joke about Palin’s repeated use of the phrase “Joe Sixpack.” What sets this apart from, say, the photoshopped image of Palin’s head on a bikini-clad body, is that the point of the bikini image was, “Isn’t she HAWT?!” I’m not attempting a sweeping statement about gender here, or trying to take a cheap shot at Biden based on his looks, or trying to “level the playing field.” It’s a play on words. One that I found funny.

And when I prefaced it with a note that this explained my feelings on the debate, I meant the absurdity of her “folksy” turns of phrase. And really the absurdity of this entire election. Not that I came away from the evenings festivities thinking I wanted to see Joe Biden shirtless.

All that said, please keep debating this. (Respectfully, of course.)

Firstly, I am glad that Ann is encouraging debate about this image, but the fact that it greeted visitors going to their website to read the thoughts of the Feministing women on the vice presidential debate, because they usually have insightful and thought-provoking things to say, disappoints me.

While it is true that the response to a picture of Palin’s head on a half-naked woman’s body is usually “OMG SHE’S SO HAWT I’M TOTALLY VOTING FOR HER!!!111!!!!!” what if someone were to take this picture of Joe Biden, put it up on their site and say the same thing about him? Would it be sexist then, by Feministing’s standards? Of course it would, but because Ann defends her decision to post this picture by saying that it is a play on words, it is supposed to be accepted when it is simply not funny and indeed sexist behavior.

To point out every sexist picture and remark of Palin, as Feministing and other feminist blogs have been doing, even if we considered that some of the accounts were also defended as being a play on words, and then doing it yourself and claiming it is different is going backwards.

I find it ironic that during the vice presidential debate Biden brought up gender in saying that he knows what it is like to be a single parent yet not a lot of people know that or consider that possibility because he is a man and then finding a picture like this really makes you think about that whole gender equality thing. This picture is sexist and a woman who posts a sexist picture of a man is just as bad as a man posting a sexist picture of a woman.

Via Womanist Musings

                   

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VP Debate SNL Style

SNL did it again!