Palin Signs With FOX. Now That’s Scary
Well surprise, surprise. Sarah Palin has signed on with FOX News. You know, that’s the cable channel that touts “fair and balanced” coverage. If you’ve watched it, particularly the Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity shows, you will realize that it is neither “fair” nor “balanced”. Now with the addition of Palin, we can add “unbalanced”.
I do however, give this woman high marks for knowing how to take advantage of her 15 minutes of fame and make the leap from “just an ordinary hockey mom” to “MULTI-MILLIONAIRE MOM!” thanks to media coverage and the women out there who see her as a modern day Annie Oakley, rifle in one hand, baby in another and running for one of the highest offices in the land.
What makes me wonder is the fact that none of these women, particularly mothers, who seem to adore her, don’t question a mother who would haul around a baby with Downs Syndrome and subject that baby to the harsh lights and deafening noise of political rallies just so she can get a sympathy vote. She claims she loves her baby and I don’t doubt that, but there is a fine line between love and abuse.
Another thing, among many that bothers me about Sarah Palin, is her record. She loves to play up what she calls her solid political background, citing her term as mayor of Wasilla, an Alaskan town of about 7,000 when she served. I live in Las Vegas where we have hotels that employ more people than that.
But what interests me more is that Palin majored in journalism at the University of Idaho and worked part-time as a weekend sportscaster in 1988 for KTUU-TV in Anchorage. She apparently left after a few months because of the low pay. Her boss says she was a hard worker who enjoyed the entire process, not just being in front of the cameras. How much could she have liked it if she quit after a few months? She was single at the time so had no family to support. Almost every journalist I’ve know has struggled at the start, working for low pay but knowing they had to pay their dues. Not Palin. Can she not take the hard road or is she just restless, wanting to try other things?
Maybe the same thing happened as governor of Alaska. She quit that job with almost a year and a half left on her term and it was only her first term. Is this the kind of person Americans should even consider running for president? Does she not realize that we the people expect our president to finish out his or her term once we elect them?
It will be interesting to see how she does on FOX. I pity the team of experts that is assigned to prepare her for her segments. I can see it now:
Subject: Illegal immigration.
“Remember Sarah, when someone mentions illegal aliens, they don’t mean little purple people who are trying to come here from another planet. They will be talking mainly about Mexicans who live just south of our border (pointing at a map for her) and no, Mexicans cannot see Russia from Tijuana.”
Subject: The Mideast
“No, Sarah, the Mideast is not Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky. It’s way over here (again pointing at map).”
I could go on, but I think you get the picture. It’s not a pretty one.