By LindaBeth
Everything I want to say about the hypocrisy around the rhetoric about Palin, and especially the Republicans' vomit-inducing use of gender rhetoric can be summed up by this brilliant analysis by "fake news" reporter Jon Stewart on the September 3, 2008 Daily Show:
In Canada, watch it on clip 2 here.
And in more The Daily Show-induced commentary....typically, I take the position that families and spouses/ partners are "off-limits" with regards to politics. But Stewart, in his interview with Newt Gingrich, makes an excellent point, which I think can help us forge a distinction between personal attacks on Palin's daughter (i.e., "what an irresponsible slut!") and dissonances between individual actions and beliefs and political positions. After all, "The personal is political."
(Here in Canada.)
Isn't it sad when politicians and pundits seem to get called on their bullshit more often by "fake news" shows than the "real" ones?
(Cross-posted to Smart Like Me.)
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