Parenting: July 2009 Archives

It took the obstinate and abstinent Sarah Palin, "natch," to puncture the thick prophylactic of MJ media coverage. She and her spokesperson, Meg Stapleton, managed to characterize her resignation as a heroic act.

Palin lamented that the biggest problem facing our nation is apathy, and with that, she announced that she'd walk away from the final 18 months of a four-year term. Stapleton put a nice spin on that, saying that Palin can't make change within the current political system, so she's looking for other, unspecified ways to make change.

So the woman who said she'd bring change to America now complains that she can't change Alaska because people don't play nice. But what would a maverick do...?

Palin at her presser used a basketball analogy, saying that a point guard must break a full-court press by racing down court and then finding someone else to hand the ball off to. Stapleton, speaking later to an incredulous Anderson Cooper, repeated the analogy. When he failed to get it, Stapleton responded with a marvelous, booming and condescending laugh, arguing something about how Palin "passed the ball off, and said I'm going around it, and we all have the same common hoop, but I'm going around the block." Huh?

I guess what bugs me is the old issue we've dealt with around here too many times: Media "bias." Palin and Stapleton engaged in the most disingenuous game today, clumsily attempting to frame her resignation as a profile in courage and wisdom. The only people who will buy any of it are the diehard partisans. And those are the same persons who lament how any push-back from an Anderson Cooper represents reprehensible and insufferable ideology. For such persons, all nature will look like a conspiracy against them.