MrStakhanovite wrote:
That’s such b***s***.
Obviously I didn't think it bs, or I wouldn't have posted it.
people love to act like they’d be paragons of wit and thoughtfulness if they had the same focus from the media on them. It would be far different story if you had people constantly parsing your speech, looking for mistakes. The longer you talk, the closer the chance you’ll say something stupid rises to 1.
Palin chose to enter the world of fame. I think she likes the negative attention and tries to use it to her advantage (lame media). It works well with the Tea Party folks. If you're going to enter politics, you had better be prepared to deal with scrutiny.
It’s the mother of all naïveté to think you can accurately deduce a person’s character and intelligence via media presentation (pro and con), because it’s nothing but a circus where showmanship and rhetoric make all the difference, and those two qualities are far from synonymous with intelligence. It’s nothing but a base and discredited form of behaviorism that was perfected on Bush, and now it’s being used on Palin.
My judgement of Palin's intellect comes from her own statements. Not from media's parsing.
Behind every media personality, there is a teeming network of circus masterminds and roustabouts, who handle the person and try to craft public perception to fit an agenda. Everything from public relations firms, pollsters, policy wonks, and intern fact checkers. CC was right to point out that Palin is gaffe prone, and she either has a bad team of people behind her, or she just ignores her handlers, which spells doom for her anyways.
Some of her political aids have resigned due to her unwillingness to follow their advice.
I’m amazed you think anyone at her level of media attention would actually read a newspaper. People like her, and Obama, and every right or left leaning pundit who does a daily show doesn’t read a paper either, they have teams of researches pouring over publications and blogs for them, and bringing them relevant material.
I would expect a former mayor and former governor to try to keep up with the news. She has no office at the moment and it would be reasonable to expect that she would have the time to read even her local paper.
Even you said you would leave the party if she were nominated.
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.