Sarah Palin & Others Who Raised Hackles
When Indira Gandhi (photo above) was a candidate for the post of prime minister in India she was harshly described as a “dumb doll’ by even the strong men in her powerful party. Later, when Gandhi ruled with an iron hand she was described by her detractors and admirers as the “only man in her Cabinet of Ministers”!
The Times takes a look at the top women leaders with reputations for raising hackles. “It’s disgraceful what passes for controversy these days. From the media storm created last week, you would think Sarah Palin was the first moose-shooting anti-abortionist to ever take the world stage.
“Come to think of it, she probably is. But to really get tongues wagging back in the day you had to have a reputation for incest, torture, murder and stealing from the destitute.” More here…
The Independent believes that Palin power helped McCain draw level in race for the White House. More here…
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2 Responses to “Sarah Palin & Others Who Raised Hackles”
What did she (Palin) expect? That the media would treat her with kid gloves? That everyone would show her “deference” and not bother to investigate her past, her record, and any clue to her policy positions? She wants to be Vice President of the United States – of course people are curious about her. If she and McCain had truly been prepared for this announcement, they would have been ahead of every controversial story about her, instead of whining to the press that the big bad liberal media is bullying poor little Sarah. Either she's a tough hockey mom who can roll with the big boys, or she's an inexperienced hack forced to hide behind cries of sexism because she has nothing else to stand on. You can't have it both ways.
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