Where are you NOW?
What bespectacled young lady can strike fear into the hearts of mortal liberal men? Can draw attention long after any attention is necessary? Can have the Chicago Tribune’s Washington Bureau breathlessly tracking her every move, both past and present? Has absolutely no national political platform but is still being denigrated long after any such slander will prove beneficial to the “Chosen One”?
It’s a Governor. It’s a mother. It’s Super Palin.
Weeks after failing to secure the loneliest job in Washington D.C. Sarah Palin is still scaring the living laxative out of the alleged news media. In a recent “news story” covered by the aptly named The Swamp section of Chicago Tribune writer Frank James (probably not Jesse’s brother) was granted column space to alert readers to the fact that Governor Palin wears ladies underpants. Stop the freaking presses!!!
The breaking news of Pantygate was brought to the public’s attention by Jeanne Cummings of Politico.com. and regurgitated by Mr. James. Old Frank had better work on getting better stealth sources if he wasn’t able to crack this blockbuster himself. Ms. Cummings is credited as being the first to write about the $150,000 spent by the Republican National Committee on Governor Palin’s campaign wardrobe. Ms. Cummings is now reporting that an additional $30,000 was spent at such stores as Dicks Sporting Goods and Victoria’s Secret.
To be fair to Mr. James and his crack group of covert sources it appears that there was no “Deep Thong” disseminating this most privileged inside information. Ms. Cummings has apparently gotten a copy of the RNC’s expense report and was given ample time to review it line by line. She gleefully reports that $350 was spent at a New York Skin Care and Day Spa. $350? In New York? I’ve never been to a day spa in New York, or anywhere else for that matter, but I’m guessing $350 didn’t get Governor Palin much more than a new coat of nail polish and a shoulder rub.
Along with Dick’s and Vickie’s her “report” goes on to list purchases at The Limited, Foot Locker, Wal-Mart and Toy’s R Us. This is the type of cutting edge reporting the country has been yearning for. No longer will we be kept in the dark about where an unsuccessful Vice Presidential candidate buys her underpants and crew socks. It further goes on to detail money spent on hairdressers and a fashion consultant. So I guess what they are reporting is that the Alaska Governor did not have a traveling hair team and may have needed some fashion guidance so as to prevent her from showing up at the United Nations to meet world leaders wearing a florescent orange hunting coat and an Elmer Fudd hat.
I would expect this level of hard hitting news coverage from the National Enquirer rather than the Chicago Tribune. Except that the National Enquirer may have standards that are a bit higher when it comes to reporting that is so blatantly sexist. All throughout the campaign Sarah Palin’s wardrobe was compared to the other candidate’s wives. The Governor of Alaska and Vice Presidential candidate was being judged on what she wore compared to other women not other candidates. She was scrutinized, analyzed and evaluated on every stereotypical level, from her clothes to her ability to be a caring mother. In comparison, the racially stereotypical overtones were blatantly obvious by their omission in that nobody said a word regarding the fact that He Whose Name Shall Not Be Spoken was playing basketball more often than he was debating John McCain. Nor do I recall anyone asking him why he removed the price tag from his baseball cap, or if he smoked menthols, drank malt liquor, or was going to have custom rims put on the presidential limo. But yet at every turn what Sarah Palin was wearing, how her hair was done, what kind of jewelry she was wearing, the height of the heel’s on her shoes, how she carried her baby and dealt with her children was covered at great length. Through it all the nationally recognized stalwarts of gender equality, both individually and as a group, remained as quiet as the women in the kitchen while the men are having their brandy in the study. Even now in this rehashing of the same old same old there is no mention of where Joe Biden buys his boxers or if he himself has ever been to a day spa.
The information contained in this alleged news story does nothing but reaffirm everything there is to admire about Sarah Palin. It confirms that she does indeed have small town home spun values in that she needed assistance in preparing her look for the big stage. It confirms that she is personally fiscally responsible and did not own the necessary wardrobe or bejeweled accessories so as to be prepared to have her picture snapped millions of times and printed in every newspaper around the world. It confirms that she is not a self-biographing millionaire and needed some assistance paying for all this high priced costuming. None of these things are news, she admitted to all of them early on. More importantly none of these things are negatives unless you twist it by reporting only the price tags and not the story behind it, which is exactly what the Tribune has done.
Frank James and Jeanne Cummings covered everything from what was spent on hairdressers to where Sarah got her underclothes. Not a word was said about any of the custom tailored suits, silk ties or starched shirts for either of the Democrat candidates. Or even where any of the now one billion dollars of campaign contributions came from for the Democrat ticket. Imagine that, one billion with a B in donations to the Democrats and nobody questions where it came from much less how that is even possible, but let Sarah Palin buy a pair of Victoria’s Secret fancy pants and the Tribune has their Washington Bureau news hounds sniffing around for a story.
This constant muck raking and lambasting make it apparent that many in the liberal leaning media are still pretty worried about the future of one Sarah Palin. They remain offensively offensive in their sexist attacks of her, rehammering and reshaping old news in an effort to damage her politically. Not for the here and now as the Governor of Alaska but for the future and what she might become.
This piece of news drivel by Mr. James ended with the line “That’s one expensive hockey mom. You betcha.” Perhaps the “expensive” he was referring to was that Sarah Palin is causing some additional expense in the shorts cleaning of these liberal hacks.
Are they scared?
You betcha.
