Today, instead of talking about a major gaffe by Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, the media is talking about a Karl Rove-ian smear tactic. Senator Obama clearly was talking about Bush's policies, NOT Sarah Palin, when he made a comment about "lipstick on a pig," but the McCain nutcases are trying to say he was talking about his vp pick just because she made some reference to lipstick in a joke. This is so ridiculous that it's not really worth going into - except to say that if McCain had any integrity at all he would call a press conference, apologize to Barack Obama, and fire everybody involved. Shame on him if he doesn't.
In much more important news, a couple of days ago Sarah Palin said something that should have been picked up by every media outlet and run ad nauseum, but it was not. She said that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac "had gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers." Ahem. Apparently Ms. Palin hasn't gotten to Economics 101. As anybody who knows anything about economics knows, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were private companies until the government just recently bailed them out. She got this very important economic news exactly bass ackwards, and yet you would be hard-pressed to have heard anything about it in the news media. And she's refusing to give interviews because the press isn't deferential to her??? What the press isn't doing is their JOB. Since McCain didn't vet her, the press and the public need to, and when the vice presidential nominee, whose experience and qualifications for the job is in serious question, then this is the kind of information the press should be paying attention to -- not some ridiculous brouhaha about a common expression.
