It’s interesting to note how “investigative” media, in recent days, have spent time and effort digging to uncover what they consider negative happenings involving the Republican vice presidential candidate, Gov. Sarah Palin, notes Grumpy Editor.
Grabbing attention Wednesday were two reports that ordinarily would be dismissed.
One reveals the Republican National Committee “spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize” Palin and her family via shopping trips to Saks Fifth Avenue and Nieman Marcus plus hair and makeup activities.
Now, if the Alaska governor did not receive these normal treatments for the vital campaign trail that involves facing highly-critical print and broadcast reporters, there probably would be cries that she looks dowdy and unbecoming as a candidate for the second highest office in the nation.
The revelation carried through to today's newspapers which carried an Associated Press 20-plus paragraph story, starting off with: "Who knew looking like a hockey mom was this darned expensive?"
The other article --- spanning two dozen paragraphs --- by a trio of Associated Press writers with an Anchorage dateline, criticizes the governor who “charged the state for her children to travel with her.” The focus is on her daughters, 17, 14 and 7.
As a mother, if the governor did not take her offspring with her, she would be roundly criticized for leaving them behind.
Digging into records, the AP trio tallies Palin and her daughters charged the state for 64 one-way and 12 round-trip commercial flights since she took office at the end of 2006.
While the writers attempt to inject the funded travel as shady, they also bury in the text:
• “The trips enabled Palin, whose main state office is in the capital of Juneau, to spend more time with her children.”
• “Alaska law does not specifically address expenses for a governor’s children.”
there no bailing Palin
Posted by: Delicious Monster | November 25, 2008 at 04:29 AM