Zonie63
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Sarah Palin makes a salient point. Even the knuckle-dragging Pablum©-pukers will have to admit to a double-standard.
Perhaps there's a double-standard, although I don't think that news organizations digging up and reporting personal stuff on politicians is anything new. I don't know that anything has been declared "off-limits." Sure, there's always going to be people who complain about what the press reports and what they say about politicians or other public figures. It's the usual mud-slinging of politics. Both sides are guilty. Both sides have their own double-standards.
As for the press, they seem to be mostly into the whole "celebrity gossip" thing, so they report a lot of the personal stuff about politicians - which gives them a good excuse to avoid the issues. I'll admit that it does tend to bother me that issues tend to get reduced in favor of gossip and mud-slinging, but the public seems to eat it up. But once politicians enter the arena and mix it up with the rest of them, tacitly accepting these kinds of tactics and the general tone of political rhetoric, I don't know if one has a leg to stand on to complain about the other side playing "foul ball."
Of course, politicians are going to be inconsistent, one-sided, biased - they want to win, so they'll sling mud, dig up dirt - and the press and the public want to hear every sleazy detail. But, yes, I suppose in the spirit of fairness and "equal time," the bullshit should be evenly distributed between both sides so as to avoid any inconsistency or double-standards.
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