It's the Palin Stay at Home Sexist Double Standard

Via News Busters: New twist on the old media double standard: Strong pro-life women shouldnt accept far-flung speaking engagements. They should stay home (presumably barefoot and pregnant, too.) Strong pro-choice women, however, are welcome to champion womens rights, wherever and whenever they please.

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin recently gave a speech at a pro-life dinner in Indiana on April 16 and the media condemned her for not staying home and governing her state. But when U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently spoke to a Planned Parenthood group she was lauded as championing womens rights.

ABCs Good Morning America covered Palins speech and the controversy that ensued, stating that Alaska lawmakers, failing to mention they were mostly Democrats, are criticizing Palin for her out of state travel. Instead of focusing on Palins main pro-life points, GMA spent 50 seconds of the 64 second segment keyed in on her admission that she understands women who entertain the thought of abortion.

The mistreatment of Sarah Palin by the mainstream media is nothing new as CMI has noted the character assassination she suffered at the hands of the networks during her run for Vice President.

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• Palin
• sexism
• media bias
• Hillary

[zeecee1]

"criticizing Palin for her out-of-state travel" ....except she's traveled out-of-state waaaay less than just about every governor, the average governor makes over 40 out-of-state trips! Palin has only been gone 14 days for the entire session! Her predecessor was gone an average of 45 days, the guy before him, 38.

[siamiam]

why are you replying to me about this? where do you get that im a palin lover from??

i don't give a damn about the her abortion or religious issues, but why energy cost up here are higher then the rest of the lower 48

[fjwjr]

Don't you think that's the way it should be? It's like the umpire at a baseball game. The only time you really notice them is when they are screwing up.

[siamiam]

i sometimes forget i have a governor up here

:P