Some stories are trash, plain and simple.Over the past year a high percentage of the "trash" stories have been about Sarah Palin. That's because reporters and columnists go to great lengths to find a Sarah Palin story. And sometimes they find one even if it isn't there.
Why?
Ask just about any political writer or Internet blogger. Few words will guarantee more hits to your web site than "Palin."
That is the main reason there are so many stories about Sarah Palin. Her name sells. People are fascinated with her.
How many other Governors made national news with their state of the state address?
How many other possible 2012 Republican nominees made news with their PAC site?
How many other celebrities and politicians get worldwide coverage every time they speak publicly?
Palin is arguably the best known woman in the world right now.
Of course, that notoriety is a double edged sword because people will look for anything and everything to write about. Stylelist.com may have taken the cake with maybe the most blatant non-story I have ever read.
It was obviously written just to stir up something about Sarah Palin to get Internet hits.
Let me save you the trouble.
Remember the $180,000 wardrobe that the Republican National Committee bought for Sarah Palin during the campaign. The one that the media made such a bid deal over in a sexist double standard frenzy. No one asked what the campaign spent on McCain or Obama's suits or members of their family - just Sarah Palin. Because plain talking, home spun, hockey mom Sarah Palin was a threat to the coronation of Barack Obama and had to be exposed at any cost by the agenda driven media.
It mattered not that Palin didn't ask for the clothes. That she didn't wear the clothes most of the time. Or that she wasn't going to keep the clothes. It was a way to make Josephine Six Pack look elite like everyone else.
Now the clothes are back.
The crack undercover team at Sylelist has exposed that the wardrobe never was donated to charity as promised by the Republican National Committee.
So where is it? In Palin's closet? In Rush Limbaugh's closet?
No. It is at the RNC packed up in plastic bags. And a spokesperson for the RNC says they just didn't get around to calling a charity to come pick it up.
60 Minutes Stylelist is not.
YAWN.
If you must read just to share in the sheer inanity of the story http://www.stylelist.com/blog/2009/01/26/palins-180-000-wardrobe-stuffed-in-trash-bags-not-donated/
By the way, the headline is PURPOSELY MISLEADING - "Palin's $180,000 Wardrobe Stuffed in Trash Bags, Not Donated." It makes it sound like the wardrobe has been thrown out.
But then again, it's Stylelist.Com. What do you expect?
2 comments:
Yeah, this is another one for the "Headline Does Not Match Story" section.
http://ohcrapihaveacrushonsarahpalin.blogspot.com/search/label/Headline%20Does%20Not%20Match%20Story
Sarah sells. Any excuse to put her name in a headline, they'll do it.
One gets the sense, though, that she doesn't really mind.
Because plain talking, home spun, hockey mom Sarah Palin was a threat to the coronation of Barack Obama and had to be exposed at any cost by the agenda driven media.
Sorry but that is absurd.
Sarah is a threat to the old money high ups of the RNC/GOP. That is who took her down and those are the people who smack her down every chance they get.
Real "hockey moms" -- which is a ACT and not real...she is a CAREER POLITICIAN not a "hockey mom" -- do not dress in clothes from Saks and Neiman Marcus. That is the only reason that was a story.
Constitutional Law profs, Ivy League J.D.s like Michelle, doctors like Jill Biden...now THEY wear Brooks Brothers and Donna Karan, not so-called "hockey moms".
I can hardly believe you guys actually still buy into that old "aww, I'm just a hockey mom" gag....Track only played hockey for one season.
Sarah Palin is taking you on a ride because she knows she can dress in a curve-hugging suit, wink at the camera and get your vote. I can't believe you're still falling for it.
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