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Rank Sexism Dripping From CNN
Strata-Sphere ^ | at 6:44 pm under 9/22/08 | Published by AJStrata

Posted on 09/22/2008 4:26:40 PM PDT by Perdogg

The Situation Room (the lair of “Wolf” Blitzer - how’s that for irony) has done it again. I am fairly certain it is simply echoing slimey DNC and Obama camp talking points, meant to be subtle swipes at Governor Sarah Palin. Here is how it played out today (links and video if/when available).

Trying to set up the fact Sarah Palin would be meeting with 9 top world leaders this week (including the heads of Iraq, Afghanistan and Georgia) the CNN video related Palin’s schedule with “speed dating”.

It was a crass and demeaning analogy clearly sexist in its context and message. No one claimed Obama was “speed dating” with world leaders in is most excellent world tour this summer. And the impression is not to be glossed over. The term speed dating conjures images of desperation on the part of a woman. Clearly, with her family situation, Sarah is not in need of speed dating anyone. It was a gutter-level swipe at women in a man’s world.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; cnn; foreignpolicy; liberalmedia; mccainpalin; palinattacks; palinping; propagandawingofdnc; sexism; un

1 posted on 09/22/2008 4:26:40 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

Is it Wolf Blitzer talking? Wolf Blitzer is betraying his fellow sisters by using sexism against Govl Palin.


2 posted on 09/22/2008 4:29:07 PM PDT by Stepan12 (Palin & Bolton in 2012)
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To: Perdogg

Sarah approves hunting errent Wolves!


3 posted on 09/22/2008 4:30:10 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Perdogg

Sarah does everything fast
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2074834/posts


4 posted on 09/22/2008 4:32:25 PM PDT by ari-freedom (We never hide from history. We make history!)
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To: Perdogg

The left, including its minions in the MSM, have no trouble at all attacking Gov. Palin because she’s a woman. Imagine what they would be saying about her if she were black. Only a complete idiot could even imagine that the left stands for gender or racial equality; it’s a master/servant relationship between blacks and the Democrat Party, and the plantation mentality still prevails.


5 posted on 09/22/2008 4:33:02 PM PDT by Spok (The Sinopian Sage)
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To: Perdogg
Not sure I follow you. Don't men also speed date? How is it sexist to compare this to speed dating?

Maybe I have a different perspective, but I see speed dating as an efficient method for meeting a lot of people in a short amount of time.

I agree there's a double standard for Obama, but I would chalk that up more to left wing bias than sexism. If Hillary was the nominee, they'd still do whatever they could to belittle the Republican Veep.
6 posted on 09/22/2008 4:33:53 PM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (Pontius Pilate voted "Present")
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To: Question Liberal Authority

Men use speed dating, but they are applying the analogy only to Palin.


7 posted on 09/22/2008 4:35:26 PM PDT by Perdogg (Sen Robert Byrd - Ex community organizer)
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To: Perdogg

These folks don’t get out much. They’re so sequestered that their interrelationships become...well...incestuous. They never hear both sides of an issue or have to try very hard to validate their ideas. Their intellectual DNA is breaking down along with their ratings.

In a Darwinian world, Wolf, a beta dog for sure, is going to end up on the low end of the food chain. It would be fitting if the end came as a result of an Alaska Brown Bear (in a symbolic sense, of course).


8 posted on 09/22/2008 4:37:54 PM PDT by downtownconservative (Intelligence sans reason is vainglorious pulp)
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To: Stepan12

Sexism targeting conservatives doesn’t count.


9 posted on 09/22/2008 4:38:20 PM PDT by nobama08
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To: Perdogg

Shoot Wolf from a helicopter.


10 posted on 09/22/2008 4:39:59 PM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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To: Red_Devil 232
Sarah approves hunting errent Wolves!

In blitzer's case, the plural is "woofs."

11 posted on 09/22/2008 4:40:38 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Man, that's stupid ... even by congressional standards.)
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To: Perdogg

Ya’ know, we all know that they’re morons . . . I took CNN off my remote a couple years ago when they bought video from a terrorist sniper who shot and killed one of our G.I.s and then broadcast it that evening. Despicable bastard$. However, aren’t we kneejerking these clods a bit too much . . . and sounding a bit like them?

We know that PMSNBC and CNN are thugs and goons for Hussein Obama . . . and that they can’t stand Palin . . . but I hate to jump like they do every time some stupid a$$ says something disgusting about Palin. We all know she’s great . . .


12 posted on 09/22/2008 4:44:10 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: Alouette

Palin’s a player, Obama’s a pretender:
http://www.runnerspace.com/video.php?do=view&video_id=3830


13 posted on 09/22/2008 4:47:23 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Perdogg

Unless one is in San Francisco, P-town or Key West, doesn’t the term “dating” infer two sexes?


14 posted on 09/22/2008 4:49:05 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Perdogg
Obama wasn't speed dating in Germany. He was hosting a spectacle, analogous to a rock star tour or the Nuremberg Rallies, depending on your inclination. Obama is all about Obama. Palin is actually trying to learn and grow.

A different analogy could be used. It could be said that Palin is like a student trying to cram for a final exam. However, the same thing could not be said of Obama. Not because of sexism, but because Obama is acting like a kid who doesn't think he needs to study for an exam.
15 posted on 09/22/2008 4:50:53 PM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (Pontius Pilate voted "Present")
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To: Rebelbase

Actually, I do believe in San Francisco it would apply to all FIVE present in that city......


16 posted on 09/22/2008 4:58:47 PM PDT by Nekman (Liberals: Beliefs built on nothing but Lies.....no wonder they all take Prozac!)
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To: Perdogg

Wolf Blitzer, obviously a made for TV name, was a nobody until Desert Storm found him shaking in Baghdad. He’s still a marginal personality on a marginal cable network, but what the heck?


17 posted on 09/22/2008 6:17:53 PM PDT by billhilly (I was republican when republican wasn't cool. (With an apology to Barbara Mandrell.))
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18 posted on 10/09/2008 9:54:17 AM PDT by timestax
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To: Perdogg

bttt


19 posted on 10/12/2008 1:06:05 PM PDT by timestax
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To: timestax

BTTT


20 posted on 10/14/2008 8:49:44 AM PDT by timestax
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