Posted on 09/03/2008 8:29:34 AM PDT by zipper
She had enormous hair, I mean, vast hair, but I'm not going to hold that against her.
It was 20 years ago, after all, when Sarah Palin -- then Sarah Heath -- worked as a local sportscaster for KTUU in Alaska.
"The Iditarod, of course, is the biggie, but it's not the only mushing going on," she said. "This race is part of Gillingham's Beaver Roundup."
From the Beaver Roundup to the Republican Roundup. Is this a great country or what?
Tonight, Palin will address the nation as the Republicans' vice presidential candidate. Some people wonder if she was a smart choice. They point out that Palin doesn't have a lot of experience, that she didn't have a passport until last year, that she has a pregnant teenage daughter, and that 20 months ago she was the mayor of a town one-sixth the size of Collierville....Sure, Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden is a six-term senator and the ranking member on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. But has he ever had to relate to real people -- real Americans -- while wearing hair spray and panty hose?
(Excerpt) Read more at commercialappeal.com ...
The commenters there are divided... take a look and let me know what Freepers think!
Sexism masked as satire.
I am not sure. Has everyone forgotten that Ronald Reagan was a sports caster on the raido, before TV?
I am sick and tired of the media bias. Even the msm headline...Lieberman overshadows Bush. Ridiculous.
It is an attempt at satire that fails miserably.
I get the Memphis paper. Don’t read Caulkins too much. He thinks he’s cute. I started reading him again during the olympics - he had a few chuckles in the columns, but when I saw this today, I put him on my “Why Bother?” list again.
I was wondering who’d come up with that zinger first!
Yes, the Great Communicator!
Yes, this article is much better anyway.
Picking ESPN over C-SPAN
Rick Morrissey | In the wake of the news
September 1, 2008
Imagine a former TV sports reporter being a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Imagine someone running our country whose first dream in life was to be a sportswriter.
Would this be a good thing?
The initial, almost urgent thought is that knowing your way around a press box buffet line is not proper training for dealing with the likes of North Korea, though you haven’t stared down evil until you’ve eaten hamburgers cooked to NHL puck specifications. And possessing the ability to craft the sentence “Smitty Jones twirled a one-hit gem Friday” will not solve the education problem in this country.
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Well, the guy has never been to a square dance. If you want to see seriously, seriously big hair, hit a square dance in Texas. You can get injured. Her hair is just a little poofy.
Ah yes, “The Producers”. Dozens of hilarious quotable quotes....
It's an attempt at playful sexism by Geoff Calkins.
An aside, any guy named 'Geoff' is destined to be a loser in life. Either a 'journalist' at some 6th rate rag, a used car salesman, or a Pool Boy for some gay millionaire.
I think 'Geoff' is ultimately destined to be a Pool Boy.
I guarantee this is not satire.
You may real money for that rag? I read the obits on line and let the rest go.
Well, I hate to quit my subscription. I have a big Yellow Lab that just LIVES to get my paper in the morning. He is absolutely lost if the paper doesn’t come, and can’t understand why he can’t go look for it if I don’t let him out.
I read the letters to the editor (I know, they’re online, too) and sort of like to compare what’s on the front page to what I hear from reliable sources, like Rush...
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