Posted on 10/22/2008 2:48:27 PM PDT by Starman417
Caryl Rivers, Professor of journalism at Boston University and Huffington Post writer, once wrote this about the media obsession with Kathleen Harris and her appearance:
...journalists, talk show hosts and comedians have been having a field day with the powder and mascara used by Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris. She burst onto the national scene trying to certify Texas Gov. George W. Bush as the winner of the state's electoral votes, undoubtedly not expecting her cosmetics to get almost as much ink as Florida's dimpled and undimpled chads.Harris--whether you see her as a heroine or a diehard partisan--has become the inheritor of a growing trend in American politics. The men can look like unmade beds and that fact goes unmentioned, while the bodies, hair and makeup of women receive intense scrutiny. The philosopher Susan Sontag refers to it as "the double standard of aging."
The scrutiny of Harris has been unrelenting, and largely unflattering. A profile in The Washington Post noted that Harris' lipstick was of "the creamy sort that smears all over a coffee cup and leaves smudges on shirt collars," that she "applied her makeup with a trowel" and compared the texture of her skin to that of a plastered wall.
A Democratic operative labeled her Cruela deVil, the villainess of "102 Dalmatians," and the term got repeated everywhere. The Boston Globe said maybe she was planning to unwind at a drag bar, because of all her makeup, and the Boston Herald called her a painted lady. Jay Leno called the election "tighter than Katherine Harris' face."
The reaction to Harris underlines an unspoken fact of media life: Men's appearance is almost always unremarkable and unremarked upon, while women's is nearly always to be remarked upon, often to the exclusion of other qualities.
Eight years later and its still a fact of media life. Men's appearance is hardly ever remarked upon while a woman's is put under a microscope.....like it or not...that's the facts. The RNC understood this and spent 0.15% of their budget to outfit Sarah Palin to the tune of 150 grand and now it's a big deal:
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She looks like a million bucks!
Funny. And all this time I thought they wanted to focus on the “issues”. Silly me.
They aren’t too interested in Biden’s finances, though. Or Obama’s.
Drat. Bad news.
(One could only wish that her wardrobe was nothing ....
Worth every penny!
.....but they only spent $150K. What a steal! This is a drop in the bucket compared to what Michelle Obama or Hillary spend. But of course, we'll never hear about that.
Send Politico and leftist to China.
If there is one group of sick and jealous people, that would be liberals.
Go Sarah, you are beautiful outside and inside!
I don’t know how to post pics but if they put Sarah Palin in more boots like this: http://www.mofopolitics.com/2008/10/21/rnc-spending-150k-for-palin-fashion/
I will gladly contribute to the Sarah Palin fashion fund.
Link to whole article here....link messed up somehow
http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/10/22/sarah-palins-wardrobe-much-ado-about-nothing/
Makes you wonder how much Senator Biden’s plugs cost him...that and his botox treatments.
I like his forehead never moves.
If only American companies ROI was as great... :)
I am so proud of her I could burst. What an amazing woman.
I see courage, intelligence, a genuine love of people and our nation as a whole, love for family and a deep love for God.
I would thank John McCain for bringing this woman to the forefront of our nation a million times over were I ever to meet him.
The MSM has to do whatever they can to keep the focus off of ACORN; after all, they probably donate money to ACORN in order to advance their heinous agendas.
And just who pays for Obama’s expensive suits and silky ties?
Ayers?
There's an self confidence that enhances the outer beauty.
That would be sure to set the moonbat pundits back even one more peg.
So it’s suspect when the McCain campaign spends $150K to outfit Sarah, but it’s OK for the Obama campaign to give $800K to thugs at ACORN.
Following the white rabbit . . .
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