[lesser_satan]

He’s a real man, and he can take it.

[Finny]

He's a real man from a man's world, not a metro-man's suburban professional world. Real men don't watch Oprah and Barbara Walters, so how is it reasonable to expect a "real man" to take their public inquisitions? Real women would never demand it.

Being a "real man" doesn't entail sitting down with Barbara Walters or Oprah or Meredith Whozit or Matt Lauer so that "America" (i.e., American women who live vicariously through pop media) can "get to know Todd Palin." I would hope that we smitten females respect the man's dignity -- a concept the MSM doesn't begin to comprehend, especially when the object is a Republican.

I know a lot of real men -- including quite a lot of commercial fishermen -- and very few could take a publicly broadcast personal grilling by the MSM, let alone four years of them. IF TODD PALIN WISHES TO BE "SHY," WE SHOULD RESPECT THAT WISH, not be like pushy women and violate it because we think "a real mean can take it."