The New York Times took on Joe Biden in my previous post, painting him as a great guy who just wants to give his family a good life in a pleasant, beautiful domicile. How do they treat Sarah Palin? Let’s check the headline: As Governor, Palin Has Focused on Developing State’s Resources. The underlying premise is “sure, she did well in Alaska, that state with the tiny population out in the middle of nowhere, but, does that mean she knows anything else? Can she really run a country? Does she have the right stuff? Does anyone really know anything about her?”
When Gov. Sarah Palin meets Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Thursday in the vice-presidential debate, even her fellow Alaskans might hear for the first time some of her views on health care reform, education policy and other issues of state government.
Yeah, because that 80% + approval rating was based on the wind. Let’s go to the next two paragraphs.
In her 22 months in office, Ms. Palin has not addressed many of those matters in a significant way, pursuing a narrower agenda rooted in Alaska’s resource-based economy.
Ms. Palin has approved increased spending for education and the elderly, sued the federal government for listing the polar bear as a threatened species, and pushed for a bill that would have reduced state regulation of new medical facilities.
Hmm, that seems like education and healthcare policy. Here we go, though, the red meat for the liberals who read the paper
But by and large, oil and gas issues have dominated her tenure.
“You can’t think of another area where there’s been another drive or initiative coming out of the administration with the same level of intensity,†said Scott Goldsmith, a professor of economics at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Big Oil! Or, should that be written, Evil Big Oil! Obviously, she must be intimately linked with Big Oil, the destroyer of Gaia, the Bane of Liberal Existence, those evil people who jack gas prices up and harm the economy at the expense of the Middle Class! Yawn.
Interestingly, they actually do something they have yet to do for Barack Obama or Joe Biden, and delve in to several of the issues Sarah has been involved in, healthcare, education (remember, Alaskans do not know her positions, according to the Times), trade, environment, elderly, budget, and social issues. In each and every one, the Times attempts to put in a little rejoinder that spins what Palin did as not so good. Consider environment, which is not so subtle
Ms. Palin has taken positions that reflect her support for developing Alaska’s natural resources. Her views are largely in line with those of voters in her state, but not with environmentalists.
And, in Liberal World, to hell with the 80%+ people who support her, the environmentalists come first.
A good chunk of the story involves the oil industry, no surprise considering how important it is to Alaska, but, the constant mentions are, of course, meant to tie her to that EVIL industry, even when she is taking them on.
I’m waiting for the story on her house.
