Sarah Palin as runner-up in the Miss Alaska pageant (left) and as Governor of Alaska (right)
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Sarah Palin Continued...
Based on our class discussion yesterday, I thought I might point you toward two editorials I read this morning. The first is by Jack Shafer, and he writes about the media and the "appropriateness" issue we discussed in class. The URL for his piece is http://www.slate.com/id/2199121/. The second editorial is by Bonnie Fuller, who argues that Palin is exploiting her daughter's pregnancy and is forcing her to have a shotgun wedding. The URL for that piece is http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bonnie-fuller/sarah-palin-she-has-chose_b_123282.html. Please feel free to respond to either, or both, of these editorials on the blog. See you tomorrow.
Sarah Palin as runner-up in the Miss Alaska pageant (left) and as Governor of Alaska (right)
Sarah Palin as runner-up in the Miss Alaska pageant (left) and as Governor of Alaska (right)
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hey just a clarification,
yesterday when i said communism could work, i was using it as a debate tool, i in no way shape or form endorse communistic beliefs.
Sarah Palin would make a great VP if she didn't have ties to the oil industry (which is something that affects her political views and is not just a personal point), and the fact that she has a family and is a women should not be a factor of her political abilities, because the symbol for american justice, is a blindfolded person holding a scale, which means that we don't judge people on how they look or the what people around them do, but we look into what they are, and what they can bring to the table,and the people who wrote those stories, and blogged at the end of that seem to have forgotten the core values of what it means to be an American.
Thanks Zach (at least I think this is Zach). Nice picture, by the way. I often say things in class just to start a debate, or liven up the discussion, and your comment certainly did that. I encourage you to be as expressive as you want to be.
Interesting as some forms of politics may be to me "blah" (Sorry everyone who does truly enjoy them). I thought I could bring up another topic into our discussion. This topic has been brought up quite a few times, and something oddly enough I was very interested in ... How is it that the FCC is going to allow a MONOPOLY?? How will we continue to be protected if they are going to allow it to happen right under our noses and justify it by setting stipulations? The Sirius-XM merger For those who may not know much about satellite radio (ps it's amazing) may want to know about how the FCC is going to justify a monopoly?
http://consumerist.com/5029441/fcc-approves-sirius+xm-merger
and an article from the washingtonpost
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072503026.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2008072503697&pos=&s_pos=
Let me know what you think
dear lila,
the fcc is NOT an anti trust agency, and therefore does not care about entertainment monopolies, the actual people who care about monopolies are lawyers, more specifically anti trust agents, and the judicial branch of government. trust me when i say that as soon as the merger is complete, a couple thousand lawyers will hop on it as soon as they are physically possible.
oh and yeah, this is zack btw
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