Palin speaks out..

Obviously the primary central figure to my topic is Sara Palin.  If you have read any of my other posts or even read any newspaper you will have seen that Sara Palin is all over the news.  At one point her face was pictured in every newspaper on WSU campus, as well as other types of media.  However as we all know Palin was both positively and negatively displayed by the media.  At the beginning of the campaign Palin was displayed as a ploy by the Republican Party to gain the majority women’s vote.  However as the campaign progressed the biases in the media started to become visible.  This was mainly seen in the television news stations, which obviously chose their sides as to which campaign they supported.  The stations that were on the democratic side targeted Palin by slandering her name and questioning her stance on the abortion issue.  Some stations wrote story’s that exposed her family and mainly her daughters child and possible second child.  However the most public slandering of palin came after the vice presidential debate, where Palin was ridiculed by most types of news for her speech edicate when she used names to describe types of people as “Joe Six-Pack” and “Dave the plumber.”  Last week I saw two skits on the popular television show Saturday Night Live   where she was made fun of in a fake debate with Biden.

            Although most people only remember the negative press that Palin received during the election there was also a lot of positives that came with the negatives. Last week at the Republican Governors Association conference Palin addressed the media for the first time after losing the election.  According to many pollsters Palin made very smart moves during her first speech addressing the media about many of the accusation’s of her clashing with McCain among other issues.