Posted by
Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Saturday, September 06, 2008 7:57:39 PM
We are such hypocrites. When it was announced that Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, was five months pregnant, the media pounced.
Did this damage Palin's preference for abstinence-only policies? Shouldn't she be staying home at this difficult time in her daughter's life? What about Palin's new baby, who has Down syndrome? Shouldn't he be getting much more of her time and attention? How can she be vice president and a good mother? Haven't critics forgotten that Palin has a husband to help?
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has five children. No one has asked her such questions.
(The above is part of a column
Cal Thomas wrote. See more of what Cal wrote below.)
One female journalist said to me it makes a mockery out of the Republican Party's family values platform. No it doesn't.
Speaking with some personal experience on these matters - our daughter experienced a premarital pregnancy and I have a brother with Down syndrome - I am astounded at the rush to judgment by so many in the media, a media that promotes what it then quickly decries. So who are the real hypocrites?
Many in the media are now questioning whether Sarah Palin has allowed her career and a "lust for power" to interfere with her family responsibilities. This is laughable. These same people have promoted women who work 12-hour days and dump their preschool children .
(Cal is right those on the left who are now judging Sarah Palin for going after the job of VP. are the true hypocrites. Read the rest of Cal's column
What Standards?)