It has now been a year since John McCain destroyed any chance of winning by picking a running mate who turned out to be totally ignorant of the issues and incapable of handling any government position beyond Mayor of Wasilla. Big Hollywood, the right wing blog which was established to counter what they see as left wing influence on culture, has a particularly absurd article from John Ziegler on Sarah Palin. I could go through it and point out all the ridiculous statements made but there is no need as Mudflats has done an excellent job of debunking it.
I’ll just point out one section. Perhaps the most absurd claim made by Ziegler was in comparing Palin to Obama:
That to the media if you are a young, good looking, charismatic, non-white male without a long resume and are a conservative running for Vice-President, you are an embarrassment to the country. But if you are a young, good-looking, charismatic, non-white male without a long resume and are a socialist running for President, you are the Second Coming.
Beyond the absurdity of calling Obama a socialist, Ziegler misses the tremendous differences between Obama and Palin. Mudflats mentions just a few:
Ah, now I see. Their resumes are the same length. The fact that one line says “Constitutional Law Professor” and the other says “Mayor of Wasilla” doesn’t matter. President of the Harvard Law Review vs. Sportscaster? They each take up one line, so let’s not quibble. And actually if you add up Sarah Palin’s college career, it’s five lines on a resume because she went to five different schools. Obama only went to two, so HA! She’s more edjicated.
