[Publib] Palin's history

[Rebecca Tomerlin]

There is a difference between opinion and news (At least, there should be).

Palin attempting to fire a librarian during the same time frame that 
this librarian repeatedly refused to ban books is relevant to my 
occupation but *opinions* on Palin's faith, and her personal motivations 
are not.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/us/politics/03wasilla.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/us/politics/03wasilla.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin>

It seems like Peggy Noonan's article is opinion and the NYTimes article 
is a piece of news. Forgive me if I offend.

However, whether you agree with my Noonan assessment or not, I do 
believe that we need to distinguish the difference between opinion 
articles and new articles.

There is a good reason that they are usually found on different pages.

<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/us/politics/03wasilla.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin>


Tim Spindle wrote:
> Peggy Noonan <http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html>.
> *********************************************
> What political pundit wrote this???
>  
> Fred Beisser wrote:
> > You may be right, Sue.
> >
> > Some commentary from a well-known political pundit:
> >
> >> Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a
> >> feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload
> >> This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie
> >> and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an
> >> Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats
> >> mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because
> >> she is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because
> >> conservatives can smell this sort of thing -- who is really one of
> >> them and who is not -- and will fight to the death for one of their
> >> beleaguered own; because of all of this she is a real and present
> >> danger to the American left, and to the Obama candidacy.
> >>
> >> I'll tell you how powerful Mrs. Palin already is: she reignited the
> >> culture wars just by showing up. She scrambled the battle lines, too.
> >> The crustiest old Republican men are shouting "Sexism!" when she's
> >> slammed. Pro-woman Democrats are saying she must be a bad mother to
> >> be all ambitious with kids in the house. Great respect goes to Barack
> >> Obama not only for saying criticism of candidates' children is out of
> >> bounds in political campaigns, but for making it personal, and
> >> therefore believable. "My mother had me when she was eighteen…" That
> >> was the lovely sound of class in American politics.
> >>
> >> Let me say of myself and almost everyone I know in the press, all the
> >> chattering classes and political strategists and inside dopesters of
> >> the Amtrak Acela Line: We live in a bubble and have around us bubble
> >> people. We are Bubbleheads. We know this and try to compensate for it
> >> by taking road trips through the continent -- we're on one now, in
> >> Minneapolis -- where we talk to normal people. But we soon forget the
> >> pithy, knowing thing the garage mechanic said in the diner, and
> >> anyway we weren't there long enough in the continent to KNOW, to
> >> absorb. We view through a prism of hyper-sophistication, and judge by
> >> the rules of Chevy Chase and Greenwich, of Cleveland Park and McLean,
> >> of Bronxville and Manhattan.
> >>
> >> And again we know this, we know this is our limit, our lack.
> >
> >> Another Bubblehead blind spot. I'm bumping into a lot of _critics who
> >> do not buy the legitimacy of small town mayorship_ (Palin had two
> >> terms in Wasilla, Alaska, population 9,000 or so) and _executive as
> >> opposed to legislative experience. But executives, even of small
> >> towns, run something_. There are 262 cities in this country with a
> >> population of 100,000 or more. But there are close to a hundred
> >> thousand small towns with ten thousand people or less. "You do the
> >> math," the conservative pollster Kellyanne Conway told me. "We are a
> >> nation of Wasillas, not Chicagos."
> >
> > Looks to me as if the author is saying that mainstream America will be
> > voting.....
> >
> > Fred

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Rebecca Tomerlin, Automation Assistant
Porter County Public Library System
rtomerlin at pcpls.lib.in.us
103 Jefferson Street, Valparaiso, IN 46383
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