Wednesday, September 10, 2008

The Press Corpse


"Excuse me, can I ask you a question? Who would you rather see in the position of vice-president, literally a heartbeat away from the presidency?

A lawyer who became a senator in 1973 at the Constitutional minimum age of 30, who has been a member of the Foreign Relations Committee for 11 years and serves as current chairman, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 until 1995, and who has served on the following subcommittees: Antitrust Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, Human Rights and the Law, and Technology Terrorism and Homeland Security, and who spearheaded many government policies including the Violence Against Women Act, which contains a broad array of measures to combat domestic violence and provides billions of dollars in federal funds to address gender-based crimes.

-OR-

A person who served for two terms on the city council of a town of just over 9,000 people from 1992 to 1996, became mayor of the same town from 1996 to 2002, and who was then elected governor of the fourth least populated state in the U.S. two years ago."

"How dare you be so blatantly misogynistic? That question just reeks of sexism. You should be ashamed, delving into peoples' personal lives like that. You people in the media, it's all smears with you! Ugly, hateful lies!"

"Oh, you're right, I'm sorry. How could I possibly ask questions about the qualifications of someone who may one day be in charge of the most powerful nation on Earth, being a mere citizen of that nation? It won't happen again. I’m going to go crawl back in my subservient, post 9-11/pre-Iraq War hole for another four years."

No comments: