Interesting contrast

I think its been very revealing to see the incredible contrast in media treatment between Sarah Palin and Caroline Kennedy.  Palin, who has a specific record to run on, was treated by the media as a totally unqualified embarrassment, while many of the same media people seem to have no problem in handing “Princess Caroline” a Senate seat, when she has absolutely no qualifications other than her famous name.  As usual, Jonah Goldberg sums it up pretty well:

Now, I know the comparison between Palin and Caroline Kennedy is not perfect. Each has strengths where the other has weaknesses, and the jobs of senator and vice president aren’t identical (the former actually has more responsibility, for starters).

But the comparison is nonetheless revealing. Palin’s selection triggered troughs of bile, vomited up from nearly every respectable liberal quarter. A Florida congressman, and Obama surrogate, insinuated that Palin was a “Nazi sympathizer” and anti-Semite (she’s not, but Caroline Kennedy’s grandfather was). Her by-the-bootstraps story was ridiculed by nearly every ex-debutante newsreader and avowed “feminist” in America.

Meanwhile, Caroline, with a resume perfectly suited to being a Kennedy and little else, is a Cinderella who deserves a Senate seat because, well, she just does.

Of course, media bias couldn’t have anything to do with it… could it??

Update:  Here is Victor Davis Hanson’s excellent take on this subject.

Something else for Al Gore to worry about

Too funny… had to post in its entirety:

December 19, 2008

Letter to the editor
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but I have detected a new crisis that I have named “the daylight change crisis”. I first noticed it sometime around the end of June this year. I started paying attention and created computer models and sure enough I was right! We are losing daylight at an astonishing rate. Each day we are losing approximately 2 minutes of day light and my computer models predict total darkness by next July.

I have been able to detect this phenomenon around the entire Northern Hemisphere. And here is the scary part: the day light appears to be leaking to the Southern Hemisphere.

I thought I should bring it to the attention of great scientists like Al Gore so he can help solve this new crisis.

Richard Strimple

“The stupidest governor in the country”…

…is how Michael Barone describes Rod Blagojevich in his recent column detailing the long history of corrupt and stupid incidents during Blago’s political career.  As another columnist put it in reacting to Barone’s piece, the case is made that Blagojevich is not crazy, just stupid.

Also…notice how the running joke in the last few days seems to be inserting “bleeping bleep” into sentences.  John McCain did it last night on Letterman and I’ve seen a couple of others do it too.

Thank you so much, Governor B, for this contribution to our public lexicon.

One ironic sidenote:  My sister forwarded to me some info on the 100th Anniversary celebration at my old high school in Chicago.   One of the pieces was a listing of famous alumni of the school.  Right there among Johnny Weismuller (Olympic swimming gold medalist and original “Tarzan” in the movies) and John Podesta (heading Obama’s transition team) was America’s stupidest governor… Rod Blagojevich.   Lovely!!

Justice finally served

Notice the paper the cartoon comes from (upper right corner)…

Ouch!

Another Chicago crook

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich just arrested for trying to sell Barack Obama’s Senate seat…

Nice!!!

Update:

Not just a crook… but a stupid crook:  See his public statement from yesterday saying that “everything I say is legal” and “go ahead and tape anything I say”…

Shades of Gary Hart: “Follow me if you want… you’ll be bored” just weeks before the exposure of his affair with Donna Rice torpedoed his presidential bid.

Bailouts and such