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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Media double standard on Sarah Palin

Excellent Letter to the Editor in today's edition of The Mercury from a reader who has voted for both Democratic and Republican candidates. The point is that voters should carefully consider the merits of each presidential ticket and not be led by the nose by the pro-Obama media.

Don't fall for the media's double standard on Palin

I read Donna Brazile's piece on Sarah Palin in The Mercury on Sept. 6. Mostly it is was very fair and balanced. What I was appalled at, again, was the last part about "can college-educated voters embrace her." There we go, only "uneducated people" will vote for someone like her. Check it out, even many college educated people don't believe in partial birth abortion (and the reason I bring that up is that's the main reason many women's groups aren't upset over how the press has treated this woman's family).

Many everyday Americans have sat around the kitchen table wishing a real person, like most of us, would come along. Here she is! Let's see what's a big question on her: She fired someone who would not check out allegations against a state trooper (her brother-in-law). There are 400 pages on this trooper over a number of years. He threatened to kill his father-in-law if he got a lawyer for his daughter's divorce; he drank beer in his patrol car while on duty. Check it out. The man who was fired said, "She the governor did what was right." Isn't it funny how the press can't wait to show police beating someone and when the governor tries to get one of the loose cannons off the force, they're up in arms? And yes, I believe the majority of police are decent people; we have many in our family.

I understand Alaska is being overrun with reporters seeing what they can get on her. Fair enough. Are any reporters running to Chicago to check out the papers on Ayres, the terrorist, to see how much, other than casually, Obama had ties to him? No, because they don't care. Anyone checking further on Resko's ties to Obama? No. Anyone checking on the Public Allies group that Obama founded in 1992 — check their thoughts out — to see if they are just another volunteer group? Nope. Anyone go and check what dates Obama sat in that racist church to see if he heard the Reverend's views? Nope! America get on your computers and check things out.

And by the way, George Bush is not running for president. Is anyone equating Obama with this do-nothing, 14 percent approval rating Congress? No. In Obama's speech in Europe he apologized for America, and he's ashamed we don't speak French. Maybe while he was over there he should have gone to see the graves of thousand of Americans who gave their lives to help the French. We are a downright mean country! Who has given more lives and money to other countries?

I have voted both Democratic and Republican - so, no, I'm not just a one-party person. And I'm not a racist as former Pres. Carter accuses people who are not for Obama. Believe me, every day I wish my candidate, Lynn Swann, was our governor.

Be very careful, middle America has finally got someone they can identify with — you know us gun toting, Bible readers. Make some lists, pros and cons. Be informed on your own — the press does not give you the truth. Their candidate is Obama and they will not investigate him.

God Bless America.

PAT HENNING
Limerick

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