Palin prefers classifying criticism as infringements rather than addressing them. She prefers softball interviews on Fox News and using the vehicle of social media to avoid the prying of the "lamestream" media.
She prefers these things because it sidesteps her responsibility to own up to her methods, and they provide a smokescreen to protect her positions from those who oppose them. No, this isn't characteristic of a national leader...but what characteristics of leadership did George W. Bush have before his two terms as president?
We don't need a Palin-free month. We need to demand the real journalists out there to keep doing what they're supposed to do. They need to keep doing their jobs despite the other noise that goes on.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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