The Sunday Strib published a HUGH piece by Sarah Palin

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

complete with color photos, on the first page of the op-ed section, all about why drilling in ANWR would be a good thing. No opposing views. I should have canceled my subscription ages ago, but I'm kind of addicted to the comics and the crosswords. But this is the last straw. Palin doesn't deserve to have her opinion on anything published anywhere; she's proved beyond all doubt that she's an ignorant fool. So finally, after 30 years or so, it's buhbye Strib. No wonder they went bankrupt.

[Pierre.Suave]

1. Rushes off to take another look at the Sunday Strib...

Seriously?

edit, I just found it. I don't think she wrote this, it has complete sentences... I think she dictated it to someone else.

[burf]

2. It'll be easy to figure out

if Palin authored the piece. Just go through and count the number of "you betchas".

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I have no doubt someone ghost-wrote it for her,

probably someone from Exxon-Mobil's PR department. But she doesn't deserve to be given any kind of soapbox, whether or not the actual words are her own. The Strib can bite me. Have you noticed lately how many of their columnists are right-wing asshats, and how few are liberal or even neutral? They've got Charles Krauthammer and David Brooks and George Will and Katherine Kersten and Steve Chapman and Mona Charon and Debra Saunders and fucking Jonah Goldberg! And about the only liberal columnists they publish any more are E.J. Dionne and Garrison Keillor, who really isn't a political writer. They aren't even trying to be "fair and balanced." So fuck 'em. Tomorrow I cancel my subscription. I can read the cartoons online and buy crossword puzzle books to satisfy my compulsion.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. Ironically, the pinheads who infest the online comments

keep nattering on about "liberal bias" and the "Red Star." They go after Nick Coleman like mad dogs, which makes one wonder why they read him if they hate him so much.

I never did more than glance at Kersten's column, and I never condescended to comment on her homophobic, anti-immigrant garbage. She always reminded me of the sweet-looking suburban lady types who say things like, "Well, I've never met an intelligent black person."

[dodger501]

12. I have a confession to make

I think I knew K. Kersten. Back in the very late 70s at Prudential on Hwy 12 (now 394). Believe Target owns it now.
If it is the same person, I met her at weekend intramural softball, they have their own field in back of the building.
Short gal, pretty much the same hairdo as she has today. Very nice, friendly, always smiling, played hard - I was team captain so noticed that. I was not very political back then and the subject never came up.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. I KNOW I've seen her

My choir sang for a funeral she attended, which was for a family member of a Strib employee. She looked exactly like her picture.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Imagine that...

That wasn't even printed in the Anchorage Daily News. :shrug:

[CatholicEdHead]

5. Avista wanted it in there

not the local editors.

[annm4peace]

6. Small neighborhood papers much better anyhow

Villager in St.Paul, Southside Pride in Minneapolis.

Sun in many towns have better writing and more truth to power.

Also online papers http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/ http://minnesotaindependent.com/

another but I find more conservative and more corporate like: http://www.minnpost.com/

[Pierre.Suave]

7. Thanks for the links

I appreciate it.

[glinda]

8. You have to know the market though

and it is elderly, poorer and people who do not have access to computers that read the Strib. This article was aimed specifically at the TC. Specifically. I think she is campaigning and will make a run. My parents, strong strong die hard Republicans hate her and voted Dem for the very first time. She scares the crap out of them.

[dflprincess]

9. Given what they charge for daily delivery

I doubt that poorer people are reading the Strib at all unless they're like my mom and only get the Sunday paper.

[Pierre.Suave]

11. Thats all I get

but I am beginning to wonder why I bother anymore...

[glinda]

14. By "poorer" I mean those who cannot afford internet hookup or computers and

there are many many of them. We at DU think that everyone is like us but that is far from the truth. THe Strib is brought all over the State. It is also read for free at restaurants, etc.... After living in two different Cities in this State, north of the Cities, more than half of the folk I have met do not have a computer at all.

[dflprincess]

15. My mother would fall into the category of not being able to afford an internet hookup or computer

though, even if she could, she's phobic about computers. She uses her age (85) as an excuse but her older sister loves her computer and the net so I tell her that just doesn't cut it.