Talk Left on Palin Family Values

[deminks]

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/9/3/32243/51143

On Sunday, before the news about Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter was announced, I initiated a ban on TalkLeft prohibiting mention of her personal or family matters. I was one of the only, if not the only, liberal blog instituting this policy.

I was determined that my criticism of her, which has been limited to her lack of experience and preparedness to take over the Presidency if the need arises, her record and her lack of record while in Government service, the pending allegations of misuse of power while in office, and her position on issues, not be misconstrued by others as an attack on her gender or her personal life. By never mentioning her personal and family issues, I thought that it would be clear that gossip, rumor and innuendo of a personal nature were not related to my criticism.

Readers on both sides were upset with my decision. Some wanted to praise her, others want to point out her hypocrisy given her adverse positions on teaching sex-ed and making birth control available, even in her state which has one of the highest rates of sexually-transmitted diseases in the country. I have spent hours deleting comments and banning commenters who violated my ban over the past few days. That's fine. Almost all of the comments were objectionable under any standard, and I refuse to have a site that bears my name be associated with them.

Now, I feel tooled.

(snip)

There's no longer any reason to be silent. Palin gave up these kids' privacy, possibly to benefit her vice presidential bid. Whatever the reason, now that she's parading them on tv, she's forfeited the right to ask for privacy. They are now fair game to discuss.

(end snips)

More at the link, it is a good read.

[tavalon]

1. I didn't think it could get any weirder

Clearly I don't know the Republicans and especially the rabit right wing fundy whackadoos as represented by Sarah Palin. This really borders on child abuse.

[Wednesdays]

2. Thank you Jeralyn! Someone finally gets it

After all the handwringing and screaming calls of "Leave the daughter alone!", it never dawned on anyone that it was Palin herself that held the press conference to announce her daughter's pregnancy to the world.

And then we're not supposed to talk about it? :banghead: