http://www.postchronicle.com/commentary/article_212170474.shtmlApparently Ted Anthony of the Associated Press thinks it is somehow "contradictory" of the GOP to show VP candidate Governor Sarah Palin's kids at the GOP convention on TV. He seems to imagine that, since the GOP objected to the media attempting to use the kids against Governor Palin, that the GOP shouldn't be allowed to have the kids attend the convention to see their Mother accept her nomination.
Anthony's "analysis" hit the nets on September 3, the day after Palin's wonderful acceptance speech on night 3 of the proceedings. Naturally, the AP trolls our left leaning universities to find some "expert" to back up its claim that it is all wrong to show the proud faces of Palin's children looking up at their Mother as she speaks to the convention.
"For two days, the chorus from Republicans on TV news and in the halls of the convention," Anthony scoffs, "has been resounding: Back off and let the Palin family be. 'That's out of bounds,' said Minnesota's Republican governor, Tim Pawlenty. 'There's no need to be intrusive and pry into that.'"
After this, in accusatory tones, Anthony recounts the many times that Sarah Palin's children appeared on TV during the convention. And then he goes for the supposed "expert" for his opinion...
"Either the children are out of bounds, and you don't put them in the photo ops, or you don't complain when somebody wants to talk about them. You can't have it both ways," said John Matviko, a professor at West Liberty State College in West Virginia and editor of "The American President in Popular Culture."
"Right now, it looks like they're being used by the campaign more than the media are using them," he said.
And why is this an either-or, again? Who says there is any such silly black and white rule that says that kids cannot be used at all or that they are fair game to be destroyed by the media if they are shown waving to a crowd? What an absurd claim.
Seriously, the media tries to claim that Palin is a bad Mother, they've pried into the life of a pregnant teen, and they clamored for DNA proof that the kids were even Sarah's in the first place and when told they stepped over the line what is their reply? "Well, YOU showed them on TV," Anthony is saying, "So why can't we try to destroy them?"
And, after asking his ridiculous questions and making it seem as if just showing these kids being proud of their Mother is child abuse, after seeming to claim the high road for himself, and after making out as if the media is innocent in all this, Anthony gives us this hypocritical statement:
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