Being the day after Palin's speech, I heard many comments today about her beliefs, background, and abilities. To me, her speech was far too harsh and far too cynical for me to even grow a mild like of her. I do understand that this was an acceptance of nomination speech (and therefore not geared towards Democrats, but to her own party), but I still feel that Palin really messed this speech up. Sure, the Republican Party can praise it all they want, why wouldn't they want to bash Obama (considering every speech I heard last night was a repeat of the prior one)? However, one must ask, who is Sarah Palin? She's a nobody from Alaska whose nomination came out of thin air, according to people from both parties. I don't think it was her place to critique Obama on such a classless level when in reality, Sarah Palin is one of the least qualified, most unknown people to ever have a place on a Presidential ballot. Maybe I'm just upset because all I heard were negative, whining comments and I'm used to listening to Obama speak not just positively of McCain/Palin, but of the hope and faith he has in the future.
This video is probably one of the most exhilarating things to come out of the coverage from this election, even though most Republicans will discount it as the liberal media, or worse, the mainstream media. However, the Daily Show targets younger viewers, including many who will most likely be voting for the first time this November, and even though it is mainly liberal already, there's a little hope that this reached an undecided voter. Even if it didn't, it's already causing controversy. CNN first showed the video this afternoon, and already top analysts were commenting on it. I think it just proves the point that the Republican Party has been especially two-faced in this election, and while all politics are corrupt, it does make it harder for them to validate their arguments against the Democrats.
I haven't followed the Daily Show since Indecision 2004, however, I certainly hope they do something similar for this election.
Also: The New York Times features an interesting article on Mr. Stewart. I thoroughly enjoyed it considering it's this program that made me even begin to take an interest in government (as seen in my touching fourth grade essay/picture book, "Who Do I Want to Vote For?")
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/arts/television/17kaku.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&em&oref=slogin
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Posted by Kristi at 7:23 PM
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well since I can't read the article while commenting, I must comment based on my memory of what I read in the article. Sarah Palin is "one of the least qualified candidates in history"? What? Are you sure you are not talking about Barack Obama? In modern political history (from 1932 to now), out of all the Presidential nominees for President from both parties, Obama is the least qualified candidate ever if you look at political experience or military experience. The truth is that while Sarah Palin's experience is minimal, it is still more than the top of the Democratic ticket: Barack Obama. Also, with her very few years of experience as Alaska's Governor, she actually got things done. She actually accomplished great things. She stood up to corruption. She fought what was wrong in both parties. She wasn't afraid to fight against what's wrong. She puts the people she's serving ahead of herself as opposed to Obama who puts his party/politics before his country. Sarah Palin has an 80% approval rating in Alaska. That means that many Democrats and Independents approve of the way she is handling her job. You talk about negativity? Did you listen to Obama's acceptance speech? Do you realize how many false lies/attacks he said about McCain? His entire speech was very negative. But besides being negative, it was FALSE lies/attacks on McCain. Sarah Palin's attacks, while also negative like Obama's, spoke the TRUTH about Obama and that is why it appealed to the American people. It secured and electrified the conservative base. That was what the speech meant to do. Did you hear Obama's speech? If you did, then Obama did the same thing by apealing to die hard radical liberals. You mention Republicans complaining about the liberal media. It's not that Republicans are complaining. It's just that it's the truth. All the basic channels are slightly more liberal than conservative. MSNBC is VERY liberal. CNN leans to the liberal side. the only channel that is conservative in the media is a channel I don't have, Fox News. And on that channel, Democrats actually get to debate. They lose. It's different than MSNBC when you have 5 pundits all liberal speaking pro-Obama and anti-McCain.
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