Palin being picked on by media

This morning I was happily sleeping when a friend nudged me awake oh so gently by calling my phone. After I peeled my fingers out of the ceiling at the LOUD ringing of the phone intruding on my barely three hours of sleep, I blearily answered the phone. As I am mumbling incoherently into it my dad asks who called, I say "My wake up call..." He immediately ID'd the right suspect with a "Oh, hi _____."

So... why was I woke up and the ungodly hour of 12:57 am? (gimme a break, I had only went to bed at somewhere around 10:30 to 11 and dad had already woke me once since that time.) It seems that the caller, who could not get to her own computer, wanted me to look at Governor Palin's Facebook page because there was apparently something posted to it about why she had decided to resign as Alaska's Governor. I finally had to Google "Sarah Palin Facebook" to find it, since it was not linked off the Alaska Governor's website like I thought it might be.

When I did find her Facebook site I was... confused. She seems to be leaving it to others to figure out what the reason for her stepping down is, and is dancing a two step around actually saying anything about it. After reading for hours on end I narrowed it down to that she was leaving because the press was, in her opinion, picking on her.

One point on her Facebook post that I was reading left me confused.

"...And though it's honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make..."

Excuse my language, but WTF?!?!?!

All I can think is that she is very "ME" focused. She is the Governor of the State of Alaska, not a bag boy at the local supermarket. There is a little more involved in "I quit" for that kind of role, and I think the media tends to look close at anyone, not just her, that is going to to skipping out on that role.

The media was not exactly ignoring South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford's false hike, and Palin herself noted that it was not something to whine about when talking about the media's focus on Hillary Clinton when she spoke with Karen Breslau at Newskweek's Women and Leadership Event in 2008. The YouTube video follows:



Transcript entered by me of the preceding video: (Note: I included all the um's and uh's just so no one can say I altered it in my transcription):

Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska
Newskweek's Women and Leadership Event
Hosted by Karen Breslau
March 2008, Los Angeles

Breslau: When you look at the coverage, when you listen to the conversations... what do you see?

Palin: Well, you know, I think fair or unfair the.. and I - I do think it is- is um-uh a more concentrated criticism that-that Hillary gets on- on so many fronts. I think that's unfortunate, but, fair or unfair, uh, I think she does herself a disservice eh-eh to even mention it really. I- I mean you got to plow through that. You have to know what you're getting into, umm, which, eh-eh-eh I say this with all due respect to Hillary Clinton and to her experience and to her passion for - for changing the status quo also, but- um, when I hear a statement like that coming from a woman candidate with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism or um, you know, maybe a sharper microscope put on her, I think damn that- that doesn't do us any good, uh women in politics, women in general wanting to progress this country. Uh, I don't - I don't think it's- it bodes well for her, a statement like that, because again, fair or unfair, it is there, I think that's reality and I think its a given, I think people can just accept that-that she is going to be under that sharper microscope, so be it. I mean, uhuhuh work harder, prove yourself to an even greater degree that you're capable, that you're gonna be uh the best candidate, and that of course is what she wants us to believe at this point so ... it-it bothers me a little bit hearing - hearing her bring that attention to herself on that level.

So... did I hear that right?

Palin says that if the press have placed her under a sharper microscope then Hillary Clinton needs to buck up and work harder to prove herself, but when the press makes Palin the focus of the sharper microscope her only alternative is to resign as Governor? What ever happened to "prove yourself to an even greater degree that you're capable"?

And, while I am questioning this... one more thing. Why is it costing the people of Alaska millions of dollars to fight Palin's battles against the press?

My one hope right now is that this promise breaker and "do as I say not as I do" whiner is at least being honest when she says that she is getting out of politics. She is *not* qualified, through her own actions, to try running for President in 2012.