According to Sarah Palin, one of the reasons she chose to resign, a year shy of the end of her term, is “the media” and all the attention “it’s” been paying to her family and personal life. To this I say, of course many involved in various forms of media pay attention to you, last year, no one outside of Alaska knew who you were, then you showed up and said this:
So her resignation, despite its proxmity to ethics violations investigations, is yet another thing to which Palin has been able to apply this content absent defense. Presumably, Palin wishes to escape the media. Here’s where we get to a virtual ouroboros. Palin’s logic cannot survive when you follow it. She wants to escape the media, but reinvent herself at the same time. Reinvention requires acknowledgement. For a book to matter, someone has to read it. Let’s see if Harper Collins lets her sit back and not make the morning talk show circut to promote her book the week before it hits the shelves.
The Daily Show’s Jason Jones explored this very conundrum last night. He was in Alaska for Palin’s speech. He talked to her supporters (who really had no clue who he was! He has to tell them he’s with TDS, so they must not know what that is either!). And he adroitly pointed out that yelling and complaining about “the media” into a microphone with a camera in your face makes absolutely no sense.
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