The real clowns

Stanley Fish has a great article on the troubles of Mark Sanford and the resignation of Sarah Palin and the way Journalists are covering them. It is a must-read because it shows that it is impossible to cover the circus without becoming a part of it. As I said last fall, I like Sarah Palin just as I like Obama and Sarkozy for that matter (I was never able to hate Bush because I believe that he wasn't the issue, that his politics were), after all, how can you not like people who work so hard at being liked and who believe that they have a destiny. However, the fact that I like Palin isn't enough for me to ever vote for her, for them because politics isn't about liking or hating the politicians, it isn't about the personal, it is about the beef not the  syrupy fluff, which is what the media seems to think that it is. It is sad that in era when seriousness is needed, the world is dominated by the politics of me where politicians believe that being liked, beloved, venerated is everything. To come back to Palin, it was sad for me to see how easy it became/is for people, women especially to hate her/ despise her as if she didn't have the right to exist, as if she is an abomination, as if the only possible way to fight her ideology is to smack her down as manly guys mount a bitch in heat to remind her that she was only created for one thing, to be taken and to be bred.