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Sarah Palin, like Hillary Clinton before her, has received a huge amount of media attention. Tina Fey?s impersonations of Palin, and the Alaska governor?s own recent appearance, on "Saturday Night Live" have boosted the show?s ratings. But could the news coverage of Palin and Clinton be considered fair? Commentator Lee Cullum considers that question.
Broadcast History
Aired October 23, 2008 during "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered" on KERA 90.1 FM.
Transcript
If ever there was a year of the woman in American politics, it is 2008. This was the year that Hillary Clinton arrived as a full-blown serious contender, front-running, inevitable even, until she bumped into an unexpectedly magical candidate she couldn?t overcome. This was the year, also, that Sarah Palin rode in from the West to astonish the nation and rev up the race, pushing her running mate, John McCain, into a dead heat with Barak Obama, at least for a while.
So they are the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, of an exhausting, exhilarating political season, actually several seasons, that saw a lawyer from Yale give way to a sportscaster from Idaho U, a senator to a governor, New York to Alaska, the culminating star of the women?s movement to the post-Steinem politics of aggressive motherhood.
Where many women of Clinton?s generation, though not Clinton herself, g...
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Sarah Palin, like Hillary Clinton before her, has received a huge amount of media attention. Tina Fey?s impersonations of Palin, and the Alaska governor?s own appearance last weekend, on Saturday Night Live have boosted the show?s ratings. But could the news coverage of Palin and Clinton be considered fair? Commentator Lee Cullum considers that question.
Tag: Lee Cullum is a writer and journalist based in Dallas, TX
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