A CNN anchor attacks McCain's "sexist" treatment of his running mate ('Free Sarah Palin'!)

[Mark E. Smith]

From "Oliver Burkeman's Campain Diary Blog" via guardian.co.uk

With Youtube video included.

Here's another outlet that is presumably "not, by any standard, a journalistic organization" : CNN, where anchor
Campbell Brown yesterday unleashed this attack on the media-hating McCain campaign, accusing them of
chauvinistically "treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower" in shielding her from the press. The McCain
campaign's efforts to keep reporters away from Palin at the United Nations yesterday meant that all anybody
heard of her meeting with Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, was precisely this:

"What is his name?" Palin asked (of Karzai's son).
"Mirwais," Mr. Karzai replied. "Mirwis, which means '"The light of the House.'"
"Oh nice," Palin responded.

Nice - but not as nice as it would have been if Karzai had run the name "Mirwais" through the Sarah Palin Baby
Name Generator, in which case he'd have called his son Strike Chipper Palin.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/oliverburkemanblog/2008/sep/24/uselections2008.sarahpalin

[dipsydoodle]

1. 'Free Sarah Palin' with what ?

10 gallons of fuel :shrug: