Carly Fiorina on Sexism
I agree with Patterico and HotAir that complaining about an SNL skit being sexist is about as helpful to the McCain campaign as everything else is to Michelle Obama’s kids. That said, she does have a legitimate point, namely that there is something sexist, or otherwise toward, about constantly comparing Sarah Palin to Hillary Clinton as though one were supposed to be an acceptable substitute for the other. The two are nothign alike. They’re not supposed to be anything alike. They represent opposite parties. Their backgrounds are nothing alike. The only thing they have in common, aside from a nationality and a chromosome, is that both have relatively little job experience for the positions they seek (though Palin has more). The only reason I can fathom why anyone would expect those two to be any more alike than Duncan Hunter and Dennis Kucinich is … er …. OK, as a McCain supporter I’d best not say it between now and election day, so I’ll just keep my yap shut for once.
In short, Fiorina’s point does need to be made. It should have been made about the serious news media, which is supposed to be fair, not about SNL, which isn’t. Their job is to be funny, and they usually fail as badly as the news media fails at their job of being fair. Not this time.
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