It is with quite a bit of horror and dread I think back on the Vice Presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden.
The shrill voice of Sarah Palin still makes me physically ill, not because of its timbre but because of the words it speaks. She was clearly not engaged on the very important political issues, and did obviously not understand them at all. She was running in a beauty pageant to become the next VP of the US. I have no problem either accepting or understanding this, only a problem with all the people who pretended to take her seriously.
Oddly enough it was not Sarah Palin who made the most outrageous statement the night of the VP debate, that came from Joe Biden. Not only was Biden’s statement outrageous, but it was also so incredibly contemptible that I couldn’t wait to see it make headlines all across the US the following morning.
But what did I find? Nothing. Not a word anywhere. Sure you could read page upon page about how Sarah Palin said she would not answer the questions like the Washington-insiders would like her to, or how she kept winking to the audience, but not the New York Times, HuffingtonPost or even my beloved DemocracyNow mentioned Biden’s disgraceful statement from the evening before, and neither did anyone else I could find.
What was this statement you might ask yourself? Well here it is at 4:28:
Biden criticises President Bush for allowing the Palestinians to hold elections after the death of Arafat. Now this sentence should make every awake journalist in the world stare at the TV in disbelief.
Biden tells us that both he and Obama opposed the elections in Palestine in 2006. Elections which international observers said were free and fair. Elections which were held in a part of the world starved on democracy. Elections held among a group of people, the Arabs, who are generally ruled by vicious dictators, and who desperately yearn for a way to take part in the governing of their own countries.
As outrageous as Biden’s statement was, it is nothing compared to the lack of reporting this issue got around the world after the debate. It really speaks volumes as to how widespread the indoctrination is in the media, and how deep the utter contempt for democracy runs.
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