Posted by
Mike Silverman on Sunday, September 07, 2008 6:22:44 AM
I hope a lot of people got the chance to see the excellent mini biography called "Sarah Palin, An American Woman" which aired on the Fox News cable station Saturday night. Fox News has its share of liberal takes, but it also has a reputation of looking clearly at all sides of a political matter. So I want to take a moment to thank the Fox News producers and Greta Van Susteren for presenting a fair look at Sarah's personal life and professional record. Greta is often pegged as a liberal, and yet liberals tend to hate her because she's not an extremist, has been critical of Barack Obama and hails from a small midwestern town and recently stated her view of midwestern values as a cut above the rest. Not the sort of things that would ingratiate her to the typical DC punditry. She has also been very fair on the record regarding Sarah Palin, chosing not to join the feeding frenzy of the left. Fox News has higher prime time-slot ratings than CNN, MSNBC, CBS news and NBC news, so it has to be a thorn in the side of the left wing hate-mongering attack dogs running the liberal meat grinder when Fox News puts such an unbiased report on the air about a Republican candidate. A lot of this mini-bio was in Sarah Palin's own words, from past interviews and recent exclusive interviews with Fox News. How refreshing, letting viewers decide by letting Sarah talk about her family and career in her own words, and actually presenting her real associates, co-workers and friends talking about Sarah in thier own words. Even without shying away from mentioning potential local scandals such as the so called "troopergate" , this ended up a touchingly warm look at the Palin family and a fair review of Sarah's record. Sarah came out in a very impressive manner in this bio. I think anyone watching this would have to admit that Sarah is an impressive lady, hard working, loving to her family, politically successful, and geninuely honest about her feelings and her goals.
- Mike Silverman