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Letter: With ‘brilliant’ Palin selection, McCain electrifies Republicans

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Published Monday, September 15, 2008
In response to Michael Zink’s “In Palin, proof McCain’s gone soft” (9/11), I must object to both his method and his madness.
#1 By SY11 (Unregistered User) 1:51pm on September 15, 2008

Umm, Zink's article is very clearly a satire in reaction to all of the Democratic commentators that have filled the YDN and MSM recently on the Palin, and I cannot believe that the YDN printed this article. Maybe they wanted to have a good laugh at your expense.

#2 By JE 10 (Unregistered User) 8:43pm on September 15, 2008

You do not recognize satire.

Clearly you are either an EPE or a WGSS major.

#3 By TD 09 (Unregistered User) 1:26am on September 16, 2008

Listen children, there is a difference between hyperbole and satire. Did the original article intentionally overstate its arguments? You bet, but that doesn't mean that his point wasn't the same old liberal bunk about Republicans, McCain, and the new electoral map that you all are now shaking in your boots about. God, you liberals always pull that nonsense - you can't trump up your arguments and put them out there only to pull them back as soon as someone summarily takes them apart. Nice try though!

#4 By SY11 (Unregistered User) 2:47am on September 16, 2008

TD 09, no one summarily took apart Zink's argument. His argument is that McCain is too stupid to demean women. This is obviously a satire.

Also, why are you summarily describing everyone as liberal. I didn't realize that the criterion deciding liberalism was literacy.

An article that contains the following lines:

"Republicans contend that women should stay home and make babies and sandwiches"

"Democratic commentators from across the political spectrum"

"And a man who can’t even fire off a good salvo against feminism anymore doesn’t deserve to be our commander in chief"

is clearly denigrating the arguments that the left is throwing against Palin's appointment. McCain and the republican do not come off so easy though, not just because reality has a liberal bias, but because McCain and the republicans can be just as ridiculous and hypocritical as the democrats.

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