Sometimes a bimbo is a bimbo.
Palin HAS had HUGE opportunities to display her intellect and judgment. She has chosen instead to come across as an entertainer. It is hardly Newsweek's fault for presenting a bimbo as a bimbo.
Let me go a step further over the PC precipice. Treating people as stereotypes is hardly unique to the media painting women. The Clintons, for example, tried to play the racial image against Barack. Unlike Palin, Obama survived this by simply appearing as he is ... a very smart man.
Palin's complaint is not anything new nor is it party specific. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton both complained about not being taken seriously. Dan Quayle had the same complaint, as did George W. Bush. Most recently Susan Hutchinson tried gloriously to separate herself from the newsbimbo image.
As I said, sometimes a bimbo is .. a bimbo.
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