[quote=kcal09]Did Miami Heat star Glen Rice and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have a fling back in the 1980s, when she was a budding sports reporter and he was a star at the University of Michigan?
The National Enquirer is reporting that Palin, a former high school basketball standout herself, hooked up with Rice in 1987 when he was in Anchorage, Alaska, for a basketball tournament.
At the time, Palin was unmarried, just out of college and working as a sports reporter at Anchorage TV station KTUU. Rice was a junior and a basketball star -– he went on to lead the University of Michigan to a 1989 NCAA championship.
Why does this even matter? Is this relevant at all? She was single at that time and nothing illegal happened?
I guess the liberals are trying to make her look like one of them?[/quote]
kcal, forgive my untimely response. Unfortunately, I have yet to discover a place in which Piggs posting takes precedence over work and school demands, so I missed the posting on its original date. That being said…..
Your sentiments, as expressed, are exactly right. So your purpose in originating a post on the subject is…..what??
I’m going to make a statement that is based on purely anecdotal evidence, primarily because I don’t have time to accrue the empirical variety. I’m going to posit that the majority of Piggs (if not Americans) are experiencing acute Palinfo fatigue (otherwise known as TMI palinae).
Based on this wild speculation, I’m going to wager that the latest Palinsignificance would have come and gone without a mention by any of the other Piggs. And perhaps they had demands on their time that rivaled mine, but I’m guessing that that the small number of responses to your post was due to lack of interest rather than lack of time.
[quote=kcal09]The National Enquirer is reporting that Palin, a former high school basketball standout herself, hooked up with Rice in 1987 when he was in Anchorage, Alaska, for a basketball tournament……Why does this even matter? Is this relevant at all? She was single at that time and nothing illegal happened? [/quote]
Is it relevant to what? Here’s a handy tip (and in light of the long election cycle ahead, write it down because you’ll have plenty of chances to refer back to it): In today’s media, the only question that publishers and editors ask regarding relevancy is this:
“Is this material relevant to our consumers?”
Translation: Will this material make our consumers read an article based on it? Will they email it to their friends and relatives? Will they refer to it in Facebook? Will they follow it on Twitter? Will they bookmark us? Will they use links on our story site to click thru to other sites carrying the story?
This is gossip, pure and simple. The National Enquirer is a gossip magazine. It does not, nor has it ever, claimed to publish up-to-the-minute national/international news, keen political analysis, or in-depth biograpical profiles. I’m curious to find out how you arrived at the conclusion that it is a “liberal” media outlet. Since the New York Times is unceasingly referred to as “liberal”, I’d be particularly interested in a side-by-side analysis of the two publications that explains their obviously liberal leanings.
As for “relevance”, and why this material was published? It’s because the media outlets** believe that it’s what consumers want. By the reaction on both sides, it would appear that their judgement was accurate in this case.
**BTW, keep in mind that the content of print, broadcast, and commercial online media is not made by the reporters/writers. It is made by publishers/owners and managing editors/news directors. Conservative media owners/publishers far outnumber those of liberal persuasion, and, over the past 25 years, have hired like-minded managing editors/news directors (or at least those who will follow the owner’s editorial policy). There isn’t a writer/reporter at any decent-sized media outlet who has the power to circumvent the upper management editorial policy and decisions on what is published/aired. While media editorial policy may have been more favorable to liberals prior to the mid-’80s, that is definitely not the case now.
[quote=kcal09]Did Miami Heat star Glen Rice and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have a fling back in the 1980s….Why does this even matter? [/quote]
I’m still waiting for YOUR answer on this question. After all, you originated the thread. Why the hell does it matter, and why was it necessary to bring it up on Piggs, when there were so many other outlets dealing with both the story, and the reporting of it?
The fact of the matter is that Ms. Palin has gotten a free ride from the press a lot more often than she’s received a pie in the face from them. If there is video evidence in existence in which she presents herself as an astute, educated, analytical, and well-read individual who is capable of discussing even moderately complex issues in a way that demonstrates these qualities, I haven’t seen it. She has not been blind-sided by trick questions in ANY interview I’ve seen; however, she HAS repeatedly been unable to answer questions that are far less difficult than those normally asked of candidates for national office because she not only lacks the knowledge, but refuses to accept the responsibility for educating herself.
On top of that, she refuses to make herself available for questioning by the press or the people whose votes she is seeking, communicating with them only by “twittering” Yet she is continually interjecting herself into the national discourse, into matters in which she has no business, and certainly no intellectual position.
Palin wants to exert her diva-like attitude on the press, she is gauche and clumsy in her attempts to garner their attention and column space/airtime, and she condemns others for actions she engages in with impunity, yet she and her faithful acolytes perpetuate the myth that she is unfairly treated by the media. Sorry, but that’s a dog that won’t hunt.
[quote=kcal09] Why does this even matter?……I guess the liberals are trying to make her look like one of them?[/quote]
Okay, so I just gotta ask: What exactly does this statement mean? What do liberals look like?
Should you actually come up with an answer for this one, could include something along the lines of supporting documentation or corroborative evidence with it? You know: something that distinguishes opinions from fact.
