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By Brendon O'Connor, published 17/7/2009Sarah Palin, the plain speaking frontiersperson, still has strong appeal to Americans: we haven't seen the end of her yet.
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It was now OK to demean a woman publicly. Feminists abandoned the cause as they are prone to do with those not on the Left of politics, comedy show hosts called her slutty (Letterman nearly lost his job over this) and her daughters private life was hung out for the public to poke fun (imagine doing that with Obama's daughters,the horror!).
People recoiled at her hometown fresh faced look as if it was a horrible threat. It has been shown now that many of the claims against her were fabricated and false. We now know that the African story was made up by a blogger. Yet people still believe it. Obama didn't even know how long he'd been married but no-one seemed to care.
I would bet the average Australian knows as much as the average American regarding world and political events. Very little. Most Australians for example, can't remember the last Premier of their state. Palin was naive,green and unrehearsed but Couric went in for the kill simply to make her look bad. How you look depends on what side of the microphone you are on. Just ask Maxine McKew.