femminista: thoughts of a feminist rhetorician

Sarah Palin is obviously incapable of keeping her email secure, a fact evidenced by the recent hacking of her oh-so-cleverly-named email accounts, gov.sarah@yahoo.com and gov.palin@yahoo.com. Is this really who we want influencing US security policy? Unfortunately, the hackers involved are also claiming the name Anonymous, the loosely affiliated internet mischief-makers (as they would probably refer to themselves) that I've written about previously. For more detailed coverage of this, their latest exploit, see the ZDNet article.

So, I would like to make a small addition to my previous post.  No, I am not going to take back what I said about pundits.

Will the news stations start reporting the news instead of promoting debates as though they were promoting a wrestling match? I turn on MSNBC tonight and I'm appalled within the first minutes of listening. Am I appalled by deaths in Iraq, embassies being bombed, people starving? No. Because none of those things were mentioned. Instead, I hear about the "face-off" between Barack and Hillary. I read "which Clinton will show up." I hear about how the election has already been decided. Oh, yeah, and I've been exhorted to watch the "post-game" show. Wait a second. In what way does choosing the future leader of this country seem analogous to a football game? To whom is this a game?