Palin is "gorgeous"

CNN last night included breaking news on the financial crisis fallout. It focused heavily on the candidates sharing opinions on how they do not want average people to pay for Wall Street's problems. One of their biggest concerns is CEO's pocketing the taxpayer's money instead of using it for the crisis. Obama and McCain even made a joint statement that "Now is the time to come together." 

After focusing on this for quite a while, they moved onto Palin and talked about how Pakistan's new president called Palin "gorgeous." Then, of course, it was time for the polls and information about the "key states": Montana, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and West Virginia. Obama's numbers are going up, partially because the economy was bad news for the Republicans, Obama has been spending more money on ads, and the boost Palin gave McCain is going back down. 

I think the coverage was over-emphasizing the joint efforts of Obama and McCain. This was just an excuse for them to "come together," even though we all know that this will hardly last and in a day or two they'll be back at each other's throats again. 

I also think it is inappropriate to talk about how Pakistan's president called Palin "gorgeous." It was a sexist comment that he should not have said, you would NEVER hear a female leader calling Obama or Biden handsome. And CNN's coverage of it did not mention once how inappropriate this was or anything. If CNN would have turned this into a package about sexism in the election or something like that, it would have been better. But it did not. Instead, it just mentioned what Pakistan's president said and talked about the talks and did not talk at all about how this may have made Palin uncomfortable or anything like that. They could have suggested how what he said was inappropriate, but instead that just wanted to reinforce that Palin is only a pretty face and avoid talking about anything that goes in depth to her policy decisions and ability to lead.