Friday, December 10, 2010       1. Equal fault to go around.
Although, being a Palin supporter, I think the "polarization"
comes from her conservative principles that she fearlessly and
bravely stands on. Even at a social gathering, if I were brave
enough to take a stand on the conservative principles I hold, I
would be polarizing.    2. I would tend to say media's fault. If
they caught her in a gaffe here or there, a pattern it does not
make. It reminds me of how the sports media used to showcase
Bobby Knight, the coach of Indiana (and later Texas Tech), only
when he got mad. So what the public saw was the illusion of a
pattern that the man was angry and crazy all the time.
Similarly, priests of the Catholic Church have as a group been
characterized as pedophile suspects to the point that it's
common for non-Catholics to say some paraphrase like, "It
disturbs me how Catholic priests molest children" in an
unqualified way. For Palin, polarizing may be the only quality
the media characterizes correctly, b