Mark Byron rightfully called me out in the BDBO comment section under this post. He’s correct. This is what friends are for. I was being irritable and dismissive and not addressing the substance of the article. Shoot, I didn’t even critique her resume or humanize the author, I just reacted to who and what she works for. Dr. Byron:

I didn’t recall that James Dobson got himself cloned, got the clone’s sex changed and sent his Mini-Mi back to mid-sixties Idaho to appear as Sarah Heath. Nice trick.

I might suggest critiquing the article rather than the author’s resume.

After reading the article through twice I didn’t see much substance, I saw Andrea Mrozek channelling Phyllis Schlafly. I saw a Focus on the Family Canada piece which left me wondering if orders came from Colorado to defend their pick of Sarah Palin. I’ve read it twice more.

I read the usual pulling out of the usual boogeymen (or women), the usual phrases and buzz words and the pounding of the Focus brand - family values.
And frankly I still don’t know who Ms. Mrozek is referring to.
Do you?
And who is she addressing?

I am sincerely asking - who is she speaking to?

All Ms. Morzek has to do to earn her paycheck is tie in Canadian politics, and she did.

It’s not a pretty sight. But at least it beats what we’re getting here in Canada, where the communications machine goes into shutdown mode at the slightest sign of controversy. Indeed, the clearest sign an election is truly in the offing came when Justice Minister Rob Nicholson ditched Bill C-484, the Unborn Victims of Crime Act, which would have made a violent attack against a pregnant woman a worse offence by recognizing the death of both the mother and her unborn child. Many Canadian politicians — and especially Conservative ones — are scared stiff of being thought of as remotely “pro-life,” so we get no debate at all. The fact that polls showed 77% of Canadians supported Bill C-484 counted for nothing.

I haven’t a clue what polls she is referring to either, any more than I know who her new/old feminist boogey people are.
I don’t know what she means by the communication machine shutting down, Ken Epp got his fair share of traditional media coverage, discussion of the bill certainly made the rounds. 
(Adding the death of the mother is a nice touch Ms. Mrozek)
This is what Ken Epp said in the comment section at BDBO:

As the sponsor of Bill C-484 in the House of Commons, let me try to answer this question. My motivation for introducing the “Unborn Victims of Crime Act” was and is to protect the children that are brutally taken away from pregnant women by violence. These are willing mothers carrying wanted babies, and some third party comes along and violently takes away both the woman’s choice and the baby that she is eagerly anticipating.

Shooting vague messengers in the dark keeps discussion of issues at bay and Ms. Mrozak did an excellent job in The new face of feminism.

 C-484 has little to do the noise a US political choice has generated other than it was a Canadian content aside to the willful inching toward legalizing views Ms. Palin and Ms. Mrozek sincerely hold. Beliefs consistent with lobbying efforts of Focus on the Family Canada.

Example: An 11 year old  is impregnated by her father. She carries to term and delivers short of her own death or there are legal consequences to her and her family. 

A Focus on the Family Canada made sure we heard what mattered to them in The National Post.
And I stupidly bit.

There were 15 thousand media at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions left scrambling to find out about the governor of Alaska.
There were thousands of blogs and forums hungry for genuine information, millions of US voters reading for scraps.
Sarah Palin was sold at her political convention on image, not substance.
No one had an opportunity to go there yet.
They’ve been going there since.

Mark Byron was correct in pointing out I had a knee jerk response - so I wrote an essay around Ms.Mrozek points with what is known of Palin’s political record and some of the media coverage and react. I edited it. I thought about sending to a few friends to ask them to tighten it up and I put it in my documents. 

I’m not posting, it’s so not worth it.

Ms. Mrozak got a response from a veteran working journalist, and she is delighted. 
She had five blog responses I can see, and four of them were positive.

A US political nomination created buzz, complete with sexism, misogyny, double standard thinking from various sides: there has been a tsunami of noise around Ms. Palin’s step onto her national stage.
So much noise her record and goals as a politician will be submerged.

That submerging was a key purpose in the McCain election campaign Palin pick.
Worked great. Articles such as The new face of feminism are an excellent example.


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