Moonlight and Valentino
Why are the media so clothes-minded when it comes to Palin?
It's a story that gives the tired old dichotomies of Palin’s controversial candidacy (conservative politics versus liberal; street smarts versus book smarts; folksiness versus erudition; elitism versus Joe-six-packism; blah versus blah) a Pygmalionesque implication: that by bringing the outsider onto the GOP ticket and into the party’s echelons, McCain and his team have invited the common to infiltrate the exclusive, thereby daring—expecting?—the ... Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
The public's reaction to little unimportant acts of hypocrisy is not uniform -- instead each person's reaction is informed by the impression that person already has. For example, my reaction to Palin's $150K wardrobe might be, "see, I knew she was a phony" (although in reality I think it's more complicated than that). My reaction to Edward's haircut, though, was, "gee, I thought that he was smarter than that."