tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322504291119240344.post5414385827297895807..comments2023-05-31T06:19:59.897-05:00Comments on Headless Horseman: Pssst...! The Palin-Bashing Isn't Working!Headless Horsemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15633552008064771315noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322504291119240344.post-57396265735920922792008-09-13T04:58:00.000-05:002008-09-13T04:58:00.000-05:00Isn’t it just the most peculiar thing? For exampl...Isn’t it just the most peculiar thing? For example the local rag up here, the Willimantic Chronicle, printed that vulgar cartoon with caricatures of the Governor her very pregnant daughter Bristol. I’m sure you saw it too in your local rag. Bristol is shown haggard off to one corner mumbling “it’s a private affair” while her mother is in the forefront preaching abstinence.<BR/><BR/>Well that was too much for Richard Jenkins of Colombia. He wrote a very smart letter that took the editor to task taking cheap shot at an underage girl. That must have struck a nerve because the editor put a very lengthy, very churlish “editor’s note” rebutting Jenkins. The editor claimed Bristol was fair game because “Governor Palin advocates “abstinence only police (policy?) of sex education as does the Bush Administration which directs federal funds accordingly”. [They always bring up the Bush Administration every time they can as if that supposed to be some kind of albatross, have you noticed?]<BR/><BR/>The editor goes on further “Abstinence-only has never worked as a policy and is a failed approach to preventing teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Palin put herself and that abstinence policy on the national stage and that is why the cartoon was published”.<BR/><BR/>So not only is all teen pregnancy all Bush-Palin’s fault, so are sexually transmitted diseases! <BR/><BR/>Two letters so far (one of mine) in turn rebutted the editor’s rebuttal. It was pointed out by both of us and the original letter that here in Windham we got an epidemic of teen pregnancy. I said we compare rather unfavorably to Alaska. The other letter pointed out that Bristol’s school doesn’t even have an abstinence-only policy.<BR/><BR/>No editor’s note appeared after our names even though I dared him to write one.mccommashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06527649788851312579noreply@blogger.com