Already embarrassed by being beaten so soundly by FOX News, CNN and its male anchor John Roberts and several male reporters shamed the network even further with their grossly sexist questioning of the pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as GOP VP nominee.
Palin, a mother of five, has a Downs Syndrome child. Her son was born in April. Roberts and his fellow chauvinists immediately questioned the properness and the time she would have to care for her child as VP.
What dunderheads! She has a husband, who also is a father. He can care for the child. And in Palin's case, it already turns out that he does and with the other children as well.
A Downs Syndrome child is not some alien from another planet. In the child's first year and more, he or she will mostly be like any other infant. My wife returned to college just six days after having her first child. Should she have stayed home with a non-Downs infant?
That's not to say there will be a lot of issues Palin and her husband will face soon. But there are many heroic families with Downs children who do incredible things. I know of them, and they are remarkable people.
Not so remarkable are the men of CNN, who immediately tried to question the ability of a female politico and mother to hold a higher office. Would the same question be asked of a male VP choice?
No. And that's what makes John Roberts and Friends' performance this morning that much more disgusting.
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