Sarah Palin's been getting a lot of flack from both sides since she was nominated for VP late last month. But perhaps no criticism has been as harshly personal as freelance blogger Heather Mallick's piece on Palin, A Mighty Wind Blows Through the Republican Convention, which appeared on the Canadian Broadcast Corporation's website. The article, has been taken down and apologized for by the corporation, managed to stir up national debate with Mallick's portrayal of Palin as appealing to "the white trash vote" with her "toned-down version of the porn actress look."
Though the CBC took down the article, you can still find it on several mirror sites, including this one. The highlights, besides the one mentioned above, is when Mallick goes all Where the Wild Things Are with female genitalia:
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Once upon a time, free cigarettes were handed out at Congressional Black Caucus events and Rep. Edolphus Towns was referred to as “Marlboro Man” as a nod to his campaign contributions from Big Tobacco. None of this goes on anymore, but the CBC still has a complicated relationship with the tobacco industry, which makes the recent flavored-cigarette ban a sticky problem. Many think that the bill, which bans all flavored cigarettes except for menthols, which are disproportionately smoked by blacks, has racial implications. It’s causing a rift in a CBC already divided over the Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton drama.
