Elisabeth Hasselbeck had some choice words for the media over their treatment of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin yesterday. During a speech in Tampa, Florida The View co-host and frequent Republican apologist had this to say:

The zinger that has been floating around the press for the past 24 hour news cycle is, of course, Hasselbeck calling the criticisms of the $150,000 shopping spree for Governor Palin’s campaign wardrobe “deliberately sexist”. This reminds me of Stephen Colbert’s observation that the GOP knows a lot about sexism because they’ve been feminists for nearly two whole months now.

But let’s be clear on the subject, so there’s no confusion, this is not the biggest issue in the election nor is it a particularly important one. However, when you run around the country, as Governor Palin has, billing yourself as an “ordinary American” representing “Joe Six Packs” and “Hockey Moms” everywhere. Indeed letting your incessant trumpeting of yourself as a working class hero (armed with upper class tax cuts) drown out virtually any policy discussion whatsoever - then it turns out that you spent as much on clothes in one month as most regular people earn in three years total, that’s what some people, when they’re trying to show restraint, call news. It’s what other people, who’ve had it with the tactics of the McCain-Palin campaign call hypocrisy…and rather telling hypocrisy at that.

You can takepart in donating clothes and other household items to those less fortunate by checking out the Goodwill.

LINKS:

St. Petersburg Times: Hasselbeck: Media “sexist” on Palin

Politico: Palin talks clothes at length

NY Times: $150,000 wardrobe for Palin may alter tailor made image