Palin must have media pals

I was going to ask, in as respectful a way as I know how, why this person of little accomplishment other than fame-seeking rated Friday’s (Dec. 11) full-color front-page prominence. But before I got to that, I heard of both Sarah Palin’s accusation that Al Gore lies to the public about climate change to make money, and her acceptance of a large fee to speak at a fundraiser for a Canadian hospital that not only services “socialized medicine,” but performs abortions.

Glaciers recede and polar ice melts whether Gore makes money or not, but he’s criticized when investing in what he believes in becomes profitable – proving green energy is not the dollar-sucking job-killer climate change deniers claim – by someone collecting a paycheck from two things she professes to oppose and abhor.

One attendee at Palin’s book-signing sees someone “genuine, 100 percent, real-to-the-core.” I see an anything-for-attention-or-a-buck opportunist who drips with artifice and insincerity.

There isn’t space to list her other pretenses and hypocrisies, but the press she gets in spite of them can only lead me to conclude the media are “in the tank” for Palin.

Steven A. Wells

Spokane