Atheists on TV

It is very easy to see who is a liberal and who is a conservative, left wing or right wing on TV. Newscasters, commentators and interviewers clearly state their political preferences. When it comes to religion, however, that is less clear.

Journalists learn in school that they have to be impartial. They are news-casters, not news makers. But even though they are outspoken when it comes to politics, they are timid about expressing their lack of religious beliefs. Blatantly advertising your lack of religion hasn’t been popular in this country. 

But this is changing. Since discussing and questioning religion in this country has become more and more acceptable (think Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris who all helped disseminate this debate), journalists have been more openly taking sides. The most outspoken one is Bill Maher. Bill makes no qualms in declaring religion a fantasy. He even made a documentary about it.

Others are less obvious, but they skillfully manage to defend the separation of Church and State (so abused during the Bush administration) and to show that believing in God is optional, and it is ok to be an atheist. These TV personalities are Larry King,  Keith Olberman, Barbara Walters, Jon Stewart, Whoopi Goldberg, amongst others. I applaud them for slowly coming out of their closets

Women against Sarah Palin

Yes, there are many white, middle class and middle aged women who do not want Sarah Palin to be Vice President. Yes, we dreamt of having Hillary as our president, we started to accept her being only VP but now that that scenario is no longer possible in the next 4 years, it does not mean that we will support any woman just because she is a woman.

Joy Behar on The View yesterday (9-10-08) and again on Larry King the same day said exactly what me and tons of people want to say. Bravo Joy, you are a joy to watch  Watch it on the CNN website:

 http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/09/09/lkl.politics.long.cnn

Sarah Palin represents everything I am against. Her values backtrack several advancements we as a country have made. 

I am also a mother, and I am for strong family values, but I do not think we should base our policies on religion.  Sarah Palin blatantly disregards the separation of Church and State.  Listening to her talk about God is like watching a crazy woman in a mental health Institution who talks to fairies. This is not someone who can be in line for the primary office in this country!

It makes me sad that Republicans make their choices on how to pander to certain groups and how to nab an election instead of who is better prepared.