According to Streetsblog, there’s an interesting meme about Sarah Palin and Barack Obama’s two-wheeled preference going around the right-leaning blogosphere. Here’s more from editor Aaron Naparstek:
“These two images (below) have been floating around the right wing blogosphere under the shrieky, all-caps headline, “THIS IS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW.”
One of the websites is To The Point News (“The oasis for rational conservatives”). Here’s how they presented the story last week:
“Harley Girl”
“Schwinn Guy”
Underscoring the perception of toughness and wimpiness that these two photos are meant to reinforce, a commenter on To The Point News, proposes we decide our next President by an arm wrestling match between Palin and Obama. “Winner takes all,” he/she writes, “And to make it somewhat fair, Barack can use both arms.”
UPDATE, 2:28pm: Upon further consideration, I moved this post from the Front Page to Page Two — Editor.