07.01.2009 5:25 pm
Breaking political news
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Photo by Brian Adams for Runner's World
In case your subscription to Runner’s World has lapsed, here’s a link to a long interview with Sarah Palin, who describes the joy of sweat. Don’t miss the part when she encounters a mother bear.
The use of the flagged-draped chair and the inward-hung Blue Star flag (for her son in the Army) as photo props is causing some conniptions on the Web. But the photographs are worth it.
Kevin Horrigan is deputy editor of the editorial page. He writes editorials on local, state and national politics and public policy and also contributes a signed column to the Sunday Commentary Page. "The Old Sport" is a former sports columnist for the Post-Dispatch and for 10 years hosted radio talk shows on KMOX and KTRS in St. Louis. He lives in South St. Louis with his wife, Kate, and a dream of one day starting a professional catfish noodling tour. 
Now I get this piece: she’s running away from the national spotlight.
Our country flag should never be displayed this way! This is shocking disregard for the symbol of our freedom and the people who have given their lives for the rest of us!
I think that they were trying to be funny, as if anything about Palin at this point would be considered breaking news. I also don’t think that there is anything wrong in the way the flag is displayed, she is trying to declare her patriotic feeling, still thinking of another office, I think. Even if she announced her desire to be President today, I would not consider that breaking news, more like ” Well Duh, why do you think she resigned as Governor.”.