NASCAR

Clarence Page comments on the government's decision to send Michelle Obama and Jill Biden-the vice president's wife, to a NASCAR race to endorse Joining Forces, an initiative to support military families.The women were terribly booed by the crowd, yet many, including Page, don't criticize the public's political correctness. Rather, Page criticizes such "unnecessary" travels across the countries. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-oped-1127-page-20111127,0,4080411.column Page is clearly bias in this article as he consistently bashes the government's use of the hard-earned money of the people. As he describes the details of the event, he constantly reminds the reader of how wasteful the government is being. However, Page supports his position on this matter with a possible reason for why the crowd booed the first lady: "expressing their resentment at 'paying millions of dollars" for the first family's vacations.'" Page personally adds afterwards: "Somehow I don't think the White House travel budget was on their minds." This additional explanation for the boos gives Page credibility. However, his strong bias comments which are irrelevant to the topic (for example " Last February he went personal in attacking her campaign against childhood obesity with, 'it doesn't look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary, dietary advice.' Ha! Look who's talking.") loses his credibility as it seems as if he is bashing more than reporting.