Posted on 09/02/2008 7:37:34 PM PDT by jazusamo
Since Governor Sarah Palin's daughter is not running for election this year, it is amazing how much the media has suddenly become obsessed with her. Her pregnancy not only made the front page of the New York Times, a printed announcement of her pregnancy stayed at the bottom of the television screen on CNN for what seemed to me to be about an hour or more.
Investigative reporters have obviously been burning a lot of midnight oil, digging deep into the history of Governor Palin's family, for they also found a drunk driving incident involving her husband decades ago— before they were married.
"The public's right to know" is often invoked by the mainstream media, when what they are really talking about is the media's right to smear those that they disagree with politically.
It is doubtful whether the public is half as obsessed with Sarah Palin's daughter as CNN obviously is. Even before this particular story was hyped, CNN was among those in the media who had become something of a laughingstock for how they had gone overboard in favor of Barack Obama.
Increasingly, over the years, CNN has become less of a news reporting organization and more of a propaganda machine for liberal-left politics. Unfortunately, CNN is not alone.
It was not the newsworthiness of young Bristol Palin's pregnancy that put it on the front page of the New York Times or interminably on the bottom of the screen at CNN. It was an opportunity for them to try to damage the political career of someone they disagreed with politically.
But how much damage is this story likely to do? Only time will tell but it seems doubtful whether a lot of votes will be changed by it. The public does not always echo the media's obsessions.
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Hoorah for Sowell! If only everyone in the media knew as much as he knows about economics, they’d spend less time talking about Bristol’s sex life.
Sex education, or sex instruction?
Bump
Sex education, or sex instruction?
It’s up to the NEA
It’s because wall-to-wall coverage of Bristol is sucking the oxygen out of McCain/Palin.
These are supposedly the people who believe that pregnant teenagers have an absolute right to privacy. They are also the ones who called Al Gore III’s 2000 DUI irrelevant WRT his dad’s campaign...and we agreed.
Yep, these are the people. The media and pundits are shameless with this and we will undoubtedly see a huge backlash.
People like Campbell Brown and Keith Olbermann think they’re geniuses because they can defame the character of a 17 year old girl.
This is all media brownshirting. They can’t keep it up forever, they don’t have that kind of attention span; Obama is going to do something to make them swoon and they’ll go back to that.
I believe we’re going to find out in the next few days just how strong Sarah Palin is and it’s going to surprise the RATS.
With the passing of Dr. Milton Friedman, I don't think there ia a person alive today who knows economics as well as Dr. Sowell.
That depth of knowledge just isn't necessary. All that is necessary is for them to read one of Dr. Sowell's books such as Basic Economics, a delightfully straight-forward book that even an English or Journalism major can understand.
Thomas Sowell Bump.
bookmark for tmw.
G’nite.
The libs just want to beat or wear you down into submission of their agenda. They want to control you and your vote.
I am voting for Sarah Palin because she is a leader.
PravdABDNC is lynching a scared 17 yr old girl. They must be so proud of themselves.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Yes, and he can articulate economic principles. Another "national treasure," as another poster observed, is Dr. Walter Williams, whose understanding of deep economic principles and extraordinary ability to articulate them in a direct and sometimes humorous way makes him very special.
Neither of these men get nearly enough recognition for their abilities and the wonderful role models they are for young men who would like to understand how to improve the lives of the less fortunate. They, like Adam Smith, understand that it is much more important to study "the causes of the Wealth of Nations" than it is to spin one's wheels, as John Edwards has done, studying the so-called "poverty" problem.
Bump to that! From what I've seen of her she can handle herself and is a straight shooter, no pun intended.
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