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"...I believe that Sarah Palin's problem is not that she is "miserably uninformed" but that she is perceived to be uninformed. The media has virtually destroyed her on this issue..."

I was at a friend's house recently, and we watched a documentary Media Malpractice: How Obama got Elected and Palin was Targeted by John Ziegler.

It was so well done that I went home and ordered it online immediately. It was as powerful as the documentary on the media coverage of the Tet Offensive Television's Vietnam: The Impact of Media which was narrated by Charlton Heston.

It also contains two powerful add-ons, a 45 minute interview with Sarah Palin in which she came across as she really is, not chopped up and reassembled by the likes of Katie Couric's editing team. Very complimentary.

The other add-on is a series of interviews with Obama voters. If you have ever got that sinking feeling watching Jay Leno interview people on the street in his "Jaywalking" segment and thought "Oh my God. We are so screwed as a country to have idiots like this walking the street and voting!", you can multiply that sentiment by whole numbers greater than one. I think what is most distressing about it is coming face to face with the power of an ideological media willing to use that power, and the outward sentiments of people who don't even realize they have been manipulated which resulted in an American hating Marxist and Socialist being elected to the Office of the Presidency.

I cannot recommend any video I have seen lately more highly than this one. The name was Media Malpractice: How Obama got Elected and Palin was Targeted (by John Ziegler)

I have seen the Sigler documentary and I can confirm that it is devastating to the reputation of the mainstream media. After seeing this film I feel confirmed in my judgment , Shelby Steele is correct, the American people acted out of guilt over slavery and segregation and voted to put an African-American in the White House. In doing this, the electorate simply suspended its powers of critical analysis and deliberately ignored all the signs that Barack Obama is a militant radical with a decidedly un-American perspective.

He is the flesh and blood antonym to Sarah Palin whom the media consciously set out to destroy. The media did to her what I was urging conservatives to do to Barack Obama when I said that we would lose the election if he were not "morally" destroyed.

I called it the Obama Pathology before the election, and made it the subject of a vanity which concluded that Obama could not fail to be elected so long as he played out his role which was to be a non-threatening black man acceptable to Whites and utterly removed from the mold of Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. The media were simply complicit in this flim flam. Hence the need to morally destroy Barack Obama. It now appears that the man himself is doing the deed for us.

I believe that the electorate is now coming to the point where it senses that it is the victim of a gigantic bait and switch, the greatest bait and switch in American history. I believe their indignation is generated as much by their recognition that they have been had, that their good nature has been presumed upon, as by their fear over their jobs, mortgages, and their children's futures.