Headline is right on..Sarah clearly defended Newt against the media.
“I call them dumbarses,” said Palin in the interview, referring to the media. “They, thinking that by trotting out this old Gingrich divorce interview that’s old news — and it does feature a disgruntled ex, claiming that it would destroy his campaign — all this does, Sean, is incentivize conservatives and independents who are so sick of the politics of personal destruction, because it’s played so selectively by the media, that their target, in this case Newt, he’s now going to soar even more. Because we know the game now, and we just won’t put up with it. Good call, media.”
Not really. If Palin took sides between Newt and Marianne, then it would be correct.
But she didn’t. She slammed the media’s coverage of the story. A more accurate headline, as noted above, would have been “Palin defends Gingrich against media attacks”.