Posted on 09/03/2008 10:15:22 PM PDT by airedale
On behalf of the media, I would like to say we are sorry.
On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very sorry.
We have asked questions this week that we should never have asked.
We have asked pathetic questions like: Who is Sarah Palin? What is her record? Where does she stand on the issues? And is she is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?
We have asked mean questions like: How well did John McCain know her before he selected her? How well did his campaign vet her? And was she his first choice?
Bad questions. Bad media. Bad.
It is not our job to ask questions. Or it shouldn’t be. To hear from the pols at the Republican National Convention this week, our job is to endorse and support the decisions of the pols.
Sarah Palin hit the nail on the head Wednesday night (and several in the audience wish she had hit some reporters on the head instead) when she said: “I’m not a member of the permanent political establishment. And I’ve learned quickly, these past few days, that if you’re not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.”
But where did we go wrong with Sarah Palin? Let me count the ways:
First, we should have stuck to the warm, human interest stuff like how she likes mooseburgers and hit an important free throw at her high school basketball tournament even though she had a stress fracture.
Second, we should have stuck to the press release stuff like how she opposed the Bridge to Nowhere (after she supported it).
Third, we should never have strayed into the other stuff. Like when The Washington Post recently wrote: “Palin is under investigation by a bipartisan state legislative body. … Palin had promised to cooperate with the legislative inquiry, but this week she hired a lawyer to fight to move the case to the jurisdiction of the state personnel board, which Palin appoints.”
Why go there? What trees does that plant?
Fourth, we should stop making with all the questions already. She gave a really good speech. And why go beyond that? As we all know, speeches cannot be written by others and rehearsed for days. They are true windows to the soul.
Unless they are delivered by Barack Obama, that is. In which case, as Palin said Wednesday, speeches are just a “cloud of rhetoric.”
Fifth, we should stop reporting on the families of the candidates. Unless the candidates want us to.
Sarah Palin wanted the media to report on her teenage son, Track, who enlisted in the Army on Sept. 11, 2007, and soon will deploy to Iraq.
Sarah Palin did not want the media to report on her teenage daughter, Bristol, who is pregnant and unmarried.
Sarah Palin thinks that one is good for her campaign and one is not, and that the media should report only on what is good for her campaign. That is our job, and that is our duty. If that is not actually in the Constitution, it should be. (And someday may be.)
The official theme of the convention’s third day was “prosperity,” but the unofficial theme was “the media are really, really awful.”
Even Mike Huckabee, who campaigned for president this year by saying “I am a conservative, but I am not mad at anybody,” discovered Wednesday night that he is mad at somebody.
“I’d like to thank the elite media for doing something,” Huckabee said, “that, quite frankly, I didn’t think could be done: unify the Republican party and all of America in support of John McCain and Sarah Palin.”
And could that be the real point of the attacks on the media? To unify the Republican Party?
No, that is simply the cynical, media view.
Though as Lily Tomlin says, “No matter how cynical I get, it’s just never enough to keep up.”
I couldn’t resist that. For which I am sorry.
How about you don’t take John McCain for granted you Democrat in “journalist” clothing?
Well, as long as Barack Obama left our #1 motivation off his ticket, the media makes a good stand-in.
Remember, this is the same place which quoted only 4 democrats to say that she is the most inexperienced person ever put on a ticket...
This is sweet. I just loved seeing the talking head reaction to the speec. You could see it in their eyes. They were just stunned. They were whooped good!
This guy’s picture is in the dictionary next to “truculent.”
The media idiots continue in their downward spiral. They just don’t get it.
I don’t have a problem if the media wants to investigate and cover any of these potential Palin issues.
What I have a problem is , why don’t they do the same with Obama.
Here’s is a small list of starter issues about Obama, they can look into. And all of these have much more evidence than the Sarah stuff. All we ask for is fairness. Media are you listening?
1. Investigate his associations with Bill Ayers.
2. Why his wife got a $200k raise at her hospital, which immediately got a $1 million earmark from Obama.
3. His lying about the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
4. Tony Rezko, and how he helped Obama buy his $2 million dollar mansion.
5. Look into issues surrounding Joe Biden’s son.
6. Did Obama ever hold and Indonesian Citizenship (AP has photos of his school enrollment documents). Much more evidence than you have on some of these unfounded Palin smears.
7. What about his time and grades at Columbia?
Anyway, media this is a good place to start.
Fairness Please !!!
This airhead will never “get it”. In his world he is there to tell us what to think. If we demonstrate any level of independent thinking we become his enemy.
I still think Biden should dump Zerobama from their ticket.
Republican party, united? Did I miss something?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Biden and Obama have been field dressed before our very eyes!
great one!
Harry Wurzbach ? Fan or relative of the famous 1920s TX Republican Congressman ?
Sorry, forgot to turn my sarcasm off.
Big Punditry got filleted.
hahahahahaha!
Gee! Is this the Roger L. Simon I had such great respect for?
You’re off MY blogroll if you are....
Chris Matthews was literally waving that US magazine around in the air during his show yeaterday( Babies, Lies, Scandal). Just asking questions, you know.
I usually like Roger Simon, but this whining is stupid. Get a spine.
Why in the world would the apologize for anything...they are SHAMELESS, DISGUSTING, and UNCONSCIONABLE.
Then top it off with some self-serving whining after Palin hands you your still pumping heart.
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