Ex-Clinton Aide: Media Tougher On Palin [Mark Penn Argues The Press Has Lost Its Credibility...]

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[gridlock]

What Penn fails to realize is that the DNC Convention message for the past two rounds, or the past twelve as far as I know, have been laundry lists of giveaways. People love that at convention time, but on toward Election Day, they start looking at the check.

The Democrats are not centrists. They only pretend to be from time to time.

[hermgem]

When Biden told the world that Hillary is better then he is, this just plainly came out of the depth of his heart, as Biden plainly told the truth.
Obama calculated while taking on this cynic Biden as an opponent smasher of male Vice Presidents, but now finds himself stuck with a lame horse.
Miscalculations, wrong decisions are the cause of losses and defeats in any enterprise, including elections.

[goldfinch]

And I think that that's a real problem growing out of this election. The media now, all of the media — not just Fox News, that was perceived as highly partisan — but all of the media is now being viewed as partisan in one way or another. And that is an unfortunate development.

Unfortunate? Only for the Democrats. Anything that shows the casual news viewer that the MSM is in the bag for the Democrats is good for Republicans.

[patriotspride]

‘The Arctic Fox “

I like that name...........

[dan1123]

LOL!

CBSNews.com: Your former colleague Howard Wolfson argued that you all unintentionally paved the way for Palin by exposing some of the unfair media coverage that Hillary Clinton received. And, therefore, a lot of the media may now be treating Sarah Palin with kid gloves.[What?!] Do you agree with that?

Mark Penn: Well, no, I think the people themselves saw unfair media coverage of Senator Clinton. I think if you go back, the polls reflected very clearly what "Saturday Night Live" crystallized in one of their mock debates about what was happening with the press.

I think here the media is on very dangerous ground. I think that when you see them going through every single expense report that Governor Palin ever filed, if they don't do that for all four of the candidates, they're on very dangerous ground. I think the media so far has been the biggest loser in this race. And they continue to have growing credibility problems.

And I think that that's a real problem growing out of this election. The media now, all of the media — not just Fox News, that was perceived as highly partisan — but all of the media is now being viewed as partisan in one way or another. And that is an unfortunate development.

CBSNews.com: [Incredulous] So you think the media is being uniquely tough on Palin now?

Mark Penn: Well, I think that the media is doing the kinds of stories on Palin that they're not doing on the other candidates. And that's going to subject them to people concluding that they're giving her a tougher time. Now, the media defense would be, "Yeah, we looked at these other candidates who have been in public life at an earlier time."

What happened here very clearly is that the controversy over Palin led to 37 million Americans tuning into a vice-presidential speech, something that is unprecedented, because they wanted to see for themselves. This is an election in which the voters are going to decide for themselves. The media has lost credibility with them.