Of the advice given in the article I gleaned one good bit - Bashir badly needed an editor to keep him from going public with this thing. That's what editors are for. I didn't find much fault with his apology, actually, assuming it really was his. But it was too late and in any case, see paragraph one.
It is a little disturbing that someone whose business is words has apparently never encountered the phrase "debt slavery", because that's exactly what Palin was talking about. Judging from the comments he isn't the only one. The fact is that a large number of liberals want so much to hate her, try so hard, that they have willingly forfeited their ability to communicate in the English language. For a journalist that's particularly damning.
Where does this hatred come from? All this intense hatred - I thought it was just fear combined with the rough-and-tumble of contemporary politics but I no longer find this a satisfactory explanation. There's something visceral, insensate, and not entirely sane about the hatred. Strange stuff.
The left’s intense hatred for Sarah Palin stems from their inability to deal with the fact that they secretly admire her beauty and tenacity and brains while they simultaneously hate her right-of-center politics and her nobility, morals and good character. Her giving birth to Trig and loving him unconditionally is an unforgivable sin to the left and they must vilify her like no other.
The left is evil.