Posted on 09/02/2008 7:37:34 PM PDT by jazusamo
Since Governor Sarah Palin's daughter is not running for election this year, it is amazing how much the media has suddenly become obsessed with her. Her pregnancy not only made the front page of the New York Times, a printed announcement of her pregnancy stayed at the bottom of the television screen on CNN for what seemed to me to be about an hour or more.
Investigative reporters have obviously been burning a lot of midnight oil, digging deep into the history of Governor Palin's family, for they also found a drunk driving incident involving her husband decades ago— before they were married.
"The public's right to know" is often invoked by the mainstream media, when what they are really talking about is the media's right to smear those that they disagree with politically.
It is doubtful whether the public is half as obsessed with Sarah Palin's daughter as CNN obviously is. Even before this particular story was hyped, CNN was among those in the media who had become something of a laughingstock for how they had gone overboard in favor of Barack Obama.
Increasingly, over the years, CNN has become less of a news reporting organization and more of a propaganda machine for liberal-left politics. Unfortunately, CNN is not alone.
It was not the newsworthiness of young Bristol Palin's pregnancy that put it on the front page of the New York Times or interminably on the bottom of the screen at CNN. It was an opportunity for them to try to damage the political career of someone they disagreed with politically.
But how much damage is this story likely to do? Only time will tell but it seems doubtful whether a lot of votes will be changed by it. The public does not always echo the media's obsessions.
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It is a shame that Sowell isn’t runnning for U.S. President. I’d vote for him in heartbeat.
That’s exactly what they’re doing, bray. They’ll come to regret it.
Oh, the lucidity of the conservative mind!
Scary. Very scary.
Yeah, I know all about it and understood when Reagan ran the FIRST time. Good article none the less.
Congressman Billybob
Tenth in the ten-part series, "The Owner's Manual (Part 10) -- The Remaining Amendments"
Yes! I love it and just ripped it off. :)
Incessant repetition, and spending. The more we spend on it, the worse it gets. Therefore, we must spend more.
Actually, the DUI arrest makes me like them more. With the insanely over-the-top draconian enforcement against DUI (no, I’ve never been arrested, I’m just not an ignorant sheeple), it’s like a chance for a protest vote.
I’ve said it many times that Dr. Sowell would make a fine president. Obama is an empty shirt by comparison.
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I pray that the tremendous strain and stress or this near criminal intrusion into their personal lives will cause Bristol and her fiance to cleave to each other for support and strength.
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