Ms. Quinn was one of the first responders. Her job, along with a few other media elite, was to ignite the fires of bias and wait for the tag along media to pick up the cause - piling on until the blaze became a firestorm, driving Palin off the ticket.
Unfortunately for Quinn, things did not go according to plan. Palins speech, along with Fred's and Rudy's was a thunderstorm drowning out the message and the messenger. The flood of backlash left Quinn and others like her drowning in a sea of criticism about media bias.
This "apology" is nothing more than Quinn crawling into the lifeboat. Quinn, finally, got the new talking points memo. She will be quiet for a couple weeks until she reaches dry ground. Then, more cautiously, she will try to destroy Palin - first will faint praise and then with "serious questions."
And that is where the alternate media will jump in. Congressman Billybob made an excellent point in a column the other day. When people like Quinn start posing "serious questions" to Palin, two questions need to be asked. Would they ask the same thing to a man? Would they ask the same thing to a Democrat?