Posted on 09/07/2008 7:37:32 AM PDT by markomalley
Alas, we have just passed another marker on the way down. That's "we" as in "We, the people," and that's "down" as in "glug, glug." This marker will stand as a testament to the savage zeal with which our mainstream media gentlemen (hah) and gentlewomen (double hah) of the Fourth Estate, cosseted darlings of the Free World standing ever-vigilant to ensure that truth will out (hah hah hah), have sunk their teeth into the Palin family.
What started on or about Labor Day and has continued ever since, is what's known as a media "feeding frenzy," a condition of non-abating bloodlust for political prey (usually conservative political prey) that is strikingly similar to the agitated state of piranhas in a tank at feeding time. Top McCain strategist Steve Schmidt recently told Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz that this was the worst feeding frenzy he'd ever seen. I agree, and if I might flash some old-timer credentials, I covered the GOP convention in 1988 when Dan Quayle was the bait and Don Kowet, then-media critic for the Washington Times, typed out the phrase "feeding frenzy," giving it a new and enduring currency. In Mr. Schmidt's interview with Mr. Kurtz — which Mr. Kurtz described as "extraordinary" and "emotional" — Mr. Schmidt explained what it was like to be on the receiving end of such an attack.
"The campaign has been inundated by hundreds and hundreds of calls from some of the most respected reporters and news organizations," Mr. Schmidt said. "Many reporters have called the campaign and have apologized for asking the questions and said, `Our editors are making us do this, and I am ashamed.'"
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madonna comparing McCain to hitler.
name escapes me—newsman on Fox—called Sarah “a wacky right-winger.”
whoopie called Sarah “a nazi.”
oprah refuses to have Sarah on her show; but she had obama(she's a hypocrite.)
BTW, notice the lack of capital letters for the slime balls. They don't deserve them, for thy are lower than cockroaches.
In order to fight the devil, you’ve first got to acknowledge his existence. Perhaps we’ve reached that point now.
Like B. Hussein's "my Muslim faith", another Freudian slip.
HAHAHA...it sounds like "the peter meter" report.
I would love to see Sarah do an answer to Bill Maher calling her a stewardess.
We all know she would kick his sorry butt.
When my principal asked me to show An Inconvenient Truth to my Am Lit class I said no. It was that simple.
When will they ask the Obamas any hardball questions?
Hmmm.. True Osacar Wilde tradition...
Now just imagine if McCain or Palin had these ties: to an America-hating preacher, a confirmed ex-terrorist who was proud of his terrorism, a Tony-Rezko-type friend who did him favors, and to ACORN and other radical groups. They’d have been headlining all that stuff since last January. Obama’s past and present associations would sunk any other candidate before they left the harbor. Big Media knows that Obama is the socialist they’ve been waiting for since McGovern collapsed.
What Schmidt went on to relate explains why. The questions have come in, wave after wave, asking, as Kurtz wrote, "whether (Sarah) Palin is really the mother of a 4-month-old baby, whether her amniotic fluid has been tested, and whether she would submit to a DNA test to establish the child's parentage."
More questions: Is Sarah Palin the grandmother of Trig Palin, the 4-month-old born with Downs syndrome, and is her 17-year-old daughter Bristol the mother? Will Trig Palin's birth certificate be made available to the media? Exactly when, last April, did Mrs. Palin go into labor, and did her contractions increase or decrease as she traveled home from Texas to an Alaskan hospital to give birth? And about eldest son, Track Palin, who serves in the Army and is about to deploy to Iraq: Is he a drug addict?
They can't get enough. Compare to what Driftless wrote:
Now just imagine if McCain or Palin had these ties: to an America-hating preacher, a confirmed ex-terrorist who was proud of his terrorism, a Tony-Rezko-type friend who did him favors, and to ACORN and other radical groups.
Just look at the fact the media has investigative reporters on every aspect of her life and is making everything a controversy. When is such attention to every little thing thrown at Obama and Biden? Why are they making everything a controversy in Gov. Palin’s life? This is beyond abhorrent and the press is really discredited with this. I like that McCain’s campaign is at least hitting back and calling them out on it and they just need to cite all the asinine ‘reporting’ in regards to her that is nothing but an attempt at character assassination and nothing to do with the issues.
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