[Mrs Mayor]

"...but fair-minded Americans surely know that it is unnecessary and mean-spirited.

Not to mention false. How many media outlets covered Palin being cleared of charges relating to the trooper firing "scandal," after the blitz of stories trying to indict her? Reminds me of the 230+ stories that came out accusing Newt Gingrich of tax evasion, and not one of those same authors published the not guilty verdict.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Not to mention false. How many media outlets covered Palin being cleared of charges relating to the trooper firing "scandal," after the blitz of stories trying to indict her?

Remember the hyperventillating about the "missing munitions" or whatver the heck it was in Iraq during the 2004 election? I still have no idea what happened with that, since that story just fell off the face of the earth when it didn't undermine Bush the way it was intended.