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Spectator Coffee House Blog ^ | September 16, 2008 | Melanie Phillips

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Almost every day I read yet another smear or piece of vitriolic spite against Sarah Palin which grossly misrepresents what she has actually said or simply bursts with what can only be described as hysterical hatred towards her.

The Newsbusters blog has provided the evidence of how ABC News edited the transcript of its interview of Sarah Palin by Charles Gibson to create the misleading impression that she was an ignorant warmonger wholly out of her depth. The unedited transcript of that interview shows the truth to be quite different. Now, Conservativehome has drawn attention to remarks made by David Davies, the Tory MP for Monmouth who has been called the most right-wing MP in Parliament (apologies for the earlier brief glitch where the wrong MP was referred to). Yet he told the Western Mail that he supports Obama rather than McCain in the US election because he is

"so frightened by the blind spot the Republicans have on foreign policy."

Apparently, 20/20 vision consists of talking to enemies such as Cuba Iran and Syria. Some of us might think that appeasement is the blind spot of the west and that if history teaches us anything it is that attempting to negotiate with enemies who are in the process of actively undermining, attacking or conspiring against you has always led to disaster. Davies’s views remind us once again that the strong impulse in the west to run up the white flag to our enemies is by no means confined to the left but runs strongly on the right – so much so that a right-wing Tory will even support a presidential candidate who has links to extreme left-wing radicalism if he is also the candidate of global appeasement.

Now look specifically at what Davies says about Palin’s remarks about

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The Newsbusters blog has provided the evidence of how ABC News edited the transcript of its interview of Sarah Palin by Charles Gibson to create the misleading impression that she was an ignorant warmonger wholly out of her depth.

NewsBusters? Never heard of it.