Posted on 09/03/2008 8:14:06 AM PDT by Mike Bates
Mainstream media complicity to destroy the candidacy of Sarah Palin is obvious. Numerous instances have been cited here at NewsBusters, some outrageously blatant. Slightly more subtle bias was evident in today's print edition of the Chicago Tribune. Nine letters to the editor were printed; eight of them were overtly anti-Palin and/or anti-Republican. The remaining letter was a plea for "the birth control education and access" that kids "so obviously need."
A few opinions expressed in today's "Voice of the People:"
But Sarah Palin herself is entirely fair game. The Republican Party has failed governing for eight painful years, all the while rubbing family values and their self-righteousness in the faces of the rest of us. Now that it has been revealed that Palin's 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, is pregnant, the GOP is unmasked and shown to be patently hypocritical and duplicitous. It's absolutely repugnant, and the stench is sure to last well beyond Nov. 4.
Who is going to take care of the 4-month-old while Sarah Palin travels the country campaigning? The 17-year-old? For the experience?
The revelation of the pregnancy of Sarah Palin's daughter does make one curious about Palin's ambition. What would possess someone, knowing that her teenage daughter was facing an unplanned pregnancy, to accept an offer to run for national office?
If family values are so important to Palin, she should have proved it by putting her family's privacy above political ambition.
Amazingly, the "Voice of the People" is strikingly similar to the views advanced by liberal Democrats and their lapdogs in the media. Accompanying the letters is an unflattering sketch of Sarah Palin. Might as well cover all bases, just in case someone doesn't read the submissions.
Does anyone - other than maybe Keith Olbermann or Jack Cafferty, who works his own magic in distilling the public's opinion - believe that 90 percent of the letters to the editor received by the Chicago Tribune are anti-Palin? That what the newspaper printed today is a typical sampling? I don't.
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TV, Interent, print - doesn’t matter. They are all in the same search and destroy mode. We are the enemy to their dreams of a socialist utopia with Messsiah BO.
OMG. F--- these folks. The smears are unbelievable.
The headline on the MSN news portal page was “Aides Prepare Palin’s Speech.” Like she’s too stupid to do it herself.
Aides ALWAYS prepare for speeches. Would they have said that about Obama? Biden? I think not.
I’d like to look back to see if there were similar letters to the editor concerning John Edward’s running for President during the time his wife was (and still is) dealing with breast cancer. By all rights, John should have been at home caring for his wife and their children ... Somehow, I doubt we’ll find them. Actually, the MSM played along and dragged as much sympathy out of it as was possible. And, when it was revealed that he had an affair WHILE HIS WIFE WAS DEALING WITH BREAST CANCER, the MSM said it was a “private family matter”. Parity?? Hardly.
Here in LA county eight of nine with the left over one avoiding open hostility would be considered fair and balanced.
Of course not. But those are the only ones they would print.
The libs are in a full melt down. They're terrified of Governor Palin.
Even more so than usual, which is a lot.
Once the Dems settle down they will issue talking points to their loyal subjects ineach state. Then they will send their letters to the editors.
What is funny is when you read such a letter in your local paper, then get a paper from another state and see the same letter in it but “written” by a different person.
The real subtext of the whole 17-year-old-unwed-mother story is that it paints the GOP as opposed to contraception as well as to abortion.
And that baggage is fatal unless the party unambiously refutes it, which it is failing to do.
That’s exactly what happens at the Los Angeles Times. Most letters they publish support a liberal point of view that reflects the editorials and papers stance on things. Occasionally to be “fair” they will let in 1 letter that doesn’t support their way of thinking and bracket it with 2 letters that do. I look on the letters to the editor section of the LA Times as an extension of the editor’s position not the genuine voice of the people.
American elections have boiled down to the moron voters vs. intelligent voters.
Who's been taking care of Obama's girls?
Note to Soledad O'Brien, who asked at 10:15 EDT today, "Why is questioning Gov Palin, sexist?" It's because you and your ilk wouldn't ask the same of BHO.
For some reason, I predict one of those 10% layoff articles about this paper in the near future.
RE: “Here in LA county eight of nine with the left over one avoiding open hostility would be considered fair and balanced.”
I assume you mean Los Angeles County. If so, YES, checking out the L.A. Times any old day will find all but one “letter to the editor” slamming the right on any topic. And oh yeah, that’s “fair and balanced.”
L.A. Times, however, is about to go under — loads of staff fired, sections omitted, desperate attempts to get new readers. They might ask themselves why — it’s not all because everyone wants their news via internet or TV — I would love a good newspaper — much easier to read than abbreviated tidbits on screen.
Good memory. WLS-TV also joined in the lawsuit to release Ryan's divorce papers.
What an absolutely moronic statement this is. Oh wait, that's right, consider the source as they say.
Soledad is also worked up about Sarah's lack of travel. If that's the criterion for VP qualification, my sister - who's been around the world - should be the candidate.
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