Balance? What balance? Well, let's try this on for size (and keep in mind that this is out of the Seattle Post Intelligencer...):
- Enough recycled humor about an already limping candidate. Jokes make for cheap laughs. It's time for articulated arguments, which make for meaningful discussions and thoughtful voting decisions.
- How can we make an educated decision about a candidate when we're unwilling to even hear her out?
- Commentators have criticized Palin for being a former beauty queen -- I criticize the media and consumers who have made the presidential race into a beauty pageant, where aesthetics and empty rhetoric have become more important than actual policy issues.
- If you're not going to vote for Sarah Palin…it should be because you disagree with her policies -- not because you agree Fey does a damn good satirical impression. Don't be a passive observer of pop culture; know who you're voting (or not voting) for based on candidate stances and solutions. Don't be a laugher, be a thinker -- and only then, go be a voter.
Compared to most of what we've seen out of the MSM, that is incredible advice.
In case I haven't said it before, I have no illusions that the MSM getting buyer's remorse or actually doing the right thing. I just find it funny that multiple sources picked today to have the balanced arguments. I'm sure that tomorrow it will back to the usual drivel.