Byron York: The real bias of 'Game Change' (GOP base filled w/hatred, racism & xenophobia)

They tried to spin it into a real hit-piece (particularly the ending), but in the end, I found myself liking Sarah Palin MORE for certain events in the film.

Charlie Rose interviewed the book's authors (Halperin & Heilemann, both of whom have been much in demand on the talking-head shows in the last week), and in the chat passed around his table, as at Gwen Ifill's Washington Week table on Friday night, the comments about Sarah Palin were much less censoriouse, and indeed I thought I heard, from Ifill and others, some murmurs of compassion and understanding for Sarah, together with a universal understanding and acceptance of her rock-star charisma, which flows precisely from her character.

Which puts me in mind of a famous dressing-down that Whittier once addressed to Edgar Allan Poe, for having criticized Longfellow as a somehow inadequate poet, at the end of which Whittier came down to the "granite" of character, which he judged in Longfellow's case to be proof against Poe's stylistic complaints about Longfellow's form in composition.

Game Change authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann wrote, "At rallies across the country, there were jagged outbursts of rage and accusations of sedition hurled at Obama.

Sedition? Just why is yelling something ugly at a Presidential candidate considered sedition?

The sedition charge was directed at Barack Obama, by conservatives, not the other way around.

The film tried to spin that as egomania. I don't think there was any egotism at all on display here. I believe Sarah Palin couldn't compromise who she is to fit McCain's VP mold.

Late-nite Sunday and overnight Monday-morning news on ABC News showed a quick reaction interview with a Democrat consultant named Lehane, who looks, acts, and reviewed Sarah as portrayed in the film, as if he were a rabid mongoose. He literally looks like one.

But some of the ABC personnel's comments were, again, less censorious and "slammy" than I expected, and there was an undertow of actual sympathy for Sarah. I was puzzled by that and wondered if there is some new, more insidious paradigm of Sarah-condemnation at work in Mouse House, but we'll have to await events. I wonder if Rush noticed it.

don’t forget that lovely Wallace woman who hated Sarah from the beginning.
Took them shopping, then fed the “hillbilly” meme to the press.

Are Schmidt and Wallace having a difficult time finding employment these days? Why would anyone trust them?

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