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Hi Bill, In your recent Townhall piece you posit that there are Republicans who feel that Governor Palin is too unqualified to lead, so it's better for them if they maginalize her now so they won't have to deal with her again in 2012. You couldn't be more wrong. Her assailants, from the Right and the Left (and the media..., ahem) have seen what she has done in Alaska as Governor. Huge Oil Company lobbies shut down. Oil revenues going into the hands of the voters. Powerful, entrenched "old boy network" mavens gone, castrated, or in jail... Democrats and Republicans....

The media industry has been infested by the rise of pseudo-journalists who go against journalism's long tradition to serve the public with accurate information, Los Angeles Times Editor John S. Carroll told a packed room in the Gerlinger Lounge on Thursday. Carroll delivered the annual Ruhl Lecture, titled "The Wolf in Reporter's Clothing: The Rise of Pseudo-Journalism in America." The lecture was sponsored by the School of Journalism and Communication. "All over the country there are offices that look like newsrooms and there are people in those offices that look for all the world just like journalists, but they are...

    Fair and Unbalanced Racism     -     08/29/03      By      Rodolfo F. Acuna      Fox News and the O'Reilly factor have touched off a tempest in the      proverbial teapot by denouncing California Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante for      not renouncing his affiliation with a Chicano student organization of      which he was a member in the 1970s. These so-called journalists equate      MECHA with the Klu Klux Klan and violence, which at a time of general      hysteria over terrorism is irresponsible.      Moreover, the accusations happen to be unfounded and lack any probative     ...