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September 15, 2008
New York Times Flushes Last Remnants of Credibility in Anti-Palin Attack
Posted by Dave Blount at September 15, 2008 9:16 AM
Power Line summarizes a cartoonishly biased major hit piece that appeared this weekend in the quasi-official organ of the Democrat Party's left wing, the New York Times:
Remarkably enough, the reporters/Obama campaign staff couldn't find room for a single good word about Governor Palin. Thus, while they acknowledge that Palin currently has an approval rating of 80% (86%, actually), making her perhaps the most popular politician in the country, the reader is left to puzzle as to what her constituents could possibly like about her.
Every person who engages in public life has opponents and enemies, and if you talk exclusively to those people, and write an article solely from their perspective, you can easily make the subject look bad. (Imagine, say, an article on Abraham Lincoln that consisted entirely of quotes from Copperhead Democrats.) If the Times wanted to test that proposition, they could send a team of reporters to Chicago to search out and interview people who don't like Barack Obama. Somehow, though, I don't think that's on their agenda.
The preposterous but terrifying Obama campaign isn't the only casualty of Sarah Palin's remarkable rise to prominence. Due to the vociferous and wildly unfair nature of its attack on her, the media's partisan nature has been revealed in all its vindictive hideousness to every informed member of the public.
Their hatred for her will be their downfall.
On tips from V the K and Rob Banks.
