Posted by
m0t0r1zed on Wednesday, September 03, 2008 12:08:05 PM
The level of the media attacks and savagery against Gov. Palin in such a short amount of time has been astounding. In less than a week, she and her family have undergone more scrutiny than Obama has during the entire campaign. Many attack pieces have contained inaccuracies, been rather flimsy, and broken traditional rules within the media (such as using children as an indirect ploy to attack the candidate).
So, what in the world is going on?
I believe it's pretty simple. The media was simply caught flat-footed (aside from Glenn Beck) and know very little about her. They are in scramble mode and running around like headless chickens. A lot of the issues that the media is now bringing up against Palin are rather trivial and poorly thought-out. Had McCain hinted that she was a serious choice for VP several months ago, the media would have had time to dig through the trash and filter out the garbage. These haphazard stories coming out now would have been aired more gradually and with better scrutiny, and she would have gone from an unknown to a known entity.
Biden has many more strikes against him compared to Palin, but his scandals are all "old news." With Palin, everything is "new news" - even the most petty allegations.
So right now, the media and the DNC are thrashing about trying to acquire more info and sleaze. She seemed too good to be true for conservatives, and the media is set on proving that it was. The liberal talking heads couldn't stand parroting the positive, Republican talking points over and over, and rushed to find some dirt to rebutt them, and flush the unfamiliar taste out of their mouths.
Given the known liberal slant of the mainstream media, their behavior shouldn't come as a surprise. What is unusual is that their slipshod, shotgun-approach attacks are all happening in a very compressed time frame, which makes their bias brutally obvious and excessive, since normally the bias is meted out over a longer period and better camouflaged under a guise of rational arguments.