Sean Hannity refers to 2008 as the year that journalism died in America. He’s right.
The mainstream media have long ago stopped being a go-to source of objective news of political campaigns; they have had a definite bias to the Left for as long as I can remember. That bias has been kicked into overdrive this year as journalists and pundits have fallen in love with Barack Obama.
Supporters of Hillary Clinton were probably among the first to notice how deep this devotion to The Anointed One truly goes. The media never really saw John McCain as much of a threat, so they pretty much ignored him – until the moment when he named Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate a little more than a month ago.
Sarah Palin has redefined the campaign of 2008. She certainly has energized the conservative base of the Republican Party. She also renewed the hopes of many Hillary Clinton supporters who longed to see a woman elected this year.
And so it began.
Teams were immediately dispatched to Alaska with one objective: dig up any and all dirt that can be found on Gov. Palin. They talked to people; they plowed through garbage cans and wastebaskets. And what they couldn’t find, they made up — such as the baseless rumor that Sarah and Todd Palin’s newborn baby Trig is the offspring of her 17-year old daughter, Bristol. Other rumors include Sarah’s alleged adulterous affair with her husband’s business partner, book burnings that didn’t happen, Troopergate, the false claim that rape victims had to pay for their own rape kits. And on and on it goes.
Mind you, this same group of “journalists” cannot work up sufficient curiosity to look into Barack Obama’s background, specifically his questionable associations with convicted real estate developer Tony Rezko, unrepentant Pentagon bomber Bill Ayers, ACORN, Jim Johnson, Franklin Raines, and others. See, to question the first African American Presidential candidate about these things, or anything, is considered racist, no matter how slimy some of his connections may be.
As the McCain/Palin ticket started to show a bump in the polls, the media turned their bias into a virtual witch hunt. Not content to challenge the Governor’s experience (more than Obama’s), the mainstream media has resorted to quizzing her on her knowledge of Supreme Court cases and badgering her on her choice of reading material.
Gov. Palin doesn’t need anyone to come to her defense on these issues; she’s demonstrated the ability to hold her own against these media lightweights. And the line of questioning is not necessarily inappropriate; but unfortunately, a double standard is applied. Voters need to hear Sarah Palin answer difficult questions, but they need to hear that from Barack Obama as well. Many disturbing stories about the man at the top of the Democratic ticket are being virtually ignored, and we are all at risk as a result.
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