Press turns personal against Palin

The current, American mainstream media is the most corrupt in the history of the country. They created their fraudulent, socialist candidate, ran the primary debates, and made a heavy investment. Now they find that the Republican ticket consists of REAL Americans. They are in shock and will attack teenage family members. What vile snakes they are.

I agree with Garland. The press is so lame. This kind of attacking will backlash heavy on them. I for one don't watch network news anymore.

yeah, she's tough enough to stand up to terrorists, but not tough enough to stand up jounalists. waaah, waaah, waaah...

VP Palin is brave, and her family strong to be willing participants in a public media smearing. Take your best shot leftist media, my money's on Sarah. My vote too.

I was excited to see that McCain had asked a woman to be his VP. I honestly didn't know who Sarah Palin was. I still don't. Letting her daughter date the town bad boy for at least a year without ever discussing with her the need for birth control was irresponsible. Letting her go to wild parties where they were drinking hard whiskey (photographs her friends posted all over MySpace)and making gang gestures into the camera wasn't responsible parenting, either. Sarah should have had access to their MySpace as every parent in America has been warned time and time again, year after year. And she has 4 more kids, one a special needs child, to focus on, in addition to being the President of the United States? Which ball would she let drop first? I hope the legal accusations aren't true about her trying to get her sister's ex-husband fired from the police force so he'd be unemployed and therefore lose a child custody case. His boss couldn't legally fire him for no reason, so Palin fired his boss? If this is true, we have someone who is already, so early in her career, using her power cavalierly for personal benefit. If it's not true, I'll feel a little better about her, even despite her Jurassic ideas about how oil from Alaska will save this country.

Garland has a handle on the media hatchet work. It is amazing to see the arrogance of the journalists who assume they do the "vetting". Their vetting of Barack Obama is a joke. They accepted Obama at face value. They never vetted him at all. They have been busy covering his tracks and accepting his spoon-fed story line. There have been no questions about Obama's college years at Columbia. There have been no questions about his admitted use of hard drugs. There has been no questioning about how Obama could be in Chicago politics and never condemn any of the corruption and cronyism that exists in that fair city. No one ever pushes him on his sources of money. His money spigot is accepted as a miracle. He has gotten a pass on his broken promise--from his pledge to accept public financing and spending limits, to his promises to face down big oil while he voted for subsidies in the new energy bill. During the primary the media tried to bury all the stories that might harm Obama's ascension to the nomination. The TUCC-Rev. Wright episode comes to mind. Obama was only asked about Rev. Wright after Rev Wright was seen on national TV making his bigoted statements. It took 18 months for this supposed vetting to happen and 6 weeks for Obama to shed Rev Wright. I am willing to bet that Obama will resurrect his links to Trinity United after the election. Obama has already described the new pastor in glowing terms.

Interesting article. It all seems to be about vetting. I didn't know it was the job of the media to "vet" a candidate, I thought it was a team of advisors and ultimately the people? For journalists, I thought the only vetting they were responsible for was to ensure the copy was correct. In this current opinion instead of news on the front page environment, it would seem that the editiors assumption of vetting expansion of the first amendment is more voyeuristic than independent sourcing. By the way how is William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn? Has the media vetted Obama?

I have enjoyed the two speeches that Gov. Palin has delivered. Given that all candidates have someone to write their speeches you still have to deliver and the content is approved by the person who will deliver the speech. I think that she was a great choice and a fine example to all the women in our great country and will represent all of the citizens of our great country. It is going to be hard for the dems to tear her down when she actually has more experience that the dems presidential candidate. Besides she is a lot better looking than BHO or JB.

WOW - Millions of REAL Americans are saying "I'm Impressed". America has found their Margaret Thatcher. Millions will now be asking WWSD? What Would Sarah Do?

I know it shouldn't but the arrogance of the main stream media still shocks me. Journalism isn't even a true profession. This pretending that somehow they should have been given the opportunity to vet the candidate while we all know it is nothing more than vile partisan politics. The truly good news in all of this is that you can sense their fear. McCain picked a candidate they most feared. A woman with more executive experience than their messiah and suddenly to the American people their emperor has no clothes. The liberals are scared and they are slapping back like spoiled children.

At what point do we say upfront that the mainstream media is trying to throw this election? At what point does it become actionable? I remember a time when we all looked down on the press in places like the USSR. What, did they all move over here and take over our media?

Wow McCleanGirl you really have the inside track with Palin. You must be very good friends seeing as how you know for a fact that Palin never talked about birth control with her daughter. When she told you that what was your response? Did you ask her about it initially or did she just bring it up? By the way, one of her "4 more kids" happens to be a 19 year old man and a member of our military. I may be wrong but I am guessing that by now he has figured out how to take care of himself even while he helps to protect you and the rest of us. Oh and she is running for VP not President. Perhaps that was a mere slip or perhaps you are prescient. I for one don't worry about her dropping the "ball". Heck Bill Clinton only had a daughter and a wife and an intern and he managed to avoid dropping the cigar, I mean "ball". Well unless you count his failure to address the more than gathering terrorism threat including his failure to get bin Laden when we had him squarely in our sites. Probably was worried that we would not have a chance to first read him his Miranda rights before we blew him up. We see how well that worked out.

RE: bandaid - At what point do we say upfront that the mainstream media is trying to throw this election? At what point does it become actionable?.. REPLY: Palin, in an interview regarding her being on the short list for McCain's VP, said, "Can someone tell me first, what a VP does? What exactly do they do? ANY OF YOU MEDIA HATERS GOT A PROBLEM WITH A RELEVANT NON SEXIST, INTELLIGENT QUESTION FOR SOMEONE NAMED ON A SHORT LIST FOR VP OF US? -- dante805 America has found their Margaret Thatcher Millions will now be asking WWSD? What Would Sarah Do? I HOPE THIS IS IS JUST A SICK JOKE! SHE IS NO MARGARET THATCHER.MAYBE HER BUTLER, BUT NOT THATCHER, AN INTELLIGENT, REVERED, EDUCATED, SEASONED POLITICIAN,UNLIKE MISSIE SARAH!

As for the media, contrast the difference between the way the press handled John Edwards and Sarah Palin. John Edwards, father of two children eight and ten, with a wife dying of cancer, juggling his mistress and love child, which much of the media knew about, gets a pass. Sarah Palin and her family get the opposite, unremitting attacks and desperate searches for something damaging to say about her. What's up with that?