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Take the manufactured Oprah-Palin controversy. Oprah Winfrey endorsed Obama in 2007 and said she would not have him or any other candidates on her show again until after the election. The Drudge Report ran a story that Oprah had "banned" Palin, although 1) Oprah had also de facto "banned" McCain, Joe Biden and Obama, and 2) it's uncertain that Palin even wanted to be interviewed by Obama's most famous backer. Nonetheless, it became a big story. Tom Brokaw asked whether Oprah's decision was "élitist," probably the first and last time the term will ever...
Will critics of bias be satisfied? No. There's too much incentive to move the goalposts. Thus McCain surrogates took one case of gender bias--Palin's being asked if she could be both a VP and a mom--and extrapolated from it that questioning her experience must also be sexist. And they also blamed the media for a feeding frenzy over Bristol Palin's pregnancy, when in fact the story had emerged much like John Edwards' affair: mainstream media aired it after the principals volunteered it, pushed by rumors on blogs. It's easy to run against the media...
...News, a blatant pander to members of their party's base who don't like Fox's conservative hosts. And Obama's partisans cried bias over an ABC debate during the primaries that focused heavily on Jeremiah Wright and was moderated by ... Gibson, who just got the nod from Palin...
...photos of Sarah Palin on the campaign trail here...
Given your defense of Sarah Palin's judgment on Bristol Palin, do you take back what you said about Jamie Lynn Spears' pregnancy--that her parents were to blame? Emil Caillaux, LIMA...