Tuesday, July 28, 2009
The Chron's Bi-Partisanship.
Phil's wisdom:
Police arrests a black man in his own home, the president finds this "stupid," the media makes a fuss that forces him to address the issue again. The media is right.
Sarah Palin attacks the media for going after one of her many ethics violations or reporting one of her confounding statements. The media is, of course, wrong. Leave that poor woman alone.
Quote:
The President, in his non-apology apology (his "stupidity" remark "was unfortunate", he said, using an uncharacteristically passive voice) over the Henry Louis Gates scuffle, talked about it being "ratcheted up." We all know who's responsible for that, you 24/7 media dogs. Yesterday, two days later, Sarah Palin told a hunted, red-meat crowd in Alaska that the press better leave her successor's family alone, and needs to "stop makin' things up."
....Sarah Palin might not be able to see Russia from her house, but her basketball diaries riff yesterday at least spoke more to her life experience than Obama playing cops and robbers.
That's definitely poor writing, and we can understand the affinity with Palin from that point of view ("It is as throughout all Alaska that big wild good life teeming along the road that is north to the future.") But it does look like the editor-at-large of the Chron thinks the media's take on the Gates/Obama/policeman is legitimate, while Sarah Palin is a poor victim of media attacks. Seriously.
The Chron's bi-partisanship: a wrong attack on a progressive should be balanced by a wrong defense of a Republican.
Quote:
The President, in his non-apology apology (his "stupidity" remark "was unfortunate", he said, using an uncharacteristically passive voice) over the Henry Louis Gates scuffle, talked about it being "ratcheted up." We all know who's responsible for that, you 24/7 media dogs. Yesterday, two days later, Sarah Palin told a hunted, red-meat crowd in Alaska that the press better leave her successor's family alone, and needs to "stop makin' things up."
....Sarah Palin might not be able to see Russia from her house, but her basketball diaries riff yesterday at least spoke more to her life experience than Obama playing cops and robbers.
That's definitely poor writing, and we can understand the affinity with Palin from that point of view ("It is as throughout all Alaska that big wild good life teeming along the road that is north to the future.") But it does look like the editor-at-large of the Chron thinks the media's take on the Gates/Obama/policeman is legitimate, while Sarah Palin is a poor victim of media attacks. Seriously.
The Chron's bi-partisanship: a wrong attack on a progressive should be balanced by a wrong defense of a Republican.
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