It’s Sarah Palin’s Party Tonight
03 September 2008 4:17 pm by Taylor Marsh
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| by Paul Szep |
How dare you publish that cartoon! You’re sexist. Yeah, yeah, I heard that from the unhinged fringe too. Sometimes an editorial cartoon is simply a beautiful thing to behold. Paul Szep does it again.
The McCain campaign is trying to make a mockery out of something very real, which HRC supporters know all too well. But McCain is taking a real issue and turning it into an anti media campaign to try and stop legitimate questions about Sarah Palin, conjuring up bogus claims of sexism to try and construct a facade behind which Palin can hide. Palin isn’t even being made available to interviews. McCain canceled his interview with CNN, because Campbell Brown dared to ask legitimate questions.
Today’s must read comes from, of all people, Joe Klein:
There is a tendency in the media to kick ourselves, cringe and withdraw, when we are criticized. But I hope my colleagues stand strong in this case: it is important for the public to know that Palin raised taxes as governor, supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it, pursued pork-barrel projects as mayor, tried to ban books at the local library and thinks the war in Iraq is “a task from God.” The attempts by the McCain campaign to bully us into not reporting such things are not only stupidly aggressive, but unprofessional in the extreme.
Tom Brokaw was talking about Palin having to see her son off to Iraq after the convention. Did anyone at NBC say that same thing about Joe Biden’s son, Beau?
Lock ‘n load, baby. Excerpt of Palin’s speech (and Rudy’s) in the comments. Game on.
