The attacks on Gov. Palin intensified this weekend with all aspects of her personal life being flashed on most news channels. It is amazing that even a hurricane hitting New Orleans couldn't slow the medias response to Sen. McCain's Vice Presidential pick, considering they still haven't gotten around to fully investigating the Democratic Presidential candidate, Barack Obama. Of course, Sen. McCain didn't help himself by picking a running mate with a history of prospective issues. How has the media responded in a lopsides way to the different compaigns.
Internet and tv news organizations have run non-stop programming concerning Gov. Palin's family and there individual problems. The same sentence that announces her as the candidate also states that her son and husband are not Republicans. In a breaking story earlier today, every news organization has been quick to announce that her 17-year old daughter is pregnant. The New York Times has actually run three page one stories on these rumors just today.
The Washington Post has published stories connected with as yet unsubstantiated allegations that Gov. Palin misused her authority in an attempt to get her ex-brother-in-law fired from his job as a State Trooper. These connections and reports wouldn't be so agrivating if they weren't coming from news organizations that have continually ignored character stories concerning Sen. Obama.
For example you will not find a story in the Washington Post concerning Barack Obama's connections to ACORN, a radically left group. An examination of the history of ACORN is schocking. An article by Stanley Kurtz scrutinizes this relationship. ACORN has been tied to multiple possible voter fraud schemes. Also Sen. Obama's decisions for the dispersion of Federal Gant Money are also questionable. Whenever someone tries to discuss these character issues they are called partisan bigots. The problem isn't that the media is looking at Gov. Palin's flaws. The problem is they aren't also looking at Barack Obama's.
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Well, I am truly no great political mind, neither did I take any political science classes... and the extent of my appreciation for politics stretches about as far as the TV series "The West Wing"... My only thought to add is this:
Of course they're going after Palin. She's fresh meat in the national political tabloids. All the other candidates have been around long enough that anything that could be exploited already had been. Poor Ms. Palin is the center of attention these days... and I think Mccain is partially to blame. He saved his announcement for a time when he knew he'd need to get the cameras and attention back to him.
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