Conservative bloggers are up in arms over the MSM's coverage of the Republican Convention:
Wolf Blitzer and the rest of the CNN team seized every possible opportunity to put down and criticize the Republican message and tonight's speakers - and to belittle Sarah Palin as much as possible, even though she didn't even speak tonight. Every single point and every element of the Republican message tonight was criticized, not just explained or reported, but criticized or totally framed to be negative.Jim Geraghty puts it this way:
I'm usually a fan of Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, and he has me on his CNN program regularly. He declares, via Twitter, "McCain people are seriously pissed at the press and not bothering to hide it." Gee, I can't imagine why. They're treating the running mate's family like the stars of a deranged reality show, they've botched several key facts about her in their reporting, and several networks just ignored Fred Thompson's speech, in order to showcase their own talking heads bashing Palin.With the MSM as an adjunct to their campaign, its a wonder that Barack Obama is not doing better. Perhaps the public sees what is so blatantly obvious.
Consider Brent Bozell on Savaging Sarah Palin:
John McCain made a bold choice in not merely picking a woman, but picking a pro-life woman courageous enough to put her motherhood where her mouth is. Now the media want him to pay dearly for it. The idea that they would lecture anyone else about rumor-mongering or "Swift-boating" ought to be laughed off the public stage.And read Michelle Malkin on The Four Stages of Conservative Female Abuse:
Echoing the bottom-feeders in the liberal blogosphere, mainstream journalists and Obama water-carriers now question Palin's commitment to motherhood and even challenge her prenatal care decisions in an effort to destroy her. Forget about questioning their patriotism. I question their sanity.In the end, the consistent and unbalanced attacks may actually help McCain/Palin as voters recoil from reporting that is an obvious attempt to discredit an otherwise down to earth and upright individual.
Update: More from Michelle Malkin - does this look balanced?
IMHO, the pick of Sarah Palin for VP, has the liberal left and the media feeling a bit desperate because they know that the majority of Americans are not fanatical about left-wing policies and practices. So apparently they are living out the old expression, "Desperate times calls for desperate measures" in their attack on her and her family. The left is not more powerful than the right - they're just louder.
IMHO, the pick of Sarah Palin for VP shows the Republican party cares more about having lots of babies then protecting the nation. SP has no businesses being VP, and she doesn't even teach her daughter how to use birth control. Maybe she never learned herself... would explain her 5 children. Birth Control, you know, those things like condoms and pills, could have helped her daughter from being in the situation she is in now.
IMHO, the pick of Sarah Palin underscores the Republican Party's high view of justice, which recognizes every human as worthy of life, not just those who are wanted by some.
what about the innocent Iraqi's who have gotten killed?
what about the life of people who have committed a crime?
what about the lives of the living who die of malnutrition or poor medical care?
pro-lifers are so hypocritical. They dont even realize the whole prolife idea is just to have more Christians to increase their influence... It has nothing to do with the morals behind it.