Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Media / Politics / Woods Tea Party Lapdogs in MSM Give Sarah Palin Free Ride in Nashville
Posted by Jeff Woods on Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:04 AM
You betcha! But what happened when Sarah Palin spoke at the tea party convention the night after the Obama birther Joseph Farah spoke? The dreaded MSM, bane of conservatives' existence, gave Palin a free ride.
Bottom line: The birther movement embarrasses most conservatives. Yet even when they invite a birther nut to speak at their conference, the press still won't ask tough questions. Instead, journalists politely look away.It didn't used to work that way. There's been a long media tradition of holding politicians accountable for their public associations, especially when they appear at conventions that feature fringe rhetoric from controversial speakers. Reporting on who politicians agree to share a stage with has always been considered not only fair game, but genuinely newsworthy.
It's just that in this instance, the press gave Palin a complete and unobstructed free ride, a free ride Al Gore never would have been afforded.
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