Tuesday, September 9, 2008

So I was wrong

So much time has passed since my last entry.    In that time,  Obama won the primaries,  and Hillary pulled herself up by her pump-straps and has endorsed her former rival.   Cynics label her support as necessary for a 2012 or 2016 run for office,   I'm certain that's partly true,  but I think that she also knows that this country can't take another four years of radical, big spending, unilateralist, christian-conservative rule.  

The sad truth is,  just as the the pundits and anchors tore down Hillary in a more forceful manner than her opponant,  Obama is now getting a dose of the same medicine.    Call it Clinton Blow-Back.  The media,  guilty over it's mistreatment of Hillary during the Democratic primary,  is giving Sarah Palin a pass on tough questions or scrutiny.  

In fact,  almost all of the fact-checking and background checks have been performed by new-journalists and ordinary citizens.    This information trickles up to the mainstream media where it is either debunked or incorporated into the soaring narrative of a tough-talking, moose-burger eating,  baby-having,  bee-hive wearing, lady-maverick.