The Coalition of the Swilling

I am all for fact checking reporting but to suggest CNN has been anything but kind to Palin is just wrong. If Sarah Palin is all that, why hide her from the media? I don't buy that they are trying to protect her from the nasty media, and if they are, then I don't want a VP that needs to be protected from reporters. Fact is there are a lot of questions this person should be anxious to answer to set the records straight and every day she refuses to answer questions is another day (deservedly) cynical America wonders what the truth is.

...to suggest CNN has been anything but kind to Palin is just wrong.

CNN and 'kind'? Let's fact check a little further into the same report, shall we? It was actually a CNN ANCHOR who started this whole schmear:

No Cut for "Special Needs" Kids


It's not true, as widely reported in mass e-mails, Web postings and at least one mainstream news source, that Palin slashed the special education budget in Alaska by 62 percent. CNN's Soledad O'Brien made the claim on Sept. 4 in an interview with Nicolle Wallace, a senior adviser to the McCain campaign:

Fact is what you call "questions" have been lies and distortions from the press and Democrats.

Totally aside from the "is it true" question, so often these "OH NOES they cut money from VULNERABLE PEOPLE" stories overlook something, like there was a bad bad rider on the bill, or it really wasn't going to do what it was being touted as doing, or something.

Or of course there's the old tactic of redefining "no increase" or "increase smaller than desired" as a "cut."

I always think of the old question, "So, have you stopped beating your wife?" when I hear these kind of things...they're setting it up so the person looks bad regardless of truth or the full story.

I can't decide which is sadder....the outrageous behavior of the MSM versus Governor Palin, or the fact that my BS meter is shattered into a thousand bits and pieces, thanks to the outrageous behavior of the MSM versus Governor Palin.

"but to suggest CNN has been anything but kind to Palin is just wrong."

I've been trying to think of a snarky yet clever response but I'm laughing too hard to concentrate.

"Fact is there are a lot of questions this person should be anxious to answer to set the records straight"

Too bad the media is too busy running their smear machine at flank speed and aren't the least bit interested in setting any record straight. If they were they'd dig into Obama's record with the same vigor. Of course the only vigor they show vis a vis Obama is to keep his dirty laundry tuck away out of sight.

JeffS -- yours too? Mine didn't so much shatter as it started emitting sparks, black smoke, and grating noises as all its delicate gears just jammed. I'm not sure what was the last straw, all I know is there are limits to how much bullshit even the finest of instruments can handle. Now what do I do with all this fused metal and glass?

Put a statue up at Lake Eola!

Andrea, at least you have something left. Me, I'm still picking shards out of my hair, and shrapnel from the walls and ceiling. It's a good think no one else was in the room, and I had the couch to dive behind.

I thought all you ignorant gun clingers had your couches out on the porch?

The old couch is on the porch. Now the new couch is the old couch, and I need a bigger porch.

With YOU, I thought the old GROUCH was on the porch.

The old grouch is on the couch with the pouch!

While the fogey with the stogey watches movies with Bogey.

Diggity dadgum, one more entry in the "CNN is nice to Palin" category.