MSM only interested in Sarah Palin when she stumbles
This morning, while reading the blogs and checking my e-mail, I chanced on several clips of last night’s debate. Simply put, Sarah Palin looks much better than Joe Biden, more genuine, more comfortable in her own skin, better able to relate to the Americans outside Washington, D.C. Â She looks right at us and calls it as she sees it.
It seems, however, that the MSM is now downplaying the vice presidential debate. As Jonah Goldberg put it:
But it is amazing how the press can focus on how Palin’s a disaster and then the second she stops being one, the press yawns as if this is a non-story.
Guess it just doesn’t fit their story line. If she had stretched the truth and misrepresented her own record — and that of her opponent — as much as Joe Biden had, it wold be the lead story, not just of today, but of the week.
Wonder if the media will cover his misrepresentations and his constitutional ignorance?
(H/t Instapundit.)
UPDATE: Â Noting Biden’s constitutional gaffe, Michael Barone writes:
Biden’s performance was by and large acceptable, but he made some significant misstatements, notably on the Constitution. Article I of the Constitution is not about the executive branch, as Biden said, but about the legislative branch, in which Biden has served for 35 years. And the vice president doesn’t preside over the Senate just in cases of ties; he (or she) is entitled to preside over the Senate at any time. Imagine the uproar from Mainstream Media if Palin had made such errors!
(Emphasis added.) Now just read the whole thing!
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Wonder if the media will cover his misrepresentations and his constitutional ignorance?
Yeah, right after they get done investigating Bill Ayers, ACORN, Tony Rezko, and Larry Walsh.
And we can watch it on the network news right after we get back from ice-skating… in Hell.
Comment by V the K — October 3, 2008 @ 2:21 pm - October 3, 2008
For some reason, the media doesn’t seem to want to check out Jim Geraghty’s fact checking. I wonder why. At first I thought Joe Biden gave a powerful debate performance himself, but he was so far from the truth on so many points, SP should be declared the winner on not just style but also substance. (It also is a reminder of how hard the McCain-Palin campaign needs to work to correct both the Obama-Biden campaign and the media for distorting the truth.)
To be sure, I think SP got the current troop levels point wrong, i.e., we still have more troops in Iraq than pre-surge levels. Other than that (and getting the general’s name wrong), I haven’t really heard anything that was substantially wrong that she said. (If someone wants to point out other things, I’d be interested.) But ironically, it was the newcomer, not the career senator, who actually had the huge store of debate points that were actually true. Joe Biden did as well as one can expect to defend Obama and attack McCain, but unfortunately it often deviated greatly from the truth.
Comment by cme — October 3, 2008 @ 2:52 pm - October 3, 2008
sarah looked as nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof during the debate.
Comment by michael — October 3, 2008 @ 2:53 pm - October 3, 2008
I think the media is shocked again… not sure what to do!
Comment by Colocelt — October 3, 2008 @ 2:57 pm - October 3, 2008
So she looked nervous to you. What’s your point, Michael? She was probably concerned about doing a good job. Biden wasn’t bound by using the truth in his answers, so he had no reason to be nervous about anything.
Comment by Hunter — October 3, 2008 @ 2:58 pm - October 3, 2008
Hunter, you’ll have more luck if you just talk to the grown-ups.
Anyway. Sarah Palin is real America. She succeeded on her own terms. She went to a public college. She ran a business, a town, and a state. She loves America. She loves Jesus Christ. She loves capitalism.
In short, she is the exact opposite of the media and political elite in this country and they hate her for it.
And those of us who weren’t legacies to elite universities, who don’t live in large coastal urban areas, who don’t like performance art or see why the public should fund it, and who won’t renounce faith in God… they hate us too. Sarah Palin is just their proxy for it.
Comment by V the K — October 3, 2008 @ 3:26 pm - October 3, 2008
—sarah looked as nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof during the debate.—
Dude, I wish I could come off that well when I’m nervous.
Honestly, I don’t know anyone else who thinks she looked nervous. Maybe she was nervous, but she didn’t show it. It looked to me like she was being herself.
Comment by cme — October 3, 2008 @ 3:50 pm - October 3, 2008
I guess CNN is considered MSM. I was upset with CNN for being so impressed with Governor Palin’s debate performance. I agree with CNN’s focus group that Senator Biden clearly won the debate.
In addition to not knowing what “achilles heel” means, Governor Palin made about a dozen mistakes on facts and rpeated at least a half dozen lies about Senator Obama.
Comment by Jack Allen — October 3, 2008 @ 4:13 pm - October 3, 2008
Why doesn’t Fox news carry more of the gaffes of Biden/Obama and of the positives of Palin and McCain. When i flip to CNN they are always hammering their message. I’m an Independent but CNN is slamming the competition.
Comment by nobama — October 3, 2008 @ 4:22 pm - October 3, 2008
Palin only lost in the sense of being less of a Washington insider than Biden. I don’t see why being part of the problem for the last 36 years is such a great thing.
Comment by V the K — October 3, 2008 @ 4:32 pm - October 3, 2008
The little letter man has only a tired cliche in his little quiver to fire into his foot. Imagine that.
I saw no nervousness and I was looking for it. If there was nervousness on the stage it was Biden’s. He kept doing his 88 tooth grin while losing control of the twitch in his right eye.
Governor Palin ate “Joe’s” lunch and then advised him to improve the quality. There is no question that Biden is better at reading the runes of legislative mumbo-jumbo and doing the Senate shuffle. But Biden is a classic flyspeck on the pages of Senate history.
Palin is such a real person, that the MSM and libs have to resort to playground taunts. michael is as scared as a broken down nag in a dog food factory.
Comment by heliotrope — October 3, 2008 @ 5:31 pm - October 3, 2008
I’ll be volunteering at the Palin event here in the Los Angeles area tomorrow. As Hugh Hewitt says, it’s not that CA is in play – but this is such a big media market.
Needless to say, I am extremely excited, will report back and let you know how Los Angeles treats her.
Comment by Leah — October 3, 2008 @ 6:41 pm - October 3, 2008
I won’t even vote for McCain, but if Palin runs in 2012, I will do *anything* to support her. Money, volunteering, rubbing people out… anything.
Comment by V the K — October 3, 2008 @ 6:53 pm - October 3, 2008