Media’s Palin Derangement Syndrome: Suddenly, Old Media Thinks They are DNA Technicians
-By Warner Todd Huston
John McCain’s campaign spokesman is reporting that the media has deluged the campaign with demands that it provide DNA samples to “prove” that baby Trig is the true offspring of vice presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin. Imagine the effrontery of this demand? Imagine the ignorance and outrageousness of this attack that Governor Palin is receiving at the hands of the Old Media? Worse, realize that this storm has been raised by gutter websites like DailyKos and the DemocraticUnderground! The media is not only indulging in the lowest of attacks they are allowing the most extreme, unhinged of the far left to dictate the direction of their coverage. The Old Media are worse than dancing puppets for the hatemongers on the left.
The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz reported that McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt is being buried under an avalanche of these unseemly demands for Palin’s DNA by the media establishment.
In an extraordinary and emotional interview, Steve Schmidt said his campaign feels “under siege” by wave after wave of news inquiries that have questioned whether Palin is really the mother of a 4-month-old baby, whether her amniotic fluid had been tested and whether she would submit to a DNA test to establish the child’s parentage.
Imagine the temerity of these media scavengers?
Even Kurtz admits that hate sites like DailyKos is leading the media around by the nose.
The intensity of media inquiries hit a new level after an anonymous blogger on the liberal Web site Daily Kos last weekend charged that McCain’s running mate is actually the grandmother of Trig Palin, the 4-month-old baby born with Down syndrome, and that the real mother is her daughter, 17-year-old Bristol Palin. That led to mainstream media inquiries, which prompted the McCain camp to disclose in a statement Monday that Bristol is five months pregnant and plans to have the baby and marry the teenage father.
These disgusting allegations were proven completely false on the same day that the ignorati at the DailyKos raised them. Dozens of photos were produced that proved that Palin was pregnant and eyewitness accounts were brought forward corroborating the photos. Yet the mean spiritedness of the press corps pressed onward anyway with these hateful attacks on a mother of a special needs child, a baby with Down Syndrome and a teenaged girl.
And now they have the gall to demand DNA?
It causes me, at least, to ask some salient questions. WHY didn’t the press ramp up their demands for DNA during those fateful days when the Blue Dress filled with Bill Clinton’s DNA was all the topic of the news? Why have they not been demanding DNA evidence to prove or disprove John Edward’s is or isn’t the father of the Rielle Hunter’s baby? They don’t seem all so interested in DNA in those cases, do they?
The Old Media double standard is in full effect here, folks. Any tiny line of smear can be used freely to destroy a Republican and their family members — including children. But when it comes to liberals… why, it’s hands off, it’s all about safeguarding a candidate’s privacy, sex isn’t a topic, and leave the candidate’s kids alone!
To be a journalist is the most shameful profession on earth at this point. And they just keep sinking lower and lower.
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Posted by Warner Todd Huston on September 3, 2008 9:27 am
» Filed Under Liberal Media/Bias, News, Obama/Biden, Sarah Palin
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This issue is whether Palin is lying to cover up for her daughter. Hopefully, McCain/Palin will not win the election and she will go back to Alaska!!
Then, to be fair, we demand DNA from Obama’s daughters and Biden’s children to ensure that neither of them is lying.
Also, there should be a pelvic exam for Michelle Obama to ensure that she has never had an abortion, and then a comparative DNA profile run on all of the children on the South Side of Chicago to prove that none of them are Barack Obama’s or Michelle Obama’s love children.
Maybe I missed something but the only liberal accuser mentioned is an anonymous blogger on Daily Kos. I agree that inquiring into the baby’s parentage is in poor taste, but why then won’t anybody name the reporters who have inquired? Has Keith Obermann inquired? Geraldo? Chris Matthews? Tom Brokaw?
Also, your article suggests that Palin responded to the inquiry by pointing out that her daughter was pregnant (out of wedlock). Why would a social conservative volunteer this information? Maybe there’s something to the allegation. Sarah Palin seems like a nice woman but in politics everybody lies their [edited] off all day every day.