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Linda Chavez
The Unexamined Life
Linda Chavez 9/5/2008
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The biggest story to emerge from the Republican National Convention was the media's effort to destroy Gov. Sarah Palin. Members of the Fourth Estate behaved more like a Democratic fifth column this week than they did like honest reporters. Palin's stunningly effective speech Wednesday night showed they will not easily take her down — but their malicious attacks on Gov. Palin's family prove that they will stop at nothing to achieve their aim. Since when is the private life of a 17-year-old fair game in a political campaign? Apparently only when that 17-year-old's mom is a Republican candidate.

Make no mistake — the press outed Bristol Palin's pregnancy. Reporters descended on Alaska following vile and false accusations on Internet blogs that Gov. Palin faked her own pregnancy and that her daughter was actually baby Trig's mother. These lies weren't only spread by left-wing fanatics but by journalists like Andrew Sullivan, whose blog appears on Atlantic.com, the online version of what was once one of the most respected magazines in the country. As the rumors got uglier, the McCain campaign decided they had no choice but to reveal to the world intimate details about Gov. Palin's daughter. And the media stood by their decision to muckrake by arguing for the public's
right to know.

If you don't think this reflects media bias, contrast this insatiable prying into Bristol Palin's life with the press's lack of curiosity about the behavior of another 17-year-old — one whose story would seem to have more relevance to this year's presidential election.

In his memoir "Dreams from My Father," Barack Obama describes his troubled teenaged years. "Pot had helped, and booze, maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack though," he recalls, though he admits he came close to trying heroin at the urging of a friend who shot up in front of him. He was deterred by the image "of an air bubble, shiny and round like a pearl, rolling quietly through my vein and stopping my heart," he says. "Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man."

Obama's drug use went on for at least a few years, though he is noticeably vague in describing exactly when it began, how extensive it was, or when it ended. At least one of his friends was arrested for drug possession; another had a mental breakdown after one too many acid trips. But Obama has been reticent to reveal the extent of his illegal activities — and the media haven't cared enough to pursue the question.

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Posted By: geoff  on Monday, September 08, 2008

We could also contrast Obama's admitted drug use with that of George "I can't remember if I ever did cocaine" W. Bush, and his conveniently forgotten DWI conviction. Besides the going AWOL and no one ever being able to find evidence he'd ever shown up in Alabama. Funny that the media never looked that close there, either.

The difference with Obama is that he admitted his problem. It's there in print, nothing to hide, right?

Then again: the media also don't seem to have devoted as much space to Bristol's sex life as they did to John Edwards', & he's not even running, either. None of it really makes sense. Too bad there aren't any issues in this election season. Nothing important for the candidates to debate.

Posted By: Ridge Runner  on Monday, September 08, 2008

"Then again: the media also don't seem to have devoted as much space to Bristol's sex life as they did to John Edwards', & he's not even running, either."



The non-Equirer media studiously avoided Edwards' adultery scandal until he was no longer in the running, but only up for consideration as a member of Obama's cabinet. This resulted in the DNC planners dumping him from the  speaker list and replacing him with ...  Bill Clinton (!?!?!?). Incredibly funny when you think about it.

Posted By: geoff  on Thursday, September 11, 2008

Ridge Runner: it will be interesting to see how the "non-Enquirer" media studiously avoid Palin's adultery scandal, Bristols' pretty wild sex life, Track's drug abuse...

Darn that liberal MSM.

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