Carl M. Cannon at Inside Politics Daily has written an extensive article on media malfeasance during the 2008 election. Included in this article is a bit of the history of ‘journalism’ in the U.S. in relation to politics. Get past the first couple paragraphs and the story of the disservice the media played to Americans is exhibited time after time.

The continual attacks on Sarah Palin with lies and distortions by the networks, cable and print was a coordinated assault orchestrated by the Democrats which showed the media to be in the pocket of the Democrat machine.

This assertion by Cannon was interesting:

That this might pose a problem never dawned on the men and women who controlled the media – even as it drove their right-of-center readers and viewers away in droves. When I tell my friends working in places like The New York Times that they created Rush Limbaugh, they respond with shock and disbelief. But it’s obvious to me that it’s true, even as the anointed sages of the Old Media solemnly denied that an animal such as “liberal bias” existed at all. It’s like that scene in the fire swamp in “The Princess Bride” when Buttercup expresses fear of “R.O.U.Ses.” Replies our hero Wesley: “Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don’t think they exist” – just as one is about to chomp his arm off.

One particular assault I had not known about:

The most egregious example was posted on Daily Kos on Sept. 12, 2008 by Paul Lewis Hackett III, a trial lawyer and U.S. Marine Corps veteran of Iraq, who ran in 2005 for a vacant seat in the House from Ohio’s second congressional district, losing narrowly in a district President Bush had carried easily just a year earlier.

Fretting that the Obama campaign was going to lose Ohio to McCain, Hackett proposed his own solution: A series of savage attacks on the GOP ticket focusing on Sarah Palin and her family. Here is what he wrote:

The message (would be) simple and the professionals can refine it but essentially it should contain these elements: Sarah Palin? Can’t keep her solemn oath of devotion to her husband and had sex with his employee. Sarah Palin? Accidentally got pregnant at age 43 and the tax payers of Alaska have to pay for the care of her disabled child. Sarah Palin? Unable to teach her 16 year old daughter right from wrong and now another teenager is pregnant. Sarah Palin? Can you trust Sarah Palin and her values with America’s future?

Apparently, Hackett took the rumors of an affair from the National Enquirer, which offered no proof, or even evidence. He then segued into an even uglier line of attack, arguing that it’s irresponsible to bring a handicapped baby into the world. This is not “pro-choice,” it’s pro-eugenics. It’s also creepy and illiberal, and reinforces conservatives’ worst fears about Democrats and the issue of abortion. And, oh yes, Bristol Palin’s age was wrong. She was nearly 18 when Hackett wrote this screed, not 16. This proved a harbinger, too, as misinformation slipped easily from the left blogosphere into mainstream coverage.

Cannon goes on to list many of the lies and distortions promoted by the media throughout the campaign and after. The fear and loathing of Sarah Palin by these so called ‘journalists’ and professional media types is alive and well today.

Sarah ‘Barracuda’ Palin and the Piranhas of the Press

The only conclusion one can reach is that the Democrats and Media are very afraid of Sarah Palin’s appeal to those who live in ‘flyover’ country. Thus their psychotic need to destroy the woman and her family at their own peril and demise.

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