Or so Fox News now seemingly suggests.
What truly is stunning is how in recent years partisans will jump through all kinds of mental hoops to try and excuse things that people on their side do that they berated others on the other side for doing. You could say “mind-boggling” but now this is the norm. Outrage and ridicule is only directed at those who you seek to politically defeat, but you look the other way or play defense attorney if your own side does it. As noted in another post, both sides are off base on this “issue.” Both Obama and Palin can speak without using teleprompters or hand notes. It’s a kind of easy crutch, kind of like Linus with his security blanket, it guarentees order to the speech or discussion — but no one wants to pass up a change to blow something way out of proportion if it can denigrate someone of the other party.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.