http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/is_trig_at_the_heart_of_medias.html

 

There were basically two things known about Sarah Palin when her name was announced on Aug. 29 and the mediasphere began to shudder and pulsate: She was a recently elected governor and the mother of five children including a handicapped infant. The scorn from the mainstream press and the left-leaning blog world was both intense and instantaneous. Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic immediately began circulating rumors that Trig was not the governor's baby -- that she had engaged in a huge charade to cover up her teen daughter's illegitimate child. The New York Times reported on the front page that Palin had been a member of the Alaska Independence Party. Eleanor Clift of Newsweek described the reaction of most newsrooms to Palin's elevation as "literally laughter." US Weekly rushed out a cover story picturing Palin holding her baby son with the headline "Babies, Lies, & Scandal."

 

And that was just the throat-clearing phase. NBC's Brian Williams wondered whether she could discharge her responsibilities with all those kids. Sally Quinn of the Washington Post asked, "Will she put her country first, or will she put her family first?" Mort Kondracke called her a "wacko right-winger."

 

 

Sarah Palin is no ordinary pro-lifer. She is an attractive, intelligent, ambitious, successful woman who has actually lived her convictions. Told that the baby she was carrying would be handicapped with Down syndrome, she and her husband made the only decision their consciences would permit -- to welcome this child with the same love they would give to any other. That decision is comparatively rare in America. Fully 80 percent of parents who receive a diagnosis of Down syndrome in their unborn children elect to abort. But it's not unusual at all among committed pro-lifers. I have met many in the course of speaking to pro-life audiences. And for every couple that has chosen life for a handicapped child, there are thousands and perhaps millions more who have abjured prenatal testing because under no circumstances would they abort their children. I cannot count the times I've amazed pro-choice people with the news that there are even waiting lists of couples who stand ready to adopt Down syndrome babies.

LBBC - this is a wasted thread. I don't care how much proof one has that the media is biased. This is trash and its an insult to one's intelligence. Its biased. It makes unsubstantiated claims (80% elect to abort). It has no point.

 

You can't grasp at every article that mentions the evils of abortion.

 

Explain the reason you think this is worthy of a thread.

LBBC - this is a wasted thread. I don't care how much proof one has that the media is biased. This is trash and its an insult to one's intelligence. Its biased. It makes unsubstantiated claims (80% elect to abort). It has no point.

 

You can't grasp at every article that mentions the evils of abortion.

 

Explain the reason you think this is worthy of a thread.

 

Present.

It is as worthy of being a tread as the countless other treads that are posted daily.

Present.

 

Zing! :lol: :lol:

LBBC - this is a wasted thread. I don't care how much proof one has that the media is biased. This is trash and its an insult to one's intelligence. Its biased. It makes unsubstantiated claims (80% elect to abort). It has no point.

 

You can't grasp at every article that mentions the evils of abortion.

 

Explain the reason you think this is worthy of a thread.

 

When did you become a mod?

4 responses and no one has given any indication as to the real point of this thread. I guess that confirms my initial thinking.

4 responses and no one has given any indication as to the real point of this thread. I guess that confirms my initial thinking.

 

I'll give it a try.

 

The liberals of this country cannot even to begin to understand how the people in the so-called "fly over" part of our country have the values that they have. They are so wrapped-up in their self absorbed thinking, that anyone whose beliefs are not the same as theirs is a backward, uneducated individual. When someone like Gov. Palin comes along they have to attack, smear and belittle her as to continue to feel superior in their elitist attitudes to uneducated, moralistic indiviluals in fly-over country.

I do think he's an important part of the reaction the media has had to Palin, if only for the fact that he's brought abortion and it's consequences to an election where it doesn't seem to have had a large role to date.

bball...

 

Replace a few words including liberals with conservatives and the paragraph still works. Obama has been attacked, smeared, belittled. Is that okay with you? Conservatives are no saints...

bball...

 

Replace a few words including liberals with conservatives and the paragraph still works. Obama has been attacked, smeared, belittled. Is that okay with you? Conservatives are no saints...

 

You're right but this thread is referring to the media's reaction to Palin, not the democrats. Of course many people would argue there's no difference.

You're right but this thread is referring to the media's reaction to Palin, not the democrats. Of course many people would argue there's no difference.

 

That doesn't make his point less valid.

 

I get so tired of all of the stereotypical labeling and finger pointing.

That doesn't make his point less valid.

 

I get so tired of all of the stereotypical labeling and finger pointing.

 

:thumb:

:thumb:

 

I was okay with TB And G feeling that way, but you giving it a thumb's up that would indicate to me that you likewise are tired of the finger pointing and stereotyping, that's a hoot. :lol::lol::lol:

That doesn't make his point less valid.

 

I get so tired of all of the stereotypical labeling and finger pointing.

 

Hence, the first two words of my post. Again, the thread concerns the media, which should be neutral. Unfortunately we've come to expect it from the two political sides. We shouldn't expect it from the media.