But that's not the point. The point is that the mainstream media will go out of their way to make Palin look bad.
Yes he was. She didn't ignore him, there was nothing she could say that wouldn't dig a deeper hole. I thought she made the best of the situation by just taking the punch and moving on. She got a few good jabs in as well.
They will go out of their way to get a story about anybody. If poor Sarah can't handle the kitchen heat at this level, then she's in over her head.
They hit harder than that, Kid. Obama's patriotism has been questioned by the media because of comments his wife made in college. He's been asked if he was racist because of comments his former pastor once said. His faith has been questioned because of his middle name, for heaven's sake. Talk about cheap shots.
no they asked if he was racist because his pastor (at the time) is/was. rev wright is racist and spewed racist, anti-american, hate mongering speech from his bully pulpit weekly while allegedly obama sat smiling with the wife & kids. he either agreed with rev. & his views (firstly) or disagreed (when it became politically expedient). of course those questions make it okay to send news crews to interview former hanoi hilton interrorgators and ask them if mccain really was treated as badly as he said he was.
The funding bill Biden referred to also included a deadline for troop withdrawal. That's what McCain voted against, and rightfully so. Once that crap was taken out McCain readily voted for funding troops. Palin never made an issue of it. She shrugged it off. I'm making an issue of it.
"An analysis carried out by a language monitoring service said Friday that Gov. Sarah Palin spoke at a more than ninth-grade level and Sen. Joseph Biden spoke at a nearly eighth-grade level " this doesnt sound so bad after the article mentions that lincoln spoke at an 11th grade level in a debate. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/03/debate.words/?iref=mpstoryview
It's known among political and technical writers and editors that material intended for a general audience should be written at the 8th/9th grade level. To reach the largest audience in America with a message that they can comprehend, that is the target language level. This shows that both candidates have smart writers. Both candidates may be more erudite and eloquent than the material that their editors/campaign managers want to see in the press. Many scientific papers (and detailed political agendas) are written at levels that only a narrow range of professional experts in the field completely understand and are mostly found in technical journals. They have to be edited down to a college-level comprehension level for publishing in the general scientific media (Science, Nature). They are edited again to a junior-high level if published in the popular media (Times, Newsweek).
