I’m not a big Palin fan, however, what does keep my interest in Palin alive is how she was treated by the MSM. Yes, I believe Palin brought some of that on herself, still
Sarah Palin was the victim of the most vicious, global, and organized campaign ever carried out against a modern politician. It might have begun spontaneously, as the standard mud-flinging attendant to any political campaign. (Yeah, I know – liberals don’t actually do that, they sit around on chaise longues wearing togas discussing policy in Socratic dialogue. I’m just being a throwback.) But it soon expanded well beyond the customary level of heated campaign rhetoric to fill every last niche of the media sphere, a process that could not have occurred without manipulation at every last turn.
The anti-Palin campaign was intended to implant myths so complex, so convoluted, and so widespread that they could never be completely countered. The American left has developed the art of slander to a degree never previously achieved. It’s one thing they’re good at. Not even the most acid-tongued gossips of the Bourbon court at Versailles were quite the match of contemporary left-wing political operatives.
I think the author of the above words goes too easy on Democrats. The hateful campaign against Palin started the moment she was named the VP pick, and blogger Andrew Sullivan, now part of the Obama approved media, led the way with his “Trig-trutherism” nonsense, and it never let up for one moment. That makes Palin a source of interest for me. On the other hand, I don’t like the fact that she resigned her Governorship.