WaPo media critic Howie Kurtz says some journalists admit they’re self-censoring their coverage of Republican vice presidential nominee’s flailing incompetence, lest they be perceived as “piling on”:

Isn’t this exactly what Pat Buchanan and the GOP complain about what is wrong with racial quotas to get into school? That people who are not qualified get to go to good schools and get good jobs.
Why Pat never complains about Legacies which are quotas for rich people proves that he is a paid hack.

While some journalists say privately they are censoring their comments about Palin to avoid looking like they’re piling on, pundits on the right are jumping ship. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough says Palin “just seems out of her league.” National Review Editor Rich Lowry called her performance “dreadful.” Dallas Morning News columnist Rod Dreher described the interview as a “train wreck.” Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker urged Palin to quit the race, saying: “If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.”

Righty talking heads all get their talking points from the same source they never have independent thoughts my guess is Karl gave the order.
The religious wing of the GOP who Palin represents has just been played. They are being set up to take part of the blame for McCain’s defeat in November. The sad thing is the religious wing of the GOP has been getting played since Reagen in the 80’s.
Its now 2008 and the religious wing of the GOP instead of getting abortion banned is now seeing America debate gay marriage. Despite the GOP having had control of the Presidency since the 80’s with the exception of Bill’s term.
The GOP has had control of the House, Senate and the Supreme Court often during the last few decades but the religious wing of the GOP never asks if they are being taken for granted.

Just like how the media gave Bush a bye for all his verbal screw-ups. You have to be kind to the idiots…but not when they are running for leadership positions. Once again, the MSN is failing to do its job.

May the first amendment live long and free in the blogosphere!!!

Shhh, TCU. It’s elitist to point out when the religious right gets suckered, dontch’a know?

Sarah did not know that her chief of police in her small town was charging the victims for rape exams? Yeah Right in small towns everybody knows each others business and there is noway a story like that does not get talked about, SARAH IS LYING!
Also was there any evidence that rape exams were not done because of an in ability of the victim to pay? If so I want the police chief and Sarah behind bars!

Elitist? Me COOL my Family will be so proud 3 generations here and we have not only arrived we, well me is now being accused of being Elite, despite being on the brown side.
I would like to thank my Parents who encouraged me to read, My Teachers, the Public School System etc for making this possible:)

Slightly OT - There are many who are very upset with Brokaw for his biases in his Sunday edition of Face the Nation and are now circulating a petition to have him removed as moderator for the debate:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com.....-moderator

OT
DOW: -738.42 (-6.63%)

I guess McCain’s appearance in Washington DC didn’t do much at all

More Palin coming. Get the popcorn ready.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talk.....of_cou.php

I just hope this economic crisis doesn’t give Bush Inc. the excuse they need to implement Martial Law as per the rules laid out in his executive order a while back.

Right now only “intellectual” conservatives are speaking out against Palin. They are being discounted by the mainstream conservatives.

I expect Palin to hold her own during the debate (her debates in Alaska are available on the net), and then the McCain camp will keep her away from microphones until after election day.

With all the voter suppresion tactics that the republicans are using (plus the emails & blogs still saying that Obama is a Muslim) I expect a President Palin before 2012.

Volunteer. Donate. Vote.

The GOP has had control of the House, Senate and the Supreme Court often during the last few decades but the religious wing of the GOP never asks if they are being taken for granted.

Actually, there have been a lot of reports during the past couple years that the religious right DID think they’d been played and were feeling disenfranchised as a result. They never warmed to McCain because despite his pandering, he’s not one of them. The Palin nomination seemed to generate some enthusiasm since she IS one of them, however I suspect her popularity with the religious herd might be waning. They may be steeped in ignorance and superstition but still have an inkling that a potential president should have some pertinent experience.

OT - dude that claimed McGramps invented the Blackberry blames Obama for the failure to pass the bailout bill.

Don’t ask - hell, I couldn’t make any sense of it.

oops, wait - now it’s the fault of the Dem congress-persons who wouldn’t vote for the bill because it would have benefited McLame.

And - McLame should get all the credit in the world because, before he swooped into town, there was no way in the world the bill would ever even gotten so far as having a vote taken.

P.S. Shuster blew the silly fucker up.

Boehner was blaming the fact that Republicans didn’t vote for it on Pelosi’s speech.

Fear not! St. McCain is going to cut taxes for himself and his cronies!
That always fixes the economy, right? Oh and he promises to control spending. Stop right there. I know that you’re thinking that Republics always promise to do that but never actually do that. Well, McCain’s differ….did you know he was a POW? Really, he was!

The question is what will they do after McCain looses?

Ian up over at the Mothership with a bailout recommendation

Boehner was blaming the fact that Republicans didn’t vote for it on Pelosi’s speech.

Wasn’t that a lovely whine?

Especially after Boner, hissownself, in between tears, said in *his* speech that this vote would separate the men from the boys, and the girls from the women.

Guess he was right, huh?

I mean, who could have anticipated that mean ole Nancy would give a speech that hurt da widdle feelings of those Repub “men” and “women”?

Friends don’t let friends govern while drunk.

Dow sinks..What about the 401k’s and rightious pensions and portfolios of the minimum wage workers…oh woe is us, he he!

The question is what will they do after McCain loses?

The demagogues that be will set to work stoking the flames of resentment to insure that they DO turn out in 2012.

McCain “pre-recorded” speech congratulating himself for passage of the bailout bill.

Ooops.

Supposedly all these brave new representatives were merely listening to their constituents who don’t want the Wall Street Bailout. Wait until those folks lose their 401k, retirement funds, can’t get their kids college loans, and/or lose a home over this shakeout. Do you think that any of those people who lost money in all this will remember that they thought the bailout was a bad idea? They will blame the House Republicans for their woes. What a bunch of losers.

No one wants to do this bailout of a bunch of Wall Street thieves, but if the entire world has an economic collapse, it will seem as if the bailout was a good idea that should have been tried. I don’t know a lot, but I truly believe that old say, ”Success has a thousand fathers, failure is an orphan.”….or something close to that.

Is this not the saddest indictment of John McCain’s judgement of all? The press has to censor their opinions of his running mate so that they don’t appear to be piling on. That the man chose someone so incredibly ill-equipped and uninformed that the press must cover for her is, indeed, a sad thing. That John McCain is such a thickhead that he would have chosen this woman without finding out if she was up to the job is a disgrace.

To the press: Stop covering for her. You are acting as enablers for a very angry, jerky man who made an awful decision. Grow a pair and tell the American people just what a bad choice this was.

But you don’t understand how the “Mainstream” works kathyinstlouis. If you’re going to be “balanced” you’re going to have to show how Joe Biden is just and stupid and clueless as Caribou Barbie. As that’s simply not possible the “Mainstream” reverts to. . .silence.