Savaging Sarah Palin
By Brent Bozell
September 3, 2008
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Then came the media's heavy rush to cover the news that Palin's 17-year-old daughter Bristol was pregnant, and would keep the baby and marry the father. Once again, ABC led the media insult machine. They called the baby a "skeleton in the closet," a strange term for an unborn child, a "bombshell" cynically timed to explode on the day Hurricane Gustav swept ashore. The story emerged in reaction to the left-wing blogsite Daily Kos circulating the incredibly disgusting and wholly inaccurate smear that Gov. Palin somehow faked her latest pregnancy to cover for her daughter's supposed motherhood of her disabled son.
ABC and CNN also used the Bristol news to lecture the Republicans about their hypocrisy on sex education in high schools, wildly presuming Gov. Palin's daughter didn't know how babies were made. The agenda seemed clear: Keep Palin constantly under attack, and suggest perhaps McCain should just dump her and go find someone else ...for the media to brutalize.
John McCain made a bold choice in not merely picking a woman, but picking a pro-life woman courageous enough to put her motherhood where her mouth is. Now the media want him to pay dearly for it. The idea that they would lecture anyone else about rumor-mongering or "Swift-boating" ought to be laughed off the public stage.
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L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center.
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