The Relentless Smear Campaign Against Pro-Life Gov. Sarah Palin
Part Two of Two

I began Part One by citing a study from  the Project for Excellence in Journalism which found that media coverage of John McCain has been "more than three times as negative as the portrayal of Barack Obama" since the national conventions. What I didn't mention is that this same study found that overall, "39 percent of the [Gov. Sarah] Palin stories were negative, 28 percent were positive and 33 percent neutral," according to a story in the Washington Post. And you know with complete certainty that the closer we get to November 4, the more uniformly hostile the coverage will become.

I want to thank those of you who wrote me following Wednesday's edition in which I wrote about Gov. Palin's radio interview with pro-life

Dr. James Dobson, founder of "Focus on the Family." Gov. Palin's moxie, her cool under pressure, her utter unflappability while under media siege impresses me more each day.

There is no let up, of course. The election is only 12 days away, and it is essential that the "mainstream media" do all that it can to smear her character and dampen her supporters' enthusiasm. But I must confess when my wife told me about the following, even I was momentarily skeptical it could actually be true.

In a nutshell, Gov. Palin was interviewed by a dolt for CNN by the name of Drew Griffin. Here's the opening part of the exchange. (Thanks to Rush Limbaugh for airing the media's dirty laundry.)

GRIFFIN: The National Review had a story saying that, you know, "I can't tell if Sarah Palin is incompetent, stupid, unqualified, corrupt, or all of the above."

PALIN: Who wrote that one?

GRIFFIN: That -- that was in the National Review.

PALIN: Who wrote it?

GRIFFIN: I don't have the author but they were --

PALIN: Who wrote it? I'd like to talk to that person.

GRIFFIN: But they were…"

But, of course, that wasn't the National Review reporter (Byron York) speaking in his own voice. York was writing an article about Palin's job as governor of Alaska and was referring to media coverage of her. His point was that she'd been a very competent chief executive, but that you'd never know that if you took your cues from a steady stream of ultra-hostile media stories that have run since the day pro-life Sen. John McCain chose her to be his running mate.

Limbaugh went on to make a second point. CNN had falsely reported that the McCain campaign was ceding Colorado to the Obama campaign at the very same time Palin (and her husband, Todd) were drawing enormous crowds in Colorado and had plans to make other campaign states in the Mile High state.

Enough said. Do not, repeat do not, believe anything that you read about how this election is, for all practical purposes, over. It is much closer than commonly reported (an exception is the Associated Press's poll showed the margin at +1 for Obama yesterday) and will get closer as we approach Nov. 4.

Palin talked about circumventing the "media filter." You can help to do so by downloading the presidential comparison sheet at http://www.nrlc.org/Election2008/comparison0909084c.pdf.

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Part One