luciazephyr | (no subject)

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The balls the NYT has.

Their front page story is here, eviscerating Palin's history.

It's absolutely awesome. I was thinking of giving ya'll highlights, but it's short and worth reading. Quite a few new facts and an interesting look into her process. She's certainly efficient, I'll give her that.

-Luce

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Short? It's five pages long! [continues reading w/ carnal enthusiasm]

OK, now I'm wondering: what if the McCain campaign really did vet Palin properly? What if this really is the person they want running the country if McCain dies during office? WTF!?

Huh. I didn't realize. :goes to read two through five:

This is a really good article, but the McCain campaign is going to charge it as a hit piece and that claim will be repeated by a majority of the media, as in, "The New York Times wrote an article about Palin that the McCain camp claimed as a hit piece," and never even discuss the content of the article.

You know the situation is bad when the paper of record is so easily dismissed as partisan.

I mean, we're going to cover the content of the article. I can just see the rest of the media jumping on the inevitable conflict between the Times and the McCain campaign as a better story than some scrapping between council members in Wasilla, Alaska.

It's not like this shit is ancient history tho. Two, three years ago, she was mayor. Any info about that time is extremely related. I mean, this is not McCain changing a position from five or ten years ago. Her record from Wasilla is pretty much all we got.

And, rawr, rape kits, rawr. :beats that horse until it's dead:

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