Wow, Brian Williams just read the whole Joe Kline bit!

[apnu]

Damn!

[Buck Rabbit]

1. A little help here?

I'm old and slow but you hooked me. I want to understand

[Starbucks Anarchist]

2. He read Joe Klein's list of Palin's scandals.

Troopergate, book banning, etc.

[Buck Rabbit]

5. Thanks! and that is worth a "DAMN!"

[eleny]

7. Maybe it was a little bit of Jon Stewart rubbing off

He was just on TDS last night. :D

[Undercurrent]

6. .

It was the Joe Kelin article where he urged hi fellow journalists NOT to back off their investigations of Palin.. And he listed the scandals.

[bettyellen]

8. called MC C's "insidious bullying" of media to not report Palins lies unprofesional and....

" By the evidence presented in the utterly revealing Time interview, he’s ballistic. This is a politician who needs to see himself as the man on the white horse, boldly traversing a muddy field…any intimations that he’s gotten muddied in the process, or has decided to throw mud, are intolerable. The second thing is more insidious: Steve Schmidt has decided, for tactical reasons, to slime the press. He wants the public to believe that there is an unfair–sexist (you gotta love it)–personal assault going on against Palin and her family. This is a smokescreen, intended to divert attention from the fact the very real and responsible vetting that is taking place in the media–about the substance of Palin’s record as mayor and governor. "

[Buck Rabbit]

9. Thanks, I'm so stupid I had read that article and loved it.

I just had a little McCain moment and the name of the author didn't register for me.

[Undercurrent]

3. Good for him!

I was shocked as hell. And he seemed to take Klein's admonition seriously too.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. stunning, yes? I heard it, too. here it is...VERY hard hitting, and the ONLY mention of any of it:

There is a tendency in the media to kick ourselves, cringe and withdraw, when we are criticized. But I hope my colleagues stand strong in this case: it is important for the public to know that Palin raised taxes as governor, supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it, pursued pork-barrel projects as mayor, tried to ban books at the local library and thinks the war in Iraq is "a task from God." The attempts by the McCain campaign to bully us into not reporting such things are not only stupidly aggressive, but unprofessional in the extreme.


http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/angry_amateurs.html