Gotcha Journalism

John McCain and Sarah Palin must have put the squeeze on CBS News yesterday...because they were back front and center, in front of Katie Curick, making their case against (you guessed it) the liberal media. You see, it's the media's fault that Palin has become a laughing stock. It's not because she is an ill informed, unprepared, unequipped, right wing zealot and parvenu...it's because the big, bad liberal media makes fun of her that the world is crumbling all around us. That is sexism at its finest: rush to defend a woman from having to answer legitimate questions about her experience, policies and knowledge...because it makes her look bad. Sorry, if Palin can't stand the political heat, she should get back IN the kitchen. It's not "Gotcha Journalism" when they actually get you at something. That's called responsible journalism. Too bad we didn't have more of it in the run up to the invasion of Iraq.

And as for Democrats being responsible for this economic crisis? HA! You can trace it back to that lion of the Republican party, Ron Reagan. Was it not Ronnie who bailed out savings and loans (amid scandal)? Was it not Reagan caught up in a HUD scandal? A lobbyist scandal as well? Was it not McCain and his pro-business lobbyist cronies who pressed for so much deregulation that the government was ill prepared to deal with this disaster? Was it not Bush who appointed cronies and party loyalists instead of qualified individuals to sensitive posts? The Democrats indeed! Pelosi was 100% right to call out Bush and his administration for the last eight years of failure. If we don't condemn our past, we are doomed to repeat it.