Posted by
Mike Bates on Friday, September 05, 2008 5:40:57 PM
Today's Chicago Sun-Times boasts "Is attack dog's bite even worse than her bark?" by columnist Mary Mitchell. The attack dog, of course, is Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. Mitchell writes:
After hearing Palin speak, I'm afraid she's going to take McCain someplace he doesn't really want to go.
During her debut, Palin electrified the Republicans, but she also shook up every registered voter in the 'hood.
Besides mocking the historic breakthrough of Barack Obama emerging
as the Democrats' nominee, Palin was relentless in her use of language
that reinforces divisions among black and white voters -- particularly
pitting small-town people against the rest of us.
Mitchell doesn't provide examples of the governor's relentless use
of divisive language, so we're expected to just accept her assertion.
Moreover, the columnist doesn't mention how the "small-town people
against the rest of us" sentiment may have been initiated. The Washington Post reported on August 30:
Obama spokesman Bill Burton ridiculed her résumé --
echoing the main argument McCain has directed at Obama. Palin is in her
first term as Alaska governor after serving as a council member and
mayor of the small town of Wasilla. "Today, John McCain put the former
mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a
heartbeat away from the presidency," Burton said in the statement.
But now it's Obama loyalist Mitchell who's all upset, even to the point of fright:
It is scary that a woman who hails from a small town in Alaska felt so at home on the national stage being downright mean.
What's truly scary is that uninformed readers may start taking
Mitchell and other Obamatons in the mainstream media seriously. These
folks are already frantic. Can they take another two months of the
truth being told about their hero?