Posted by
Mike Bates on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4:21:24 PM
Yesterday on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews,
Ryan Lizza, Washington correspondent for The New Yorker magazine, was a
guest. The topic turned to Republican vice presidential candidate
Sarah Palin:
LIZZA: Right, there are people who have views on
abortion but they don’t vote on the abortion issue, right. Can I just
say one thing on what you just asked Perry about? To me, this is the
elephant in the room about Sarah Palin. I think there is a little
reluctance from folks in the press to just say what is on everyone’s
mind. That is do people feel comfortable with this woman serving as
president at a time when we’re at war in two countries, when she’s been
mayor of Alaska, one of the smallest state in America by population?
MATTHEWS: Has made one trip overseas in her life.
LIZZA: I think a lot of the press corps is a little bit reluctant
to go there and to be honest about that, because, frankly, the McCain
campaign has been very good at pushing back and working the refs on
this issue.
There's a little reluctance from folks in the press to just say what
is on everyone’s mind? Sure there is. That's why, as pointed out by
Brad Wilmouth on NewsBusters, Newsweek's Howard Fineman claims that "Sarah Palin makes Barack Obama look like John Adams." And the New York Times's Maureen Dowd whined that Palin "has never even been on 'Meet the Press.'" Over at the Washington Post's PostGlobal, "a conversation on global issues with David Ignatius and Fareed Zakaria," an opinion piece on Palin today begins:
The selection of another incurious, ill-schooled
politician with no foreign policy judgment and a simplistic "the
military can solve everything" view of foreign policy will continue the
dramatic slide of the U.S.'s global influence. It will also dig us much
deeper into a foreign policy hole that has already brought us to an
international situation more dangerous than the darkest days of the
Cold War.
I have little reluctance in pointing out that Lizza is profoundly
wrong, and anyone paying the least bit of attention must realize
that.