Wanting to Believe the Worst About Sarah Palin
In what can be considered a sign that some members of the mainstream media want to believe everything bad about Governor Sarah Palin, regardless of the idiocy of the accusation, MSNBC and The New Republic, among others, took a satirical post published at a blog yesterday serious.
In the post, Marty Eisenstadt presents himself as a former McCain staffer who admits leaking the Africa and NAFTA rumors to the media. He says he is the founder of the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy, which should be a give-away considering that Hardin was one of the worst presidents in history.
So Eisenstadt says, he is the leaker. But, there is more, he says: she did not know the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas. She also did not know what the difference between Sunnis and Shiites was. Then there were ETA and the IRA: Palin, Eisenstadt, wrote, did not know which terrorist organization operated in Spain and which one in Ireland.
MSNBC picked it up, using the post for a segment of “breaking news.” Yet more ‘news’ that would make Palin look bad! The joy.
One problem: if they would have done one google search, they would have known that Eisenstadt should not be taken serious.
But, they would rather believe all bad stories and rumors about Palin than do some research.
Journalism has died.
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