Shielding Palin

Mr. Rutten's comments are right on. The Karl Rove/Republican handlers of Palin do NOT want her appear in hard-hitting interview, i.e. Meet the Press or Face the Nation. Then again, who's to say they won't put on the kid gloves. NBC has already slapped MSNBCs wrist for so-called biased coverage. But that's GE talking. If Palin is the pit-bull she says she is, her handlers should let her loose. But they do fear her maniacal evangelical outpouring. She was put on Nightline. But they had "Good Morning America" Charlie Gibson, the affable moron who asked Obama why he didn't wear a American flag pin. Gibson belongs on Entertainment Tonight.

DaveT @ 3:05 PM PDT, Sep 12, 2008

"Can you imagine what the media reaction would be if a comparable lipstick-on-a-pig comment had been directed at Hillary?" The comment was not directed at Pallin.. its directed at McCain and the Repulbican party, the pigs who are using Pallin to try to make themselves look more moderate (with a woman) while not losing fundamentalist support. Pallin was choose by demographics, not qualifications. If she's qualified to be VP, then so is just about everybody who reads the newspaper.

dss @ 1:51 PM PDT, Sep 12, 2008

Mr. Rutten, could you please show a little more bias in your next article.

Erick @ 1:34 PM PDT, Sep 12, 2008

It is truly amazing how many individuals are scrambling to try and find incriminating "dittys" on Palin. No one's life is devoid of details that can't be spun to look "alarming". On any given day, all people associate and find themselves interdependently connected to people whose views and stances on a variety of hot issues are not shared. Does that proximity disqualify people from their own beliefs? ABSOLUTLEY NOT! It is a truly fascinating reality that so many are calling for bi-partisan public figures and then fault them if they find themselves in the company of people who don't share their belief.

jonathan @ 12:33 PM PDT, Sep 12, 2008

When ignorance and blind faith or more important than substance and knowledge we have only ourselves to blame for the dire consequinces to come. I don't think the polls will change when Palin shows herself to be a religious nut job. If anything the blind will become blinder and the fearful more vengeful.

rudy @ 12:29 PM PDT, Sep 12, 2008

Thank you Tim for this column. The overall hypocrisy and cynicism of the McCain campaign is mindboggling. Their attack ads on Obama's celebrity comparing him to Paris and Britney and now we have Sarah Palin on the cover of the supermarket tabloids. They will do everything in their power to bash and blame the media even though the media has an obligation to the American people to inform us whether they like what they read or not.

tahoesky @ 10:44 AM PDT, Sep 12, 2008

So Palin thinks war with Russia is the answer. So were supposed to goad Russia into war by accepting Georgia into NATO. This woman's a fricken bellicose lunatic. People like her because she's perky! Because she's a mother! So fricken what? She's not qualified to be president. It seems like white people (and I'm caucasian) have lost their minds in Middle America.

Jon K. @ 9:01 AM PDT, Sep 12, 2008

Tim Rutten is just another FAWNING LIBERAL who wouldn't DREAM OF QUESTIONING his royal highness Obama in with the same MEAN-SPIRITED deameanor that Charles gibson used on Gov. Palin. No one in the news media has asked Obama what exactly is a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER and how does that qualify one to be POTUS. Rutten and Gibson don't have the guts to even think of asking a question like that of the exalted one. Further, how does Obama's three short years in the Senate (of which he has spent two year campaining) qualify him for the highest office in the land. Nothing Obama has done qualifies him to be an Assistant Public Defender in night court.

Drive By Media victim @ 7:59 AM PDT, Sep 12, 2008

I think Palin has come across very well every time I have seen her or heard her. The Palin that has been reported about on blogs and my commentators sounds like a nut. It makes me wonder how much of what I read is true. It's like Hillary -- everybody hated her b/c of what others said about her. But when, after she lost, we actually heard what SHE had to say, and saw what she was really all about - we realized that we had blown it by not picking her. I hope we are not making the same mistake again by unfairly characterizing a female candidate.

Nancy @ 7:08 AM PDT, Sep 12, 2008

I know you probably don't care, but... Both she and McCain look to be two scary nut jobs viewed here from outside of the USA. No different to the Taliban in it's absolute beileifs, in it's own twisted distorted version of Christianity.

fred @ 4:20 AM PDT, Sep 12, 2008

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