The GOP would like to ignore Palin, but they can't. Oddly enough, the Democrats seem to understand a little better how much of a threat she is.
"So Sarah Palin is now in that category of politician
whom reporters feel safe in attacking.
"Some of this is definitely her own fault.... Hillary's
campaign had the same problem, particularly after
Iowa, [Hillary's] press handlers...openly treated
the trail reporters like a swarm of venomous insects....
Once the politician-reporter relationship reaches that
level, that candidacy is going to be in serious trouble.
"Obama’s press people, meanwhile, behaved like a
team of well-trained Starbuck’s baristas: quiet,
accommodating, nonconfrontational. Then again, the
reporters mostly all worshipped [Obama], so they
didn’t have any reason to behave otherwise. That part
of the media-conspiracy narrative is definitely true.
"I remember one particular trip when Obama came
back to our part of the plane wearing jeans and a
white button-down shirt and there was audible chirping
from several female reporters. ...getting photographed
with Obama was like a rite of passage.... Needless
to say nothing like that went on in the Hillary press
corps, or more especially in the McCain plane....
-- Matt Taibbi
Read it all, here.
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