…they would find material enough for 9,000 words instead of the 3,000 words they dedicated on the front page to Sarah Palin.
Jennifer Rubin finds very little substance to the Times allegations. I for one am underwhelmed by how the journalistic quality of the NYT and The Anchorage Daily News manifests itself by comparing her to Mary Poppins:
“She was fresh, and she was tomorrow,” said Michael Carey, a former editorial page editor for The Anchorage Daily News. “She just floated along like Mary Poppins.”
Yes, ladies and gentlemen: We’re well into the 21st century and a woman governor still gets to be compared to a fictional nanny.
Double standard, anyone?
Mark Hemingway finds
… the whole thing is just appalling. The New York Times hasn’t begun to investigate Obama’s deeply problematic background, nor have they run anything about him that has such an obvious and cringe inducing negative slant. Alas, it’s just par for the course at the Times.
Never mind that if the Times wanted to seriously investigate corrupt and damaging politics, they could have taken the train to Trenton.
Gerard Vanderleun chops, dices and slices photographer Jill Greenberg in his post Out-Takes: The Atlantic Monthly Finances Vile Anti-McCain Propaganda:
These images are, to any reasonably decent person, simply political pornography. There’s just no other way to parse them.
And he’s just getting started. Go read it all.
(h/t Larwyn)
UPDATE
Fausta {hearts} Ace.
This week’s WSJ’s Five Best reference books, selected by Donald Altschiller:
This week’s shoes, something for Mary Poppins…
Never mind that if the Times wanted to seriously investigate corrupt and damaging politics, they could have taken the train to Trenton.
No train all the way to Trenton required… all they need is the PATH to Hoboken.
What no Clymer’s Shop Manuals, no Hemming’s, no Farmer’s Alamanack and lastly and most shocking in regard to the daintiness of modern American society, not one single book by Bill James. And if you have to Google him then I rest my case!