Recommended Reading

Matt Taibbi on the way the media treats Sarah Palin…and also the way Sarah Palin treats the media. I don't disagree with anything he writes but I think he's not giving enough weight to this: Most people who aren't smitten with her approach her every media appearance with an attitude of "Well, let's see what stupid thing she's going to say this time." That's not a Democratic/Republican thing. An awful lot of folks do that with Joe Biden, too. It's just that in the past, the gaffes have been the story. And the part that wasn't about her clumsiness with facts was all about her tabloidesque family problems. She hasn't given the media much of anything else to write about.