The media treatment of Sarah Palin is disgusting and Jonathan Martin and the rest of the Politico team is just as clueless as the rest.
There are no "tough questions" being asked, as Jonathan Martin put it, just smears from the Daily Kos. These smears have been framed as questions by the mainstream media which shows who they now get their marching orders from.
Asking if her Down Syndrome baby is actually hers is not a "tough question". It's a smear.
Asking how she could "subject her daughter to such scrutiny" by accepting the VP nomination, as Campbell Brown did, is not a tough question but a smear.
Asking how she can expect to "juggle" her work with her family is not a tough question but a smear.
asking if she's a "hypocrite" because her abstinence only stance "failed' is not a question, it's yet another smear. (and this stance still isn't clear considering there is evidence she has supported mandatory contraception education)
These smears are phrased as loaded questions and you hear and see this crap all over the media. The media ignored John Edwards until the National Enquirer broke the story, and they ignored Rev. Wright until Fox News broke the story, but they are all over a Down Syndrome baby and a pregnant 17 year old girl. Even Obama himself has denounced these questions considering his own mother was 18 when she had him. Though perhaps there is some nut on his staff encouraging these smears but the media would never look into that.
Joe Bidens son is a shady Lobbyist but not a peep from the media. And who the hell is CNN anchor Campbell Brown to question the parenting of Sarah Palin because she accepted the VP job? It is vultures like Brown and the rest of the media who are making Bristol a national issue, not Sarah.
Why is no media reporter asking Obama how he or his full time employed wife expect to juggle their two young children with the Presidency? What about Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and her 5 children?
How is Sarah Palin a hypocrite? She's not the one who got pregnant, she stuck to her pro life values and she is giving her daughter her full support, as are social conservatives everywhere. It is the media who are the hypocrites here, or maybe their goal is to shame young unmarried pregnant girls into having abortions?
The media coverage, Politicos own coverage and the comments from all these leftist keyboard warriors is truly sickening. There are plenty of questions to be asked about Sarah Palin, but lay off the kid. You're just using her as an excuse to attack a value system and a candidate you don't agree with.
Objectivity is dead.