MSNBC'S Brzezinski Breaks Cover, Says Media's Palin Hatred 'Rabid'
By Mike Sargent (Bio | Archive)
This morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough broke the news that – are you sitting down? – the media are biased against Sarah Palin.
The comic potential for this revelation is nearly unlimited.
The Morning Joe Brew Crew provided some very interesting insight, however. Scarborough led Brzezinski into talking about the insider's view of the main-stream media attitude toward Palin after her introduction as the Republican VP candidate:
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Mika, you defended Sarah Palin when she first came out because you saw the press respond so negatively to her but you noticed over the past several months a really, really negative reaction to you defending Sarah Palin.
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BRZEZINSKI: I'm telling you that when she came out on the scene I was– thought it was refreshing. I thought it was exciting. I thought it was interesting. And I also saw a lot of people behind the scenes looking for ways to find a way to bring her down because of her ideology. And I was excited by her ideology because I thought, wow, a very interesting, forty-something, my generation, working woman with five kids on the national stage could really inject something into this conversation about things like abortion.<<<
So now we have an eyewitness account to the media's attempt to smear Sarah Palin into oblivion.
Color me surprised.
At any rate, what exactly was the attitude of the main-stream press?
>>> BRZEZINSKI: What I hated was, what I saw happening behind the scenes, among my colleagues in the media, where there was this rabidness.<<<
Rabid, you say? Surely that can't be the case– is there anyone to stand up for the media, perhaps a columnist at a well-known newspaper?
>>> PEGGY NOONAN: Yes.
SCARBOROUGH: But before –
NOONAN: From the get-go.
SCARBOROUGH: Before they knew who she was.
NOONAN: Absolutely, they looked at her and they didn't like her– it was unjust.<<<
Perhaps not. Noonan goes on to explain:
>>> NOONAN: Yeah, they– Palin from the moment she came out, people looked at her kids and sort of went after the kids. It was vicious. It was offensive. It made me use in a column a word I wouldn't normally use, rhymes with witch, talking about the people in the media who had just decided to gun for these kids. I mean, it was just awful.
There are things during this segment that come down rather hard on Palin – Noonan calls her "frazzled and over-responsive and– yammery," for example. That is hardly as shocking, however, as an open admission from a member of the mainstream media that they were, in fact, "rabid" in their bias against Sarah Palin during the campaign.
One wonders which of the media members were especially rabid.
MSNBC'S Brzezinski Breaks Cover, Says Media's Palin Hatred 'Rabid' | NewsBusters.org (12 June 2009)
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