Greg Mitchell: Yes, the Media Helped Elect Obama, But...

Move over Joe Wurzlebacher, if we get real lucky it will be Palin / Limbaugh in 2012 or Limbaugh / Palin in 2012, with Bristol Palin as Head of Abstinence Policy, and First Dude as, well, First Dude.



Greg Mitchell: Yes, the Media Helped Elect Obama, But...: "So the preposterous media coverage of the (few) unhappy Hillary-ites at the Dem convention - which was aimed not at helping Obama but maintaining interest in the affair and the coming campaign - inspired McCain to select as his running mate someone who would virtually destroy his campaign (as I make clear in my new book on the campaign).
Recall that after months of trailing, McCain came out of his convention with a bump that led to at least a tie with Obama in the polls -- then he plummeted very quickly as the truth about Palin seeped out. A week after the GOP convention ended, polls were already showing (as many of us, if not most MSM pundits, had predicted) that , if anything, women thought LESS of Palin than did men."