Sarah Palin knew it was going to be tough-going with press criticism, but who knew it would be this outrageously deceitful. Check out the above video from CNN (about 1:30 in), in which Drew Griffin sandbags Palin with an inaccurate statement. He misquotes an article from the conservative National Review, claiming that the author Byron York called her "incompetent, stupid, unqualified, corrupt."
The only problem was that York was defending Palin against a hostile press, who presents her in this fashion. His direct quote from the article is here:
Watching press coverage of the Republican candidate for vice president, it’s sometimes hard to decide whether Sarah Palin is incompetent, stupid, unqualified, corrupt, backward, or — or, well, all of the above. Palin, the governor of Alaska, has faced more criticism than any vice-presidential candidate since 1988, when Democrats and the press tore into Dan Quayle.
CNN was unapologetic in its distortion.
Orson Scott Card is a Democrat and a newspaper columnist, and in this opinion piece he takes on the hostile bias in the press and the state of journalism today.
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