I sent this in an email to a friend in Virginia this morning:
Something’s happened. Compare the past two days’ coverage with last weekend’s.
We have the Washington Post saying Palin did, indeed, buck three oil companies to get the pipeline built.
We have Sally Quinn saying, well, maybe I was a bit hasty about criticizing Sarah Palin.
Mika Brzezinski says liberal elites have acted horrendously toward Palin.
We have Andrea Mitchell suddenly saying, well, maybe she is a really good politician and a good veep pick.
Are these media folks just trying to desert a sinking ship and get behind a winner? Or are they just terrified at what the polls have showed them the American people think about their behavior?
While I may have recognized a true phenomenon, I may have analyzed it too benignly. Ace is suspicious:
We’ve now seen the NYT print a “We Love Baby Trig” article (by the way, I was trying to let you guys know to not worry about that with the whole “Media gets its marching orders” post), Andrew Sullivan has suddenly announced he’s as proud as a beagle for Sarah Palin’s decision to “bring up” Trig, and now the DKos is systematically deleting one of the sillier smears in a week where “one of the sillier smears” is genuinely a mark of distinction.
Is this all purely coincidentally? The smears seemed pretty coordinated, and now so does the walking-back of the smearing.
Are we really to believe Obama’s most stalwart allies all decided it was politically unhelpful to keep smearing Palin and her family not only independently, but simultaneously?
