The NY Slimes finds the Palin family fascinating, in ways that they did not find John Edwards interesting. Glenn Reynolds jokes that the one way they could have kept the Palin daughter's pregnancy out of the new is to suggest that John Edwards was the father.
First the Slimes writes a story about Palin's vetting.
Palin Disclosures Raise Questions on Vetting
The paper FOUR reporters on this tale: Kate Zernike, Jim Rutenberg and Peter Baker in St. Paul, and Serge F. Kovaleski in Juneau, Alaska. And what did they come up with? A big fat zero. They were not able to get anyone who had been involved to comment. The only quotes were from people who had not been involved in the process. It's really an amazing story about.... nothing. All to try to make the case, by innuendo, that McCain didn't check her out well enough.
Jodi Kantor and Rachel Swarns writes another tale:
A New Twist in the Debate on Mothers
This has to be a first for the NY Slimes; questioning whether women with children belong in the workplace.
Finally we have Adam Nagourny in a thumbsucker
In Political Realm, ‘Family Problem’ Emerges as Test
In it Nagourney makes it seem as if an unmarried, pregnant daughter is a big deal. He seems to believe the image that the Liberals have of Conservatives as blue noses who hate sex. His ideas of what Conservatives are like is taken straight from “The Scarlet letter.” To Nagourney, the Conservative mind is unexplored territory which explains the ridiculous way they are treating the revelations about Governor Palin’s family.
Having read his “news analysis” I have to conclude that he must be paid a lot of money, impelling the editors at the Slimes to decide to print everything he writes. This one is something you can read, but only as an example of using lots of white space to say exactly nothing.
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