Seriously. Leave it to the Globe-Democrat - kid sister of Pinch's crumbling media, erm, fiefdom - to plumb depths not yet plumbed in their "coverage" of the election.
Let's just start with the title...
Unfit to stand so close to presidency
Ironic, coming from a apostlesupporter of St. Barack of the Community Organizers, eh?
TODAY, on the anniversary of the horror of Sept. 11, 2001, we should recall what happens when an unqualified candidate captures the presidency.
Again, from an Obama supporter? Oh please, let us do recall what happens in such sad circumstances.
An incurious western governor, George W. Bush, arrived in Washington unprepared for the job. And it showed every day of his presidency.
Uh, sure. Wouldn't be a Boston Globe-Democrat piece unless there was at least one worn-out MoveOn Talking Point ("incurious") in the lead graph. As for the rest - well, opinions being like a$$-holes I'll leave Mr. Payne's smelly turds alone to rot in the sun.
Let me skip a bit, not for lack of fisking material mind you - but just to save some bandwidth...
Sarah Palin is Clarence Thomas, completely unqualified but cynically chosen for being a member of a demographic group that usually votes Democratic. No wonder so many women are insulted by the choice.
Again, this is an Obama supporter saying these things - I suppose with a straight, if sneering, face. Liberals - irony challenged to the point of hilarity.
Oh, and as to "No wonder so many women are insulted by the choice"? Oh yeah, and their showing their level of outrage by, erm, sprinting to the McCain-Palin ticket as fast as they can.
So what is it, Mr. Payne? Are you really that stupid or merely sloppy?
I suppose I'll let him answer that question himself...
Will Hillary voters buy Palin's extreme antiabortion stance that allows no exceptions, not even for incest or rape; her belief in "market- and business-driven healthcare"; her support for teaching creationism in public schools; her rejection of global warming as man-made?
Let me just point y'all here for a wonderful debunking of this chunk (and the next 3-4 graphs) of Mr. Payne's almost entirely fact-free piece.
Troopergate, the iceberg cometh. Dead ahead, Palin is facing a report from a special prosecutor chosen unanimously by the Alaska Legislature.
Hey genius? You might want to read this gem from our good buddy Art. Until then - I suppose you could "KEEP! HOPE!! ... ALIVE!!!" that TrooperGageTM will actually, you know, come to anything. Or not. I really couldn't care less.
Oh, let's just skip to the finale...
(Palin)'s a hard-right, small-town operator who tapped into the corrupt Ted Stevens money pipeline in Washington. She knows how to use Alaska's gun-toting cowboy image to her advantage. She's got a Taliban-like tolerance for beliefs unlike her own.
1) Talking point debunked at Graham's piece
2) It's not an image, sweet-cakes - and were I you I'd be watching my back if you hear a "ka-click", if you know what I mean. We all know that when Sarah Palin shoots something it, well, stays shot
3) Given this fact-free screed appearing in an also-ran of a newspaper I would be somewhat careful about tossing around phrases like "Taliban-like tolerance for beliefs unlike her own" - but then we're up against the "irony challenged" issue again, aren't we.
To the extent he thought about it at all, McCain (an ex-POW) picked her to fix his problems with GOP evangelicals and juice the ticket. That's a lousy reason to let someone so completely unfit stand so close to the presidency.
Once again - from an Obama supporter.
Do these people even read what it is they write?
Oh, here's the best part...
Dan Payne is a Boston-area media consultant who has worked for Democratic candidates around the country. He does political analysis for WBUR radio.
So this three-time loser is a Democrat "media consultant" - meaning that he lies about Republican pols for a living - who does "political analysis" for the local - drumroll please - public radio station.
In other words, you guessed it, your tax dollars at work.
Well, he obviously can't do and probably can't teach, so I guess all that's left is to suck-off the public teat - and write screeds for the Boston Globe-Democrat, with their layers of fact checkers, of course.
