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September 5, 2008
Comparing speeches so I don't have too.
If one compares Palin’s speech to Obama’s, it appears to me that they used similar amounts of sarcasm (not much), but Obama made considerably more extensive negative comments about McCain and Republican administrations than Palin did about Obama and Democrats. Palin’s negative comments, however, were on balance funnier, better written, and more pointed than Obama’s. Neither candidate’s comments were entirely fair in every characterization of their opponents’ positions.By continuing to spread false memes about the nature of Sarah Palin's speech as if they were true, the press marches forward in the most biased season of political reporting I've seen since at least 1998.
That's Jim Lindgren at the Volokh Conspiracy, who had the patience to go through the speeches more than once. Feel free to dispute his numbers after reading the whole thing. The link goes to only one of several entries on the topic. Shouldn't journalists be doing this kind of thing?
Posted by CrankyProfessor at September 5, 2008 11:21 AM
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Nahhh, the journalists are too busy reporting the latest allegation (absent one, inventing one themselves), and then reporting a response from both camps in the interests of 'balance.' The grunt work like fact-checking is obviously best left to the bloggers. . .
Posted by: Profane at September 5, 2008 3:22 PM
Silly me for being sarcastic:
http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/palin-rumors/
Posted by: Profane at September 6, 2008 12:32 PM