I Need a Little Help Here, Tracking Down Those Vile Liberals

Respected -- for now -- political analyst Michael Barone says this:

The liberal media attacked Sarah Palin because she did not abort her Down syndrome baby.

I've heard other conservatives say the same thing.

Now, I spend four or five hours a day reading the web and watching news shows on TV, and I haven't seen or heard a single significant liberal say anything like that. In conversations with liberal friends and activist Democrats, all I've heard is admiration for the Palin's decision to care for their Down's Syndrome child.

So, perhaps someone out there could direct me to a single liberal pundit or commentator or politician or anyone of significance and influence who did anything like ridiculing Sarah Palin for choosing to carry her child to term. (Crackpot bloggers don't count.) Because I've looked, and I can't find a single member of the "liberal media" who said anything of the sort.

I think this is one of those imagined affronts that -- like Al Gore claiming to have invented the Internet -- is going to enter our political lore and become common knowledge despite the fact that it's not true.

Comments

[Steve]

Tom, in the article you linked to, Barone goes on to say that he made it up and he went too far.

"Barone did not dispute the accounts of his remarks. Asked about the comments, Barone said in an e-mail that he "was attempting to be humorous and, as many in public do, went over the line." "

His premise however is accurate IMO:

Sorry for that," Barone said. "I was trying to focus on press hostility to Palin. I agree with [Washington Post media reporter and CNN 'Reliable Sources' host] Howard Kurtz that the press was much more interested in tracking down negative information on Palin than Obama."

So, having read the article, I am unclear what you are looking for in this post.

[Wally]

Steve,
I am an early and enthusiastic Obama supporter. Conversely, I think the kindest thing anyone could say about Obama's sweetheart real estate deal with Rezko is that it was ill-considered. I believe that Bill Ayers should have served some jail time for what he did.
I also know that America is filled with journalists looking for their big break: Newspaper reporters, third tier TV talking heads, wild-eyed bloggers from NYC to LA. But every one of them declined the Pulitzer-winning opportunity to deliver "The Dirt" on Barack because of their liberal bias. Every. Last. One of them. This is the narrative you wish us to believe?
The well-funded armies of oppo-researchers working for the Clintons and the RNC spent 2+ years digging through Obama's trash. Each one of them withheld the critical, game-changing report of Obama's fatal flaw because they did not want to appear rascist. Every. Last. One of them. This is the narrative you wish us to believe?
There is no there, there as Stein famously said about Oakland. Obama is no saint but I think there was a lack of negative press for the same reason we don't see much negative commentary about Mother Theresa. Everything about Obama is overwhelmingly positive unless you consider "liberal' a four letter word. In which case you can't count and you apparently do "need a weatherman to tell you which way the wind is blowin'".