Media is impotent on judging conservatives

Anyone who watched Sarah Palin gaffe and stumble her way through Katie Couric's Q&A had to be horrified.

It was a cringe-inducing performance that went largely unnoticed in the mainstream media. Wolf Blitzer, when pressed by his angered and beloved colleague Jack Cafferty to "not make excuses" for Palin, said dryly "it wasn't her best interview."

Wasn't her best interview? Are you joking? I am an avowed Palin-hater and even I was uncomfortable, and I even *gasp* kind of felt sorry for her. She was sweating it out and could be seen looking down at least twice, trying to avoid the look of the whimsical, pitying face of Katie Couric who had to be wishing it was over even more than Palin.

But the mainstream media (except Cafferty and a brilliant SNL spoof) largely paid no attention to it. Even Chuck Todd, who many Republicans accuse of being "in the tank" for Obama, wouldn't come out and say the truth: That Sarah Palin looked, at best, terribly off the mark, and at worst, disqualified herself from the vice-presidency in a five-minute interview. Even George W. Bush has punched through more articulate and navigated responses!

In short, the media will not say that McCain played politics by wanting to bow out of the campaign and not debate, and the media will also continue to blindly refuse to acknowledge Palin's astonishing lack of understanding on any substantive issues. Period.