This week's biggest loser: the mainstream media that elevated Breitbart by trying to sink him, and humanized Palin by trying to demonize her

Ryan Streeter
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The mainstream media has to be this week's biggest loser. First, it had to admit that Andrew Breitbart was right, Anthony Weiner wrong.

Then, with expectation reminiscent of Geraldo Rivera's legendary Al Capone's vault episode 25 years ago, the media awaited with bated breath the Post's release of Sarah Palin's emails. 

Thud.

That's both the sound of the email-laden boxes hitting the Post's delivery floor and the signficance of the story. Sort of like when Geraldo's workmen pulled down the Capone vault door to find nothing behind it.

As Politico reports this morning, there's really not much of a "there" there.

Instead, we are left with this kind of commentary:

The Palin that emerges from the first cut at nearly 25,000 emails released by the state of Alaska Friday is touchingly authentic...She comes across as practical and not doctrinaire.

Media types have grown so accustomed to their own view of Palin that they were sure the Palin they would find in the emails would be even more unplugged - which is to say far more bizarre than she already is.

But so far, the emails haven't revealed much of anything important. Surprise, surprise, they reveal a Governor at work, talking with colleagues and staffers about that work, and so on. But that's not stopping every media outlet in the country from running stories about the emails, reporting on whatever they can find that seems to reveal something or other about Palin. In so doing, they only portray her to be a very average, normal mom-at-work who happened to serve as Governor of one of the country's least populated states.

So, in the past week, a liberal media has done its best to make Andrew Breitbart a hero and to humanize the Palin they love to demonize. They could do worse things to conservatives.

Comments

[Dawn Carpenter]

I shall never understand why Sarah Palin resigned as Governor of Alaska. It would made all the difference if she had carried on. Now she is seen by many as a quitter who could not stay the course, and she has no record in high office. Such a shame.

[section9]

Wait. You've been reading about her record in public office over the past couple of days.

Perhaps you just didn't want to know?