Andrew Sullivan Kindly Points Out The Problem with the Media

Andrew Sullivan, the “conservative” whom I think would support every other aspect of the Taliban’s governance as long as it allowed gay marriage (but then who wears the veil?), inadvertently points out one of the huge problems with the Mainstream Media by posing this question in a Washington Post compilation of questions for the vice-presidential candidates.

Governor Palin, since you were selected as a vice presidential candidate, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has given more press conferences to American reporters than you have. Why do you have less confidence in the American press and people than the president of Iran does? And when will you dare to face the press for real?>

None of what I’m about to say excuses Palin from facing the press, but it’s undeniably true, and is implicit even in Sullivan’s question.

Here it is.

The press is far more solicitous of Ahmadinejad than of Palin, far more eager to “get” Palin than “get” Ahmadinejad, views Palin as a far more serious threat than Ahmadinejad, indeed sees Palin as far more evil than Ahmadinejad.