PBS Questions Palin's Experience, Not Obama's

By Jacob S. Lybbert (Bio | Archive)
September 19, 2008 - 02:12 ET

First NPR and now PBS; the publicly funded media outlets are revealing their respective bias in different ways, but the net result is the same: they favor Barack Obama over John McCain.

Now available on PBS's NOW segment webpage (not to be confused with the National Organization for Women, subject of my post yesterday) is a poll about Governor Sarah Palin. It asks:

Do you think Sarah Palin is qualified to serve as Vice President of the United States?

Considered independently of anything else, this is a fair enough question, such as it is.

However, considered in light of the lack of a similar question about Democratic Presidential nominee, Barack Obama, it becomes a clear case of bias.

Clear headed pundits can reasonably argue about the relative merits of Obama's experience vs. Palin's experience, however, one must always keep in mind the fact that the two are applying for far different jobs. Questions about experience, if raised about one, ought to be raised about the other.


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Geez, you would think she was running .......

September 19, 2008 - 04:03 ET by old cro

for president or something. Ohh(bama), that is what these socialists in control of everything that sucks at the governmental teet think, or are trying to insinuate, that McCain will DIE one day after being sworn in and Sarah will be your next president. Remember, blacks are at a much higher risk of heart attack and stroke than the average white dude, so Biden should come under the same scrutiny as Palin according to thier lack of (sounds like...) logic.

This is nothing new to me...

September 19, 2008 - 04:33 ET by sentforth5

PBS is a communist outfit, and frankly I do not see a dime's worth of difference between "socialist" and "communist". I may be one of the last 50 people in America who do not subscribe to cable television and as a result, I end up watching PBS Central Georgia quite a bit and have known for a long time that this is a communist bunch.

The DNC coverage was a punch-laden celebration while the RNC coverage was little more than a funeral dirge. Every animal show they have bashes and trashes humans as the over-all enemy of nature. They heavily brainwash children into believing the global- warming tripe and teach us all to speak spanish first thing in the morning.

Commies...PBS is run by commies.

PBS

September 19, 2008 - 05:49 ET by well99

Is a total joke now.Well it has been that way for years.They have no integrity.

Subject: Who

September 19, 2008 - 05:51 ET by Ruths husband Ben

Subject: Who Am
I?

 

I am under 45
years old,

I love the outdoors,

I hunt,

I am a Republican reformer,

I have taken on the Republican
Party establishment,

I have many children,

I have a spot on the national
ticket as vice president with less than
two years in the governor's office.

Have you ever heard of me
before now?

I am Theodore
Roosevelt.

(my son sent me this, author unknown - Ben) 

“it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.” - Justice Antonin Scalia

history repeats itself

September 19, 2008 - 08:03 ET by c5then

Are we witnessing the birth of the Bull Moose ticket - part deux?

 

You want change? Give me a dollar.

The Dems are soooo very scared...

September 19, 2008 - 08:11 ET by c5then

The Republican ticket as a VP candidate that is more qualified than the top of the Democrat ticket.

 

You want change? Give me a dollar.

The Republican ticket

September 19, 2008 - 18:56 ET by sentforth5

may very well have a VP candidate that is more qualified than the top of the Republican ticket!

sf... I Second

September 19, 2008 - 19:02 ET by bigtimer

sf...

I Second that!

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

PBS

September 22, 2008 - 16:38 ET by east tennessee john

That's right Barack the Red was a field organizer for ACORN, you know that radical Marxist group that takes funds from Freddie and Fannie that Obama never regulated since he was on the "payroll" too, violates voting registration laws whenever possible.In the PBS world, that's unmatched experience. Palin has no such experience. Do you wonder what Professor Obama the Red taught at ACORN school? Can anyone name any more practical experience that Obama has over Palin? Remember, he's running for President, her Vice-President.