Fred Barbash

Politico Pushes Palin Inexperience Criticism Citing Obama-backing Historians

By Ken Shepherd | August 30, 2008 - 21:34

Furthering the Obama campaign's complaints about McCain running mate Gov. Sarah Palin's (R-Alaska) inexperience, Politico's Fred Barbash and David Mark turned to presidential historians for comment, who panned the wisdom of McCain's pick.

Yet as an e-mail tipster to NewsBusters pointed out, two of the historians critical of Palin's "lack of experience" donated money to Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign.  Our tipster was too generous.

When I went to check out at about 10 p.m., I found the following update appended to their August 30 article, "Scholars question Palin credentials.":