Tough Love

SARAH PALIN has brought out the crazies the way leeches are supposed to draw out bad blood. But don’t worry, this little feature won’t be a tour through the Hieronymus Bosch hell that the left-wing blogosphere has become (though Andrew Sullivan looks more like Edvard Munch’s The Scream). Instead I’d like to focus on a single bad humor to come out of Palinpalooza.

Reviewing the Alaska governor’s convention speech, Washington Post style columnist Tom Shales wrote the following: “And a poorly made film about Ronald Reagan, shown to the delegates on Tuesday night, included the outright lie that ‘the media hated’ Reagan, when just the opposite is closer to the truth.” Shales went on: “Reagan’s time in the White House was a virtual love affair with the press, whom he charmed as infectiously as he charmed the whole country.”

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SARAH PALIN has brought out the crazies the way leeches are supposed to draw out bad blood. But don’t worry, this little feature won’t be a tour through the Hieronymus Bosch hell that the left-wing blogosphere has become (though Andrew Sullivan looks more like Edvard Munch’s The Scream). Instead I’d like to focus on a single bad humor to come out of Palinpalooza.

Reviewing the Alaska governor’s convention speech, Washington Post style columnist Tom Shales wrote the following: “And a poorly made film about Ronald Reagan, shown to the delegates on Tuesday night, included the outright lie that ‘the media hated’ Reagan, when just the opposite is closer to the truth.” Shales went on: “Reagan’s time in the White House was a virtual love affair with the press, whom he charmed as infectiously as he charmed the whole country.”