Some very good questions

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We have several members of the press, suddenly fans of sahmotherhood, asking if Sarah can really be a good mother and Veep at the same time. They do not ask if Obama can really be a good father when he's home ten days a year. They did not ask that question of Edwards when his wife's cancer recurred and their sons were 10 and 8 at the time and he continued to run for office.

We have HOward Kurtz uttering this remarkable, and previously unknown, standard for covering the children of candidates:


It is perfectly fine to showcase your family as you introduce yourself to America. But then you can't turn around and slam the press for writing about your family in a less flattering light than you would prefer to present them.


Obama's children, of course, were much in evidence when he spoke at the Democratic convention, and they are equally adorable and deserve to be with their father on that historic night. That does not give the press the right to write about the children in any unflattering light, and when it comes to their candidate, they understood that perfectly well.

Kurtz also says:

Have we Fourth Estate types gone too far? Roger Simon weighs in:

"On behalf of the media, I would like to say we are sorry. On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very sorry.

"We have asked questions this week that we should never have asked. We have asked pathetic questions like: Who is Sarah Palin? What is her record? Where does she stand on the issues? And is she is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?

"We have asked mean questions like: How well did John McCain know her before he selected her? How well did his campaign vet her? And was she his first choice?

"Bad questions. Bad media. Bad."



Those are not the questions you asked. You asked about whether or not Trig was her child, and why was he out in public, anyway, and how could a mother of five be a vice-president, and did she take proper prenatal care, and did she have an affair, and who is the father of Bristol's baby and you made false and sly insinuations and accusations about the vetting process, reporting as facts things that weren't true (no vetting, only met once, member of a secessionist party) and when you report on taser-gate, you neglect to mention that the person she is accused of firing because he would not dismiss the ex-brother in law has plainly told the press before that nobody pressured him to fire the guy, and you almost never mention that this brother-in-law is the sort of cop who tasered his stepson, threatened to murder his father-in-law, and drank from an open container in his patrol car, among other unsavory things, and nobody in their right mind would want him holding a badge and a gun.

Meanwhile, there is a long list of questions regarding Obama about which I can't tell that the press has ever displayed much interest.

Did Obama keep any sort of schedule or calendar during his seven years in the Illinois general assembly that the press (or anybody) has looked at, vetted?

What legislation did he write during that time? Write- as in author, not co-sign or simply sign as author, but legislation he truly authored himself.

During his time as a civil rights lawyer, what cases did he litigate?

What is his paper trail during the time he taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago? Did he publish anything- a pamphlet, a letter to the editor, an article for a scholarly journal, anything?

Has he released his academic records from college? What do they show?

Do we have any papers or articles he wrote while in college?

What did Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour have to do with getting Obama into Harvard, and why?

What happened with the funds he was in charge of with the Annenberg challenge? Why did he get away with saying that terrorist Bill Ayers is just some guy in his neighborhood? Why did he choose to launch his political career from the home of an unrepentant terrorist?

Since the press has clearly decided families are off limits, would somebody in the press ask Obama why he says he is his brother's keeper and yet his brother lives in a cardboard box?
What does he mean by being his 'brother's keeper?'

These two lists could go on and on- the one a list of nonjournalistic questions and actions against Sarah Palin, and the record of journalistic omissions in favor of Obama.

But the press is not that stupid. They know this. They just hope that you don't.