Desperate Deception and Clear Evidence of Fox News Bias
One of the headlines today is that Palin is going on the offensive, and she's doing it by attacking Obama's character, more than his plan or his substance.
Specifically, she's conducting fear-mongering (what a surprise...) by making a desperate attempt to associate him with terrorists. Here's her quote from FoxNews.com:
"Our opponent ... is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country."
-- FoxNews.com, Sunday, October 5, 2008 http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/05/attacks-personal-campaign-calendar-ticks-election-day/
Follow that link, please. No, really, go and read it. Read the whole article. Notice that Fox makes no attempt whatsoever to either support or deny the claim. Rather, they let the claim stand on its own merit, as though it had any merit. The only thing they do is quote Senator McCaskill (D-MO) refuting the allegation (at the end of the article), but only after they extensively quoted Senator Lieberman (I-CT) as saying that a double standard is at work and that Obama's campaign would have made the same kind of attack if they could.
Now, please go read just about any other news site about the same event where Palin made her claim. I'll provide some links, but you should also do some searching yourself. If you're at a loss but generally think that Palin is credible, then you should know Palin told Fox News that she reads the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal (the latter is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which also owns Fox News).
Nothing from NPR, PBS's News Hour (which generally leans right, according to FAIR), or BBC World News yet.
From what I gather, Palin's got the info from the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/politics/04ayers.html
That article made it abundantly clear that there is nothing substantial about his relationship.
Seriously, Sarah! Does this mean Obama could start attacking you because of your relationship to pit bulls?