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Sarah Palin and Mark Halperin's complaints of "liberal media"

The Time magazine reporter proclaims that "Palin is being so very scrutinized" due in part to "anti-Republican bias" in the press.

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  • Wednesday, September 3, 2008 04:15 PM

    More Noonan Fun

    Noonan in today's WSJ:

    I'm bumping into a lot of critics who do not buy the legitimacy of small town mayorship (Palin had two terms in Wasilla, Alaska, population 9,000 or so) and executive as opposed to legislative experience. But executives, even of small towns, run something. There are 262 cities in this country with a population of 100,000 or more. But there are close to a hundred thousand small towns with ten thousand people or less. "You do the math," the conservative pollster Kellyanne Conway told me. "We are a nation of Wasillas, not Chicagos."

    http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html

    Noonan caught on tape:

    The most qualified? No! I think they went for this -- excuse me-- political bullshit about narratives --

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