What Is This World Coming To?

It is impossible to imagine that the liberal network news could be more clumsy in its efforts to manipulate the results of the general election than it has been in its efforts to paint Sarah Palin as some kind of moose-hunting rube.

Indeed, in ABC’s own coverage of the interview, they continued the assault:

“Palin has no previous foreign policy experience and her comments hewed closely to the McCain camp’s established foreign policy positions on former Soviet nations joining NATO, and the threats posed from Islamic terrorists and a nuclear Iran.

When asked if Georgia joined NATO, whether the United States should go to war if the country was again invaded by Russia, Palin responded: “Perhaps so. I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally, is if another country is attacked, you’re going to be expected to be called upon and help.”

Palin — whose military experience is limited to her gubernatorial role as commander-in-chief of the Alaska National Guard, an organization with fewer members than there are citizens in the town of which she was mayor — tried to tout her energy expertise in lieu of her lack of national security policy. . . .”

Palin may not have the experience in national security policy of an ABC news reporter, but she was right when she says that NATO treaty obligations include treating an attack on one member nation as an attack on them all.

In fairness, since ABC didn’t, I should point out that Barack Obama’s foreign policy experience (and he is the top of the ticket) is limited to the 173 days he’s served in the Senate, almost all of which were as a presidential candidate.

Palin, 44, whose political career began with the PTA and a city-council seat in Wasilla and who obtained her first passport last year, told Gibson that she was up to the challenge of being Sen. John McCain’s vice president.

I’m waiting to read an ABC account that includes, “Obama, 46, whose political career began as a community organizer who has never even visted Russia or Canada, the two countries that border Alaska, feels his months in the US Senate qualify him to be the most powerful man in the world. . . . “  but I won’t hold my breath.

But I hear a lot fewer people are getting their news from ABC News than from any other source. . . .