Joe McGinniss calls out the media for their cowardice in dealing with Sarah Palin.

From The Rogue Blog:

Daum writes, “Palin has gumption…But that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t have gone after her harder on many fronts. I didn’t do it because I didn’t want to come across as a mean-spirited smarty pants.”

She also admits, “Because the Palin machine ingeniously rebrands any criticism…as bilious emanations of the ‘lamestream media’(this being code for liberal elitist, which is code for educated…) it’s all but impossible to challenge her without being discredited…”

I think we should read and re-read the above. One of the hottest Gen-X writers on the radar screen says she pulled her punches at Sarah because she was afraid of being attacked by Palinists. Now that she sees Sarah as down and probably out (“Sarah Palin probably isn’t running for president”) she expresses remorse, because she feels it’s safe to do so.

While we might not applaud her careerism, we should at least give her credit for ‘fessin up, even at this late date. Very few of the many worse offenders have had the courage to do so.

It has been my experience over these last several years that intelligent, often fearless bloggers and journalists have blanched at the very idea of poking the Mama Grizzly for fear of angering her barbaric horde of supporters. So frightened were some of these individuals that they would avoid all contact with me for fear that they could be too easily smeared by Palin-bots who used me as a bludgeon to scare them away from potentially damaging stories that I had covered.

Now that the flying monkeys are down to only a few platoons, we see some journalists discovering their backbones, and yet there are still potential scandals that send them screaming into the night.

My question is how long must we wait for the media to really take Snowdrift Snooki to task for her hateful activities, her many lies, and her potentially criminal activities?

Oh wait, I do believe that question starts receiving an answer on May 10th.