Sarah Palin Gets It Right For Once

Normally I don’t think much of someone like Sarah Palin who promotes ignorance as a virtue, and generally attacks the media not for its true limitations but for failing to go along with her bizarre world view. This time, however, Palin is right in attacking the “lamestream media.” As Media Matters notes, the lame media she is attacking is her own employer–Fox:

On last night’s Hannity, Fox News contributor Sarah Palin did what she does best-complain about the “lamestream media throughout our country.” This time, the media’s “lame[ness]” was revealed through their coverage of Arizona’s new controversial immigration law. Palin sniffed: “One of the media outlets the other day just-was killing me on this one, Sean, where they had a caption across their screen that said Arizona law will make it illegal to be an illegal immigrant? Some bizarre type of headline like that where it was just this illustration that they just don’t get it.”

The media she happened to make the claim that “Arizona law will make it illegal to be an illegal immigrant” turns out to be the April 27 broadcast of Fox & Friends:


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