More Media Bias: Palin and Biden

So Sarah Palin made some poorly constructed comments in her interview with Katie Couric about Russians in the airspace around Alaska when asked about how that border relationship relates to foreign policy. As has become standard with an increasingly biased national media, the talking heads rolled their eyes and acted like she was a babbling idiot. Babbling perhaps, but based firmly in real world events. It's the media who don't seem to know what's going on up there. Palin was talking about the increase in bomber exercises by Russia in that region last year. Read about it the New York Times here:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/01/america/NA-GEN-US-Russian-Bombers-Alaska.php

No doubt the Times will mock her tomorrow because like the Washington Post they don't seem to read their own paper or consider it any more reliable than I do. (See section "Washington Post Paradox" in this article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122193386006060171.html)

Meanwhile, Joe Biden managed to mangle both the president in office during the Wall Street crash of 1929 and the invention of the television. In a CBS interview, he said, "When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. " (Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glrnb_G34E4) Of course, the president at the time was Herbert Hoover, and the television debuted ten years later. This was at least as eye-roll-inducing as Palin's sloppy presentation, but brought about ten percent of the media response.

Apparently, what's good for the goose is not good for the gander in American journalism.