Dan Riehl documents here how Levi Johnston has allowed the media’s temporary obsession with his personalized “tidbits” about Sarah Palin go to his head to the point he’s taken to calling himself “Ricky Hollywood.” Apparently he thinks the mainstream media actually likes him. Riehl sets the record straight:
I see the mainstream mediots, far lefties, and Beltway Republicans are still throwing out the words “quitter” and “quitting” with reckless abandon – using them in the most derogatory of ways, insinuating or outright suggesting that Sarah Palin’s days as being a political player in the GOP are “over” because she’s stepping down as Governor of Alaska. I’d like to remind those know-it-alls that our current President is a quitter, too, if that’s the word they want to use.
Doing the work of Barack Obama and Barney Frank, so they don’t have to:
This (h/t: Tim Graham) is probably one of the most explosive and detailed pieces of journalism you’ll ever read on the double standards the media employed last year in their coverage of Sarah Palin versus Joe Biden. One of the money quotes:
This is surely a sign of the times, and not a good one:
