Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Interesting Comparison   [Jonah Goldberg]

From Howard Kurtz's piece:

McCain also canceled a scheduled appearance on CNN's "Larry King Live" on Tuesday in retaliation for an interview a day earlier in which prime-time host Campbell Brown repeatedly pressed campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds to provide one example of a decision that Palin had made as commander of the Alaska National Guard.

"The interview was totally fair," Brown said. "I was trying to get an answer. I was persistent, but I was respectful. That's my job. Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin."

Me: Okay sure. I have no problem with her pressing the question. But just for the record, John McCain is a politician running against Barack Obama. Campbell Brown isn't a surrogate for the Obama campaign, recent impressions notwithstanding. She would be in a better place defending her — and her network's — behavior if CNN actually considered Barack Obama's experience as legitimate an issue as Sarah Palin's. Has Obama's spokesman ever been grilled by Brown about how Obama's never held a single hearing of his subcommittee on European affairs? You know the one that has some jurisdiction over stuff like Georgia. The place that put Biden on the ticket.

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