What Ace said

...the new form of McCarthyism, only without the mechanism for public recall.

That the media makes such liberal use of it should scare the pants off everyone left or right. Its as if they wantched the movie "Goodnight and Good Luck" and decided that "Hey they aren't any jackasses like Murrow anymore, so we can get away with anything and everything!"

And, really, who is left in the media with any stature to call them on it?

I've noted something in the last few days. CNN had one of their female talking heads defend her remarks about McCain. She had demanded from the McCain camp what "orders" Palin had given the National Guard in CNN's attempt to question Palin's "experiance". She says that CNN stands by the vetting of ALL candidates and to show what is really true beneath the characterizations and rhetoric of ALL the candidates. Say what? How can an objective viewer not notice the lack of vetting by media when the Dems were up as opposed the GOP convention? Why this sudden need to go beyond the words when few checked what Biden, Obama and Pelosi said before the media? Anyone remember media vetting Obama's foreign policy resume?

Added to that, we have CNN's Nixon comparisons, the strangest conjecture that we don't really know what would have happened had we pulled out of Iraq when Obama wanted to. Really? Simon is quite right and one need just watch Maher last night to see how it works. Even Stewart. Colbert can't keep to his satire anymore.

Last, I noted Moore appearing on some cover with short hair and a US flag pin. Another attack dog now given stature by Larry King. Ah, CNN again. Why the phony image? Moore says to mock that now we must "love ur country and keep a good image". So is WAS phony Moore? He tells King he loves his country but then says, "I don't care what Iran does". And this from such a smart man: only when Ahmadinejad shows up on stage at American Idol with nuke in hand will Moore rush to do anything about it........ And this is the guy that sports a new flag pin. Well he was back to his grubby self with Larry.

Palin not only threw Obama a loop, but forced media even more out in the biased open. And of course, who will vet them?