Bill O'Reilly: Hammering Sarah

Bill O'Reilly has written a very good op-ed for Townhall.com on the media's war against Sarah Palin. Here are few excerpts:

It is worth noting that the left has not been able to knock Palin out despite trying very hard. A study by the Culture and Media Institute looked at a two-week period during last year's presidential campaign. During that time, the nightly network newscasts ran 18 negative stories about candidate Palin for every positive story.

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Feminist Naomi Wolf and crazy-left Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson put forth the latest propaganda. Independently, they dubbed Palin the new Evita. What are the odds of Wolf and Robinson, who operate worlds apart, both referencing Argentine Eva Peron at pretty much the same time? Coincidence? Sure.

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My theory is that liberal America fears Palin. Even though a CBS News poll has her approval rating at just 23 percent, a whopping 37 percent of respondents say they are still undecided about the former governor. That means millions of Americans are potential converts to her populist cause. Bad news for the left if the country turns against the Obama administration.

It's great to see O'Reilly develop a "theory" which many of us who support The Arctic Fox have recognized as fact for well over a year. But let's not be too hard on BOR. He has a large audience in the millions with many independents among them. If he can persuade these independents to take a second look at the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate, that's a good thing -- a very good thing.

- JP