NewsBusters: Post Buries Article on Palin's Call for 'Conservative, Feminist Identity'

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Newsbusters managing editor Ken Shepherd was "disappointed but hardly surprised" that the Washington Post "buried" a story written by Amy Gardner on Sarah Palin's call for pro-life women to form a "conservative, feminist identity":

While the 10-paragraph article in itself didn't raise any bias alarm bells, I was disappointed but hardly surprised that the Post buried the story on the last page of its A-section.

Gardner's article focused on how Palin, "[s]peaking to a breakfast gathering of the Susan B. Anthony List in downtown Washington on Friday" observed that liberal pro-choice feminists are hypocrites for on the one hand insisting that women can hold fulfilling careers while being mothers but at the same time those same feminists hold out abortion for young women who might feel their unwanted pregnancies are an inconvenience obstacle to career or educational goals.

Gov. Palin's calling out of liberal feminists for their hypocrisy, observes Shepherd, was the stimulus for the Post's Jonathan Capehart, a Palin critic who took the trouble to attend the SBA List's Celebration of Life Breakfast fundraiser to see her speak. In his column, Capehart conceded that the first woman ever to be the vice presidential candidate of the Republican Party had made "a very interesting point."

Read Shepherd's full NewsBusters post here.

- JP