In an article entitled Embarracuda, Joe Klein, who has had the scales come crashing from his eyes, absolutely eviscerates the McCain campaign, and Sassy Sarah in particular. Some choice passages below the fold:
Discussing Scary Sarah's William Ayers attacks:
In any case, this is rather rich coming from Palin, who is married to a man who belonged to a political party--the Alaskan Independence Party--that wanted to secede from the union. (I should add here that the Times may have been overreacting to the McCain campaign's attack on its fairness here: the Ayers story was a nothingburger, but it was placed prominently in the top left hand corner of page one--a position that would seem to indicate that it contained important news, which it didn't.)
He then addresses Sarahzilla's "interview" with Bill "All Wrong, All The Time" Kristol, wherein she discusses Rev. Wright:
So then, I'd guess, it would be appropriate to bring up some of the nuttiness that passes for godliness in Palin's religious life. Leave aside the fact that The Embarracuda allowed herself to participate in a cermony that protected her from witchcraft, how about her presence--she didn't "get up and leave"-- at a sermon by the founder of Jews for Jesus, who argued that the Palestinian terrorist acts against Israel were God's "judgment" on the Jews because they hadn't accepted Jesus.
Speaking of Jews, the ever-execrable Sean Hannity has been having intercourse with a known Jew-hater named Andy Martin, who now wants to expose Barack Obama as a Muslim.
Joe concludes thusly:
As I said, I'm of two minds about this. I don't want to give currency to this sewage, so it will remain below the fold. And I'll try to devote the lion's share of my time to the issues--the war, the economic crisis, the fraying health insurance system, the environment--that should define this campaign. But what a desperate empty embarrassment the McCain campaign has become.
http://www.time-blog.com/...
Now I've been one of Joe Klein's harsher critics, what with his past nasty habit of reinforcing reichwing bullshit memes. But lately it seems that he's one of the few alleged journalists who are calling this thing as it really is, and all truth-respecting people ought to be grateful that he's seen fit to do it.