Lest we forget

Jonah Goldberg spots some brilliant analysis:

Rep. Alcee Hastings told an audience of Jewish Democrats Wednesday that they should be wary of Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin because "anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks."

You mean there are crazies on the left, too? I am as shocked as you are.

Wool, meet eyes

Jonah Goldberg splutters:

let’s not forget Biden, whose gaffes are the unavoidable byproduct of his limitless gasbaggery. Biden could shout on Meet the Press, “Get these squirrels off of me!” and the collective response would be, “There goes Joe again.” But if Palin flubs the name of the deputy agriculture minister of Kyrgyzstan, the media will blow their whistles saying she’s unprepared for the job.

When you give 80 interviews to your opponent's 2 and in general make yourself much more available to the press, you're not in the same ballpark. Have Palin give something like 78 interviews to catch up, then we can compare meters on gaffes and media bias.

I assume 80 is a high estimate and that they weren't all serious interviews. But it's still a very large ratio and this doesn't even account for Biden's frequent non-interview conversations with press.

Myself, I don't think Sean Hannity infomercials count for much:



It's more like 80 to 1.