Entry from September 4, 2008
I don’t know about you, but I’m having a hard time keeping up. The swirl of rumor and counter-rumor about poor Sarah Palin means that the media’s scandal machine has been put into overdrive. But now I’m beginning to think that the machine may have been overloaded and is now beginning to choke and sputter and overheat and perhaps — a fellow can dream, can’t he? — will break down entirely. The problem is that the media panicked. Doubtless because of their fear that Governor Palin will prove too popular and therefore cause the defeat of their darling, Barack Obama, they threw her private life and character open to every wild internet rumor or journalistic speculation so precipitately that we had scarcely met her before finding ourselves forced to choose between regarding her as a sort of boreal Lucrezia Borgia or rejecting the whole scandal narrative completely.
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