Wednesday, September 03, 2008

We Are Now All Moral Relativists

Conservative traditions, pretzelfied. Bill O'Reilly used to say it was the parents' fault, but that was so August. And it's the media's fault, of course:
The lack of mainstream media attacks on Bristol Palin didn't stop true believers from uncorking on a favorite straw man.

The crowd groaned at the mere mention of the pregnancy issue during a panel here Tuesday morning. Idaho Lt. Gov. Jim Risch was one of several panelists who rose to defend Bristol's honor. Risch dismissed all baby talk with a terse: "Next question." And former McCain political aide Mike Murphy, now an NBC news-talker, ordered the media to "lay off the kid."

Even the youngest delegate here, 17-year-old Mike Knopf, had fully digested the day's "bad-media" message. "Despite what the liberal media is trying to say," regurgitated young Knopf in an interview with Newsweek, "she has nothing to be ashamed of."

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