Why the media defends Sarah Palin's joke of a candidacy

Sarah Palin did not win last night's debate; she did not score points with the American public. The polls and focus groups conducted by CBS and CNN show that a large majority of Americans thought that Palin was evasive, uniformed, and not ready to lead. However, the spin from the mainstream media is that Palin held her own. Don't believe the media hype.

We have sacrificed thousands of American troops in a war based on a Republican lie and John McCain bought into this lie (or perhaps he was in on it). Meanwhile, Osama Bin Laden isn't any closer to being captured than he was seven years ago, our economy is in a nosedive, and people don't know how they're going to afford their houses or healthcare. And what does Sarah Palin do? She winks at the camera a lot, she says a lot of "you betchas," repeats the hollow "Maverick" term and other catch phrases over and over. More importantly, she outright refused to answer a sincere question that she didn't understand. All that Palin is capable of parroting is the same false and generalized messages that she said five minutes earlier. And this behavior is forgivable to the corporate media?

The media has a horse in this race and it's called ratings. All this drama is good for CBS, ABC, FOX, NBC, FoxNews, MSNBC, and Faux News. Trying to make this presidential race appear closer than it is their way of sucking out higher ratings and getting more advertising revenue. So, it doesn't matter to them that Sarah Palin railed at them and refused to answer the questions posed by Gwen Ifill. Sarah Palin can't damage the media. It will be here long after Sarah Palin is forgotten.

But in a short time, the corporate media and Sarah Palin have forged a symbiotic relationship that will continue through this election cycle. The media monolith feeds off of Sarah Palin as she pretends to fight back; still she uses their cameras to "vogue" to the public. Did we watch a debate or was it Sarah Palin starring in "High School Musical 4?" What a perverse game that's being played here!

Of course, the corporate media monolith doesn't want to kill the latest goose that lays the golden egg just yet. While this goose likes to nip, it's a small price paid for ratings and revenue. There will be other geese and other golden eggs to feed the media after this election is over. And as long as these geese help sell newspapers and attracts viewers, they can squawk and bite all they want as far as the media is concerned.

But despite what they're told by the media, the American public is becoming smarter than the media. Its tuning out the media lectures; it doesn't like to be told what to think by covens of pundits. The public knows this election is different from others. This election is about the issues, and not drama. And Palin didn't address the issues in in last night's debate and they gave her a pass. The media will do anything to keep this race close.