The pundits might be gushing but the comments on the articles are brutal

[Egnever]

Ouch in the comments on this story
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/03/rosen.palin/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Palin's speech was devoid of content, other than stuff that convinced me she is not what the country needs right now. Health care and the economy were avoided like the third rail. The war in Iraq was mentioned only to manipulate sentiment, not to offer solutions; Palin's military son and her other children were trotted out in the same vein. The GOP campaign strategy remains, clearly, to pick out their opponent's strengths and ridicule them with schoolyard-type taunting. No alternatives to Obama's policy plans were offered.

She appealed shamelessly to nationalism rather than patriotism--the success of that strategy manifest by the grunt-like chants of U-S-A thoughout the auditorium (in which many of the seats appeared empty, by the way). The "Drill baby drill" chant showed her supporters in their worst light, and should repel rather than attract many of the people the party had hoped to sway by choosing her.

We are not fooled by her folksiness or dazzled by the glitz. We need a president who can govern, and a vice-president who is more than a token. It is ludicrous, and typical GOP simplistic thinking, to imagine that undecided women voters might accept her as a "Hilary substitute." More like the "feminist bridge to nowhere," as she has been aptly dubbed. less

[DJ13]

1. The disconnect between the gushing MSM and the voters will force ..

.....the MSM to realign their opinions to reflect what the people are saying, or they will face a backlash soon.

Even the McCain campaign's whining about the media wont matter if the viewers/readers stop viewing/reading because they see the media as bought by the GOP.

[Egnever]

2. I think you are right

They are getting pushed back against hard this morning. We need to keep the pressure on them.

[WinkyDink]

5. That disconnect is what led to Bush v. Gore, when FOX (Bush cousin) et al. LIED about the EXIT polls

I do not misunderestimate the MSM.

[AndyTiedye]

6. No. It Will Make the MSM Redouble Their Efforts to Catapult the Propaganda

The MSM is owned by the GOP and they're gonna stay that way as long as the likes of GE are signing their paychecks.

If it hurts their ratings, that means nothing to them, compared to keeping the Republicans warmongers in power.

[girl gone mad]

7. People have so little respect for the media these days.

The irony is that the Republican party spent the last 30 years undermining the media by accusing them of partisanship. They want it both ways, but that isn't the way it works.

[Diane R]

3. I posted links to some of the comments last night. The independent and swing voters hated her.

[Egnever]

4. Thats my take as well

the majority of comments I have read on all the news sites have been negative.

The MSM is doing its best to sell it but it doesn't look like many are buying.

God I love the interwebs.