i'm not a Palin fan, but this entire exercise by the press is instructive. They press countless reporters into this, and also ask for volunteers in the general public to assist them in reading the emails of someone who at this point is not even a candidate for President.
How many reporters did they press into the effort to even look up the public documents and positions of Obama when he was in his state legislature? How about his legal practice? School records for college?
None, as far as I can tell. Maybe Fox tried with a few.
This is bias. Bias doesn't have to be so obvious in the text of reporting, but in focus. Create a task force to investigate one person's emails, and ignore the entire past of another—OK, ignore is not fair. They all read, and repeated (often breathlessly, perhaps even with a tingle up their leg) whatever Obama wrote in his autobiographies.
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