Missoulian editor: We didn't 'sneak in' to a Palin speech
We've gotten used to Sarah Palin taking swipes at the "lamestream media" and our habit of "makin' things up." But one newspaper editor in Montana took it personally this week when the former Alaska governor made an offhand remark about the press -- and swiped back.
In a post on MissoulaEditor.com, Missoulian editor Sherry Devlin takes Palin to task, reacting to a comment Palin made to the crowd assembled at a fundraiser for Teen Challenge, a Christian charity that helps women in crisis.
"Be careful. There may be some media that sneaked into the room," Palin allegedly told her audience.
Not so, Devlin retorted. There was no sneaking on the part of the Missoulian's reporters on the scene, who were there with organizers' permission.
"Last week, they picked up a credential packet from Teen Challenge," she wrote. "They showed I.D. to pick up the packet. They were given green wristbands and were told to put them on their left wrists. They checked in at the door on Sunday, showed their wristbands and were placed in one corner of the room -- and told not to move. They were very visible, very public, very respectful and professional." (And then they wrote up an account of the speech that not even Palin could honestly accuse of being critical.)
The problem, Devlin writes, is that Palin's remark about the media was "intended to create distrust of the professional journalists in this city and all across the country who take their jobs very seriously and work hard to accurately and fairly report the news."
PoliticsUSA.com is calling the post "the first flickers of a press pushback against Sarah Palin." Palin would probably argue that the press pushed first. And one MissoulaEditor.com reader suggested in the comments that "if Sarah Palin doesn't want the media to report on her actions, you might consider obliging her."
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