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British media, including the supposedly conservative ones, are supporting Obama and (especially) hounding Sarah Palin, with a ferocity unknown even to their American counterparts, and looking more like the Daily Kos than anything, so to speak, human. This is appalling in itself, and may well end up being disastrous if by any chance McCain and Palin win. These creatures are planting poisonous ideas in the average British reader, which will take decades to weed away. And incidentally, it does nothing to disprove my view that at the roots of all serious modern political conflict in the West there is abortion; for the British media and establishment, including the so-called conservatives, are completely sold on the practice, and anti-abortion forces are marginalized to an extent unknown and hard to believe in Italy or America. This goes back a long time - Margaret Thatcher always voted in favour of abortion. Now, Sarah Palin, simply by being who she is, is a living rebuke to all the abortion-is-necessary crowd; and this explains the ferocious hatred and the avalanche of pathological lies with which this attractive, polite, competent female politician has been welcomed. Find me another explanation that makes sense! It also accounts for the complete silence that has been enforced on anything that might make Obama, the most pro-abortion candidate in history, look bad or even moderately dubious. It is not about race; if Judge Clarence Thomas were running for President, he would be treated like Palin has been. It is not even about party; if Condoleeza Rice had run and got the Republican nomination, you can bet your life that she would have had a much smoother ride than Palin. She, after all, has no children. You cannot underrate the power of repressed and concealed guilt feelings, crawling under the skin of all the career women who got rid of unwanted babies in order to please bosses and boyfriends, and indeed among all the men who were complicit in their crimes or even demanded them; when faced with a brilliantly successful career woman who not only had five children, but opted against aborting even the disabled one. (I don't suppose it helps that she is beautiful and looks ten years younger than her age. The sheer unfairness of the distribution of beauty is salt on any open wound, and the wound in question is painful enough in the first place.) Sarah Palin is a mirror who tells them the truth about themselves; and it is a truth that they cannot bear to see.

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Oh, sure. There was an investigation. And investigations are sainted objects with which nobody ever tampers and whose results are never set in advance to please lobbies (such as, say, the troopers' union). And I would raise pigs, but they keep sprouting wings and flying away. No matter what bromides the so-called enquiry used, this man used a taser on a child. End, in the eyes of any reasonable person, of story. And firm evidence that you are not being reasonable.

You're going a long, long way to try to say that Sarah Palin was impartial in a process that involved her own family. You've impugned journalists and peace officers with how much evidence, exactly? Seriously, can you back this up with anything?

According to the State Police report, Wooten used a fraction of the power of the Taser on his stepson, little more of a jolt than you'd get by licking a battery. Your effort to paint the incident in the starkest terms possible only demonstrates my point and frustration: your candidate's enemies can do no right, your candidate can do wrong. The essence of naked partisanship.

And you trust the State Police to investigate ITSELF?? Boy, do you have those bridges comin' to you.

I trust it a far sight farther than I trust you to know what the hell is going on from Britain.

Well, go on trusting it, then. Meanwhile, I am tired of this nonsense and declare this thread closed. You are welcome to insert any comment you think proper on your own blog, but mine will not receive them.

Since you think the report is untrustworthy, I'm curious what inaccuracies or spurious claims you found in the report when you read it.

I do not accept the police investigating itself, on principle. Anyone who accepts it is a moron. End of discussion. And if you insist, just study the events about the murder of Jean Chafles de Menezes.

*shrug* Suit yourself.

Fine. There's someone out there with a bridge for you to buy, too.