Sour Grapes

When thinking of things to write about today, the last thing I wanted to write about was a losing campaign.

Anyone who has been reading my commentaries very long, know how I detest stories that are written or reported with unnamed sources. Back in 2006, some in the Montana media used these types of sources for their stories to help elect Jon Tester. It’s cheap and lazy journalism.

The last couple of days, Fox News has been reporting about Sarah Palin’s relationship with the McCain staffers. Supposedly, they had a strained relationship. Fox News’ Carl Cameron, in his reporting has not “named names” and for this he gets to be in my dog house today. I expect better from reporters like Cameron, who has allowed the anger of the losing McCain staffers to creep into his reporting. Quite possibly, Cameron has been on the campaign trail just a little too long.

The McCain campaign staffers who are attacking Palin anonymously are losers in more than one way. Besides running what most are calling a terrible campaign, the junk they are throwing out after the loss is nothing but sour grapes. It’s juvenile. It doesn’t do anybody any good.

A big question someone should ask is, “Where is John McCain on this issue?” One would expect McCain to step up like the honorable man he has been and call for these crybabies to stop it. We’re waiting.

If there were problems with Sarah Palin, the only people to blame were the insiders who vetted her and John McCain. As for Sarah Palin, she has remained classy in her response to these stories. Classy is not something we can call Carl Cameron from Fox News and the McCain staffers who are feeding him this garbage.

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