CBS Says Sarah Palin is Right about Media Bias!

It may be a sign of the coming Apocalypse!

Watch now for locust and plagues.

On the CBS.Com site, columnist John Friedman says Sarah Palin is right about a Media double standard in its coverage of her family.

Of course, the headline was a little snarky, "Sarah Palin is Right This Time." The "This Time" thrown in to emphasize the point that she has been wrong in the past in CBS.Com's "unbiased" opinion.

And the article is written, not by one of the CBS Washington reporters, but by a New York reporter who covers financial news. In other words, he is outside the inner circle of like minded political types at CBS who have deemed "Palin bad, Obama good" at their secret meetings.

I guarantee you that John Freidman is getting heat from his colleagues at CBS for two reasons. First, that he dared to write a political piece. Second, that he dared to say something good about Sarah Palin. They will have to resend him the memo.

But here is part of the article:

"The Alaska governor, who has become a punching bag for the media, has a fair point about the way we have apparently set up a double standard for covering her children and those of President-elect Barack Obama. The media's standard for Palin is designed to make her look like a backwoods rube and embarrass her at every turn.

In the process, the press has no compunction about making public figures out of Palin's kids, which is simply not fair.

Palin is on the mark when she contends that journalists should back off and give her family some deserved privacy. If reporters want to disparage Palin for what she said on the 2008 campaign trail and afterward, that's acceptable. She is fair game, as a public figure. But yes, let's leave her children (not to mention her newborn grandchild) out of it.

Obama and First Lady-to-be Michelle Obama have asked reporters to show respect to their situation by leaving their young girls alone so that they can acclimate to the daunting worlds of a new school, a new city in Washington, D.C., and especially their new home, the White House.

Obviously, that's an entirely reasonable request. And the media seem poised to honor it. Good for them. It's commendable to give children special protection. It's hard to imagine what kind of cauldron the Obama kids have stepped into, so I'm glad to see journalists letting the Obama girls have a little room to breathe.

It also says a lot, though, about how the media are eager to exploit Palin, who emerged from the shadows last summer to assume the public persona of Alaska's 21st Century incarnation of Annie Oakley. Palin and her handlers conjured up this indelible image throughout her failed run as vice president on the Republican ticket.

Palin is correct - to a point - that the appearance of a double standard says a lot 'about our society."

Now Friedman didn't go entirely off the CBS reservation. He did make fun of Palin for getting angry at the Tina Fey in the SNL skit when she said, "I believe marriage is a sacred bond between two unwilling teenagers."

Friedman writes, "Earth to Sarah: OF COURSE they exploited you - gleefully, as a matter of fact. Psst, you were really, really famous, you know.

But don't worry, Sarah. I never really believed Fey's hilarious suggestion that you could see Russia from your home."

Um, Earth to John Friedman. Sarah Palin has said before that she though the SNL bits were funny and she even appeared on the show.

She is being consistent in getting angry at a the one shot at her children. Bristol Palin was a target because SNL was getting their material from the same media reports you alleged to believe were out of bounds and unfair.

Sarah Palin is a Mother first and of course she would get angry at any perceived slight at her daughter and future son-in-law.

But, I understand, you had to find fault somewhere, even if it meant that you contradicted your own argument. After all, you have to keep your job at CBS.

You can read Freidman's entire article by clicking here.