In an un-linked sidebar to a Strib editorial full of platitudes about stomping out hate in the presidential campaign (which mentions the incidents involving a few overexcited people at the Lakeville rally last week, although nothing about the physical attacks, sexist defamation and economic threats  against Mac, Sarah and their supporters, and the media lynching of any who dare question The One, not that we expected the Strib to have an especially ecumenical definition of “hate”), the Strib runs this bit by “political media expert” Kathleen Hall Jamieson about Mac’s response in Lakeville:

 “The audience that expressed that needs to be told that’s not the way we campaign and treat the opposing candidate … McCain was slow to respond. He should be applauded for doing so, but he should have done it more quickly.”

“More quickly?”

Perhaps someone needs to do some metrics on the exact delay threshold between “treating the opponent well” and “condoning hatred”.  It’s not a picayune point, as anyone who’s had to “think on their feet” in front of a crowd can tell you.

Oh, yeah – the Strib didn’t see fit to tell anyone that Kathleen Hall Jamieson is “Policy Director” at the Annenberg Foundation.

Does that ring a bell with anyone?

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