Head for cover! John McCain attacks!

Okay! So I take back what I said about I said about the BCC being down the middle. You learn in any basic journalism class that you say what you mean. Avoid emotionally charged words-- unless you mean them. I've been keeping my browser on www.bbc.co.uk, watching the headlines fly by. Today, the headline of the website read,

"McCain attacks media over Palin"

Really? Attacks, does he? Apparently, the GOP candidate speared some guy holding a pencil and paper for hounding his campaign about not thoroughly researching his VP candidate. Hmm. Wait! No? They released a statement condemning the media for questioning the process in which he picked his VP. It was a statement? You mean the senator didn't hit anyone? Or body slam the guy with the camera?

It couldn't be that he did research and accepts that his VP candidate doesn't live the perfect life. Maybe she doesn't like her ex-brother-in-law. Maybe she has a teenage daughter who is sexually active. Maybe she has a child that has Down syndrome. Maybe she's an American mom, who deals with life.

The BBC later went on to say that her husband, Todd, was part of a group that thought about seceeding from the union, and also that she has hired a lawyer in the case of 'trooper-gate'. Both of these would require little effort on the part of the journalist to get the full story. Instead, the BBC will leave it at that, making it appear that Palin is guilty of some crime, or that her husband doesn't support America. Anyone familiar with politics knows that the lawyer is probably a technicality, and that her husband would not allow or encourage his son to join the miltary if he didn't want to be part of the United States of America.

I hope to see how things play out over the weekend, especially AFTER Sarah Palin speaks tonight at the RNC.