McCain defends Palin against ‘media bias’

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) defended his former running mate Sarah Palin against alleged media bias.

The 2008 GOP presidential nominee tweeted:

A good perspective on media bias: http://bit.ly/8rJRy

McCain links to a Politics Daily piece entitled “Sarah ‘Barracuda’ Palin and the Piranhas of the Press.’

PD’s Senior Washington Correspondent Carl M. Cannon writes:

The mainstream media is undergoing its demise, drip by drip, day by day, and its practitioners, which include most of my friends in life, are under considerable pressure. In my opinion, however, these pressures do not excuse the treatment accorded Sarah Palin. On the contrary, to me the entire Sarah saga revealed that it wasn’t only the traditional media’s business model that is broken. Our journalism model is busted, too.

In the 2008 election, we took sides, straight and simple, particularly with regard to the vice presidential race. I don’t know that we played a decisive role in that campaign, and I’m not saying the better side lost. What I am saying is that we simply didn’t hold Joe Biden to the same standard as Sarah Palin, and for me, the real loser in this sordid tale is my chosen profession.

McCain previously defended Palin after her resignation after reports emerged that members of McCain’s campaign staff openly sparred with the Alaska governor on the trail.