And are fighting back! Good for them. The MSM is so overplaying this that there is going to be a very strong backlash. Just image if an incident in your family was covered in the same way, would you be able to withstand the scrutiny? They don’t understand that many of us can relate to what the Palin’s are going through because we all go through similar incident. Maybe not the exact same thing but we have private issues that we wouldn’t want the world to focus on and examine in all it’s gory detail. Those of use with teenagers know that they don’t always listen to us and even when we warn them, they wind up making the mistakes that we warned them about. I’m sure that the press isn’t really thinking about that 800,000 teenagers get pregnant each year and that there are many families that started because the mom got pregnant as a teenager (including the Democratic nominee for president).Just because Palin is a candidate for public office doesn’t give the press the right to demand that she answer personal questions about her kids. Look at some of the things they’re asking:

Sen. John McCain’s top campaign strategist accused the news media Tuesday of being “on a mission to destroy” Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin by displaying “a level of viciousness and scurrilousness” in pursuing questions about her personal life.In an extraordinary and emotional interview, Steve Schmidt said his campaign feels “under siege” by wave after wave of news inquiries that have questioned whether Palin is really the mother of a 4-month-old baby, whether her amniotic fluid had been tested and whether she would submit to a DNA test to establish the child’s parentage.Arguing that the media queries are being fueled by “every rumor and smear” posted on left-wing Web sites, Schmidt said mainstream journalists are giving “closer scrutiny” to McCain’s little-known running mate than to Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

They’re demanding a DNA test for her own baby? Are they kidding? Why would she have to prove she’s the mother of her own child when the reporter who interviewed her while pregnant has said that she was clearly pregnant and here’s the picture to prove it:

And why would they want to know if the fluid had been tested? To determine if she knew ahead of time if she had a downs syndrome child? So that she could abort?This is the woman that’s running for VP, don’t you think they might want to ask her more relevant questions? How about her views on some of the issues related to the office?I’m glad the Republicans are pushing back, they shouldn’t take this kind of crap from the media and should let them know it. Schmidt and the rest of the McCain campaign should be clear that they won’t tolerate these kinds of invasive questions and should fight back when these types of allegations are made.The McCain camp isn’t the only one getting ticked by the press. Here’s Newt defending Palin and asking the reporter to name one accomplishment of Obama (the reporter smartly choose to bail and sending it back to Olberman): (via)It is clear that the press has a higher standard for women then they do for men. They didn’t hammer Obama for his lack of experience but they certainly hammered Clinton and now here they are hammering Palin. The more they push, the more obvious their bias and the more resolved we are to vote for the ticket and the harder some of us will work for this campaign.BTW, this sounds like wishful thinking:

Perhaps Senator McGovern should not have deserted Tom Eagleton. Perhaps Senator McCain should stick by Governor Palin. But if he does soldier on with her by his side for a while, will he end up having to call another midget convention like the one that had to be cobbled together to nominate Sargent Shriver? That is hardly in his best interests.Perhaps Governor Palin, realizing that and trying to minimize her own humiliation in coming days, should withdraw before she is nominated and let Senator McCain turn again to one of his more experienced options.

Minimize her own humiliation? What a crock of crap! She has nothing to be humiliated about. It’s the media that’s being humiliated here and they don’t even know it. Their elitism has been widely on display and it’s not very attractive. What that quote makes clear is that it’s the media that hasn’t vetted her and doesn’t really know who she is. Maybe they should pay heed to those who do:

Listening to the Democratic leadership respond to John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate, one hears echoes of the Alaska Republican leadership from just a few years ago. Barack Obama’s spokesman, Bill Burton, put it this way: “Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.” Former mayor? If you’re going to skip over her job as governor and, before that, her job heading the commission that oversees production of the largest petroleum reserves in America, why not “former high school student”? Bah, what does it matter: She’s just a small town mayor, just a hockey mom, just a beauty pageant queen. Palin has never shunned these belittling monikers, in part, I imagine, because the camouflage has served her so well. Soothed by the litany, her opponents tend to sleep too late, sneer too much, and forget who it is that hires them. […]What the Republicans missed about Sarah Palin then–and what the Democrats seem poised to miss now–is that she is a true political savant; a candidate with a knack for identifying the key gripes of the populace and packaging herself as the solution. That keen political nose has enabled her to routinely outperform her resume. Nearly two years into her administration, she still racks up approval ratings of 80 per cent or better. It’s clear she isn’t a shrinking flower who will be wilted by the onslaught of the press. If she can take on the Republican establishment, she can take on the press.

And maybe before people compare her to Eagleton, they might want to keep in mind how much money and enthusiasm has greeted her pick by McCain. Did McGovern have that? I doubt McCain would be that clueless as to get rid of someone who is this popular with the base.