It's the media's fault

God damn you American newsmedia, you've done it again. You're the reason the Palin announcement has bombed.

"This nonsense is over," declared senior campaign adviser Steve Schmidt in a written statement.

The statement stood out for its admission that Palin is under siege _ it condemns "this vetting controversy" _ and for its attempt to blunt questions about how rigorously McCain and his campaign explored the background of a candidate who may get the nation's second most powerful job. It also suggested that Palin is a victim of gender bias in the media.

"The McCain campaign will have no further comment about our long and thorough process," Schmidt said, lashing out at "the old boys' network" that he says runs media organizations.

That's right media. How dare you make McCain pick his candidate ofter one 15 minute talk a few years ago and then a quick interview the day before the announcement. John McCain had six months to choose his VP from the time he locked up the nomination and you ruined it all with you hasty selection of Palin for him. The way you hid the pregnant daughter from him, the ethics charges you drummed up against Palin in Alaska. Your childish lies that she was against earmarks and the Bridge to Nowhere, when you knew damn well she requested the highest amount of earmarked dollars per citizen in the entire US and supported the shit out of the Bridge. Then you invented some reformer image for her and then grilled perplexed members of the McCain team about it. Of course they couldn't name one damn thing, you invented the story!

Hang your head low. You are trying to destroy this woman simply by reporting things she has said and done. You disgust me with your sexism, class warfare, and a new form of white racism. Your continual attempt to provide a timeline for the pick, ask questions, talk to people who had knowledge of the vetting process, and use John's and the campaign's seeming confusion at every revelation to concoct some sort of story of lax to nonexistant vetting is sickening to the ghost of Edward R. Murrow. This was the greatest vetting process in the history of man. Furthermore, John McCain knew of all of these problems, some you aren't even aware of (two words: gorilla jousting), and picked her anyway. So there.

Stop trying to harm this candidate by recounting facts to a wide audience of people who have no idea who she is. They're begging you. Angrily. It's your fault. Not theirs.