NBC/MSNBC News: Despicable Character Assassins

NBC News and MSNBC have devolved from journalists into despicable character assassins. Readers of SHS and others will recall the fraudulent story pushed by the Left Web site the Daily Kos. Someone doctored a photo of the Palin family taken in 2006, and claimed it was from early 2008. Because Bristol Palin, the Palins’ oldest daughter, had a small tummy, the Kos claimed she was pregnant at the time and hence, the real mother of Trig Palin.

This despicable lie was actually chased by MSM journalists with the tongues hanging out until it became clear that it was bogus. Vanity Fair even insinuated, in the guise of satire, that Todd Palin was not Trigg’s father after the Bristol story fell apart. Meanwhile, despite the NYT knocking it down eventually, blogger Andrew Sullivan, as far as I know, never did give up the story.

Well, now NBC/MSNBC have snidely brought the lie up again. From the story:

There’s been plenty of speculation that Levi Johnston, the father of Tripp, Sarah Palin’s first acknowledged grandchild, has been giving interviews to the likes of Larry King and Tyra Banks so that he can land an endorsement or modeling deal. Vanity Fair did some poking about to see whether a modeling contract could be in Johnston’s future, and the prospects look bleak.

Get it? “first acknowledged grandchild:” Wink. Wink.

This isn’t journalism, it is character assassination by innuendo. But why do they loathe her so much that they will continue this defamation? My theory: She dared to give birth to a baby with Down syndrome when all the better people know that eugenic abortion is the way to go.

Whatever the cause, NBC/MSNBC illustrate all that has gone wrong with journalism today.