Jason Rosenbaum

MSNBC’s Chuck Todd is certainly doing his bit to expose the tired "liberal media" myth as the lie that it is.  During the 2008 presidential campaign, Todd admitted that he and his establishment media buddies were letting McCain "get away with" false claims about national security because everyone knows McCain is so darned experienced.  Todd conceded at the time that if Obama or Clinton made a similar misstatement, the media would be on them like tea partiers on Sarah Palin.

It turns out that there is a media double standard–but it’s one that benefits right-wingers.  Even as Sarah Palin rails against the insidious liberal media that’s out to get her, Chuck Todd has her back.

Palin got caught using crib notes scrawled on the palm of her hand — ironically, during a speech when she mocked Obama for using a teleprompter.  On MSNBC this morning, Andrea Mitchell called attention to Palin’s latest effort to demonstrate her lack of qualifications to serve even as junior high school class president, and Chuck Todd tried to move past the trainwreck, muttering that "we’ve all done notes."  Indeed we have.  Palin recently compared herself to George Washington, who surely had his own crib notes at Valley Forge or when crossing the Delaware.

Todd was forced to back down from his courageous efforts to defend Palin against the latest unfair liberal media onslaught–he ultimately admitted that Palin "has different rules", just like her former running mate.  How long will it take Todd to realize that he’s helping to enforce those different rules when he tries to pretend it’s no big deal that supposed presidential hopeful Palin needs to write notes on her hands, like some unprepared high school student, in order to remember her vacuous talking points?