I Hate Reality TV, So I'm Gonna Watch The Fiction Of Sarah Palin's Speech.

From the AP:

Sarah Palin prepared for the speech of her life Wednesday as John McCain's campaign called for an end to questions about its review of her background and derided a "faux media scandal designed to destroy the first female Republican nominee" for vice president.

As GOP leaders lined up to defend her, the first-term Alaska governor took a tour of the Xcel Energy Center stage where she will accept the No. 2 nomination. A few hours later, she and her family met McCain on an airport tarmac as he arrived in the convention city.

The Arizona senator's campaign set the tone for the day early with a written statement that stood out for its admission that Palin is under siege -- it condemned "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

"This nonsense is over," senior campaign adviser Steve Schmidt declared in the statement, lashing out at "the old boys' network" that he says runs media organizations. "The McCain campaign will have no further comment about our long and thorough process," Schmidt said.

Schmidt, of course, is a Karl Rove acolyte, who, of course, was a Lee Atwater groupie.

Atwater brought us the race-baiting Willie Horton commercial from Bush 41's 1988 campaign, and Rove helped spread false stories in Bush 43's 2000 South Carolina primary fight with John McCain. 

Those stories included lies about McCain's adopted daughter from Bangladesh, hinting she was his illegitimate black child.

So "DoubleTalk" made sure to cozy up with these guys this time.   

Schmidt and Rove are card-carrying members of the "old boys' network" that gave us Bush/Cheney, the Swift Boating of John Kerry, and the political firings of U.S. justices. 

The mainstream media was AWOL during the run-up to the Iraq War, and is a shell of its former self.

But asking questions about this VP neophyte is out of bounds? 

"The Vet" may have skimped on his vetting, but he doesn't think you have the right to know.