Barone: Media wanted Palin abortion

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15527.html

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roomful of academics erupted in angry boos Tuesday morning after political analyst Michael Barone said journalists trashed Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republicans' vice presidential nominee, because "she did not abort her Down syndrome baby."

Barone said in an e-mail that he "was attempting to be humorous and ... went over the line."

Barone was speaking at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, to the 121st annual meeting of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, which calls itself the nation’s oldest higher-education association.

“The liberal media attacked Sarah Palin because she did not abort her Down syndrome baby," Barone said, according to accounts by attendees. "They wanted her to kill that child. ... I'm talking about my media colleagues with whom I've worked for 35 years.”

these people have serious mental health issues

walked out. I don't see how that was supposedly humorous.

gtfo

It was a hard decision for her that she did not take lightly. But unlike Palin she did not have free government health care, and a paid staff of household help to pay for the enormous expense of caring for a DS child.

Maybe if we had national health care in this country she would have made another choice.