On September 24, The Cable Gamer noted that CNN's Campbell Brown had engineered a significant shift for herself. Once seen as a pretty but bland anchor of no particular distinction, she launched into a rant on her show: "Free Sarah Palin," she proclaimed, as if the spunky Alaska governor was, in fact, any sort of prisoner. As we all saw Thursday night, John McCain's running mate is plenty free to say what she thinks. As TCG noted at the time, Brown's rant was merely a semi-clever way of attracting attention--posing as a defender of Palin, while really being a basher of Palin, and her candidacy.
Advantage: Democrats.
But why should Brown worry about what the The Cable Gamer thinks, when she got a big fat reward in The New York Times? The Times' TV guy, Jacques Steinberg, took down everything that Brown said at face value, portraying her newfound liberalism as merely an upsurge in brave truth-telling.
Yeah sure. When Brown bashes Barack Obama, that will be brave.
