Sarah Palin

You know I’m not a fan of Sarah Palin. We may share common values. We may share common principals. But I want people in government who can manage. She hasn’t shown me any evidence that she can manage. I want to see a steady evidence of repeatable success. Can she manage time? Conduct a meeting? Build consensus? Mediate disagreements? Hire good people? Make tough decisions? Make the right decision with incomplete data? Avoid waste? Detect fraud? Detect bias? All of these traits and much more make up management. MANAGEMENT!!! It’s important—dang it.

So as you can see, I’m a long way from leading a parade for Sarah Palin.

But here’s the issue I want to bring up…why does the Associated Press devote 11 reporters to fact check her book? They went out of their way to NOT fact check Obama, Clinton, Biden or Ted Kenney’s books. How about fact checking Al Gore’s global warming or the jobs created by Obama’s stimulus bill?

I agree with Sarah’s comment, “11 AP reporters dedicating time and resources to tearing up the book, instead of using the time and resources to ‘fact check’ what’s going on with Sheik Mohammed’s trial, Pelosi’s health care takeover costs, Hasan’s associations, etc. Amazing.”

I have been observing the media’s liberal bias for twenty years. For almost a decade I received daily emails from media watchdog group MRC. What we have seen in the last twelve months is extraordinary. I hope American’s can see what is going on and will run everything they read, see and hear through a liberal filter.

PS. Reading my comments on the importance of management experience may lead someone to think I’m priming or stumping for Mitt Romney. Let me just say that though Mitt’s management experience is extraordinary, I am completely unimpressed by his history of shifting positions. Deep down I don’t believe he is a Conservative.