I can’t speak in regards to what the media thinks privately, but I’ve had many a correspondence with lefties who do believe that Palin should’ve aborted Trig. Anyway, probably not the best thing to say in front of an audience that predominately watches MSNBC and CNN. Now he’s claiming, as many-a-lefty does when he or she says something out of line, that it’s a botched joke.
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.”…
About 500 people were in the room, and some walked out.
He shouldn’t have said it. But the left also shouldn’t pretend that it doesn’t have members in its ranks that think Palin should’ve aborted Trig.
by Stephan Tawney on Tue, Nov 11, 2008