Michael Barone

This is bizarre: The conservative pundit Michael Barone, a Fox News Channel habitue as well as the editor of the Almanac of American Politics, told attendees of a higher-education convention yesterday, and we quote:
“The liberal media attacked Sarah Palin because she did not abort her Down syndrome baby… They wanted her to kill that child. [...]

The 2008 Almanac of American Politics has finally arrived!  If you’ve never read the almanac before, it’s a doozie:  weighing in at over 1,800 pages and a list price of $74.95, it contains detailed profiles of every current governor, congressperson and senator in the United States.

In his introduction, principal author Michael Barone makes the observation [...]