The Ny Slimes gives it their bestest Obama shot tho:

“The 2007 state fair was days away when Alaska’s public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, took another call about one of his troopers, Michael Wooten. This time, the director of Gov. Sarah Palin’s Anchorage office was on the line.

As Mr. Monegan recalls it, the aide said the governor had heard that Trooper Wooten was assigned to work the kickoff to the fair in late August. If so, Mr. Monegan should do something about it, because Ms. Palin was also planning to attend and did not want him nearby.

Somewhat bewildered, Mr. Monegan soon determined that Trooper Wooten had indeed volunteered for duty at the fairgrounds — in full costume as “Safety Bear,” the troopers’ child-friendly mascot.

Two years earlier, the trooper and the governor’s sister had been embroiled in a nasty divorce and child-custody battle that had hardened the Palin family against him. To Mr. Monegan and several top aides, the state fair episode was yet another example of a fixation that the governor and her husband, Todd, had with Trooper Wooten and the most granular details of his life.

“I thought to myself, ‘Man, do they have a heavy-duty network and focus on this guy,’ ” Mr. Monegan said. “You’d call that an obsession.”

On July 11, Ms. Palin fired Mr. Monegan, setting off a politically charged scandal that has become vastly more so since Ms. Palin became the Republican vice-presidential nominee.

By now, the outlines of the matter have been widely reported. Mr. Monegan believes he was ousted because he would not bow to pressure to dismiss Trooper Wooten. The Alaska Legislature is investigating the firing and whether the governor abused the powers of her office to pursue a personal vendetta. Its report is due Friday.

Ms. Palin has denied that anyone told Mr. Monegan to dismiss Trooper Wooten, or that the commissioner’s ouster had anything to do with him. But an examination of the case, based on interviews with Mr. Monegan and several top aides, indicates that, to a far greater degree than was previously known, the governor, her husband and her administration pressed the commissioner and his staff to get Trooper Wooten off the force, though without directly ordering it.

In all, the commissioner and his aides were contacted about Trooper Wooten three dozen times over 19 months by the governor, her husband and seven administration officials, interviews and documents show.

“To all of us, it was a campaign to get rid of him as a trooper and, at the very least, to smear the guy and give him a desk job somewhere,” said Kim Peterson, Mr. Monegan’s special assistant, who like several other aides spoke publicly about the matter for the first time.”

Oh, cry me a river. In all of this the media has lapped after a partisen witch hunt in Alaska that incidentally was begun by an Obama supporting State Senator, Hollis French, who is *SURPRISE* the long time friend of Walt Monegan who as canned by Palin. None of which is mentioned in the story.

Yet even more egregious is that in all that lapping the true character of this bad cop has been glossed over.

But Officer “Friendly Bear” was investigated by his own department and it’s a matter of fact that:

• Wooten used a Taser on his [10 year-old] stepson.
• He illegally shot a moose.
• He drank beer in his patrol car on one occasion.
• He told others his father-in-law would “eat a f’ing lead bullet” if he helped his daughter get an attorney for the divorce.

Whether Wooten denies it or not matters not, he did it, it’s a matter of record. Secondly the Slimes glosses over the most disturbing charge:

“In one instance, she said he made a death threat against her father in 2005, an accusation that the trooper has denied.”

Again he can deny all he wants. He’s lying, but the 400 plus page report states the charge was “sustained”, meaning - for liberals - he did it.

So here’s the issue. The fact is that nothing in the this story tells us anything else we don’t know, but it tells us volumes about how far the media will descend into moral bankruptcy, going after Palin as the villian and treating Wooten - a child abusing bad cop - as a hero.

How in the world they think this will help Obama is anyone’s guess. But I doubt they’ll get much sympathy from women, especially those who have been the victims of domestic violence and abuse.