Today the Ny Times eulogizes Geraldine Ferraro’s passing yesterday.

“If we can do this, we can do anything,” Ms. Ferraro declared on a July evening to a cheering Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. And for a moment, for the Democratic Party and for an untold number of American women, anything seemed possible: a woman occupying the second-highest office in the land, a derailing of the Republican juggernaut led by President Ronald Reagan, a President Walter F. Mondale.

It did not turn out that way — not by a long shot. After the roars in the Moscone Center had subsided and a fitful general election campaign had run its course, hopes for Mr. Mondale and his plain-speaking, barrier-breaking running mate were buried in a Reagan landslide.

But Ms. Ferraro’s supporters proclaimed a victory of sorts nonetheless: 64 years after women won the right to vote, a woman had removed the “men only” sign from the White House door.”

Well, the Reagan landslide aside – brutal as it was, the Ny Times had much to do with making sure that Ferraro didn’t get in the White House.

Fact is that the press did this also to Sarah Palin. True it’s the press’s job to dig into backgrounds and dig up dirt. They do it to male candidates as well. But never as hard and fast as they do when the candidate is female and especially when it’s to a high office.

The Ny Times may tout Ferraro as one who “ended the club of men’s politics”, but it was in fact the Ny Times along with the rest of the msm that made sure she went no farther than that.

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