Ignored scandals beget “phony scandals.”

◼ Sarah Palin: In 2008 the McCain campaign prohibited me from talking about Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers - Doug Powers/Michelle Malkin

2008 came and went, and perhaps as a result of such McCain campaign concern for “media perceptions,” Sarah Palin is back in Alaska while John McCain is still in Washington, D.C. helping out Obama and the Dems.

◼ PALIN: 'LAPDOG' MEDIA HELPING OBAMA 'RUN OUT THE CLOCK' ON SCANDALS - Tony Lee/Breitbart

"They are going to stick with it because they are part of the problem," she said of the media's enabling the Obama administration before, during, and after the scandals. Palin said the mainstream media's actions will be to the detriment of "professional journalism and the free America as we know it." Palin emphasized that many of these scandals have occurred because the media enabled Obama by becoming his lapdogs.

◼ When Did Obama Decide That The Scandals He Once Thought Were Serious Are Now ‘Phony’? - Noah Rothman /Mediaite