FNC Analyst Calls Out 60 Minutes for Palin Obsession, Ignoring Reid

What happens when a planned leak of a salacious detail (Sarah Palin couldn’t remember Biden’s name!) gets shadowed by a more salacious tidbit (Harry Reid referring to Obama’s non-negro dialect)? Viewers question your reasoning behind the piece. FNC’s Eric Shawn noticed that 60 Minutes aired an exclusive interview with Game Change authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann last night, and Palin was effectively the focus of the piece, with no mention of the Reid comment.

Sources close to the marketing and promotional campaign of Game Change have told Mediaite that the leak of the Palin story was a calculated move to get the media attention for the book. But as advance copies were released, numerous details super-ceded this, which somehow and effectively rendered the 60 Minutes story old before it aired.

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