This is advocacy journalism that takes a viewpoint and expounds upon it, in this case, how Sarah Palin has generated funds for a Kerry/swiftboat like campaign targeted at Barack Obama. That said, there are fact-checkable statistics to support some of the authors' claims. For instance, the report does make a factual case about the Christian right supporting President Bush and helping him win the last election. But again, this type of article is meant to reaffirm the perspective of its target audience and so cannot be as balanced as other news reports about the same topic, such as a link below from the McClatchy bureau.

The story of the money flows for christian character assassination ads is an oblique tribute to Palin.

This opinion piece has minimal journalistic merit. It is a typical smear attack from the far left, full of innuendos, but low in accuracy and having no balance at all. The author is ignorant about the Swift Boat ads, which are considered by experts as models of accuracy: in fact Kerry has yet to disprove any of the major allegations. He does not mention the hundreds of anti-McCain and anti-Palin articles that have run in the Democratic Party media. The amount of money being spent by Democratic operatives in Alaska alone dwarfs all the money tallied up in this piece.