Scrappy?

Tristero compares the New York Times' coverage of convention speeches by Palin & Biden:

In his opening paragraphs, John Broder wrote a nearly completely objective report of Biden's speech. Bumiller and Cooper used almost every possible rhetorical device they could pack in to two grafs to signal their support not only for Palin but also for the “scrappy, rebellious former prisoner of war in Vietnam whose campaign was resurrected from near-death a year ago.”