Why the media, the Left, and the nutroots hate Sarah Palin
Why does the cultural Left hate Sarah Palin so much?
Mona Charen has it exactly right.
The answer, in four simple words: she didn't abort Trig.
That decision is a stinging affront to a subculture which tries to tell itself that having pre-natal Down's Syndrome ought to be a capital offense. And it's a resounding rebuke to a great many people for whom it is an article of faith that their convenience is more sacred than the life of an innocent, unborn child.
Add to that the way the electorate seems to have taken to Sarah Palin, and it's not hard to understand why the cultural Left is tearing its hair out. Add the approbation of the electorate for Palin, and the Left's collective guilty conscience must be driving it crazy.
BTW, I was really, really disappointed to learn that Andrew Sullivan was behind one of the scuzziest pieces of political slander in modern history: the silly and malicious lie that it was really Palin's seventeen year old daughter who is Trig's mother, and that Palin is merely covering up for her.
Decent people all over the political spectrum were rightly up in arms a few years ago when Rush Limbaugh- in love with the sound of his own voice, and not listening to what it was saying at the moment- talked himself into a corner in which he found himself already having implied, and no longer able to gracefully avoid saying, that Socks was the White House cat and that Chelsea Clinton was the White House dog. To cut Rush a little slack, I could almost hear the shock and embarassment in his voice when he realized what he had blundered into having all but said.
Ms. Clinton, who has blossomed into a lovely young lady indeed, was an adolescent girl at the time, with the fragile ego of all adolescent girls. She didn't need to have that said about her on national radio. You know. Sort of like a seventeen year old girl, already the unmarried and pregnant daughter of someone famous for disapproving of that sort of thing, suddenly reduced by implication to the role of serial slut just so that somebody could spread a politically motivated lie about her mom.
Take the scorn rightly heaped on Rush for that asinine incident, cube it, and I'd say you probably approximate the amount of contempt Andrew Sullivan deserves this time around. He deserves to be much more embarassed than Limbaugh was, in no small measure because he did it on purpose.
ADDENDUM: Apparently Sullivan has fallen uncharacteristically silent- other than an obscure German quotation which seems to hint at censorship.
I'd prefer, for the sake of whatever good opinion I once had of Mr. Sullivan, to think rather that it is shame.
Mona Charen has it exactly right.
The answer, in four simple words: she didn't abort Trig.
That decision is a stinging affront to a subculture which tries to tell itself that having pre-natal Down's Syndrome ought to be a capital offense. And it's a resounding rebuke to a great many people for whom it is an article of faith that their convenience is more sacred than the life of an innocent, unborn child.
Add to that the way the electorate seems to have taken to Sarah Palin, and it's not hard to understand why the cultural Left is tearing its hair out. Add the approbation of the electorate for Palin, and the Left's collective guilty conscience must be driving it crazy.
BTW, I was really, really disappointed to learn that Andrew Sullivan was behind one of the scuzziest pieces of political slander in modern history: the silly and malicious lie that it was really Palin's seventeen year old daughter who is Trig's mother, and that Palin is merely covering up for her.
Decent people all over the political spectrum were rightly up in arms a few years ago when Rush Limbaugh- in love with the sound of his own voice, and not listening to what it was saying at the moment- talked himself into a corner in which he found himself already having implied, and no longer able to gracefully avoid saying, that Socks was the White House cat and that Chelsea Clinton was the White House dog. To cut Rush a little slack, I could almost hear the shock and embarassment in his voice when he realized what he had blundered into having all but said.
Ms. Clinton, who has blossomed into a lovely young lady indeed, was an adolescent girl at the time, with the fragile ego of all adolescent girls. She didn't need to have that said about her on national radio. You know. Sort of like a seventeen year old girl, already the unmarried and pregnant daughter of someone famous for disapproving of that sort of thing, suddenly reduced by implication to the role of serial slut just so that somebody could spread a politically motivated lie about her mom.
Take the scorn rightly heaped on Rush for that asinine incident, cube it, and I'd say you probably approximate the amount of contempt Andrew Sullivan deserves this time around. He deserves to be much more embarassed than Limbaugh was, in no small measure because he did it on purpose.
ADDENDUM: Apparently Sullivan has fallen uncharacteristically silent- other than an obscure German quotation which seems to hint at censorship.
I'd prefer, for the sake of whatever good opinion I once had of Mr. Sullivan, to think rather that it is shame.
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