Sarah Palin and the Huffington Smear

Just in case you thought The Huffington Post was somehow more respectable than The Daily Kos, take a look at these tawdry smears of Sarah Palin vomited forth by Arianna’s lackeys on Friday:

Sarah Palin is a villainous thief and lying, contemptuous racist. She hates Rosa Parks and she hates you too. She is a Buchananite and an extremist with radical separatist ties who unlike Obama didn’t write her speech. She is both anti-science and anti-knowledge and amounts to nothing more than an empty distraction with a soap opera life.

All of that is just from the posts linked from the front page of HuffPo. There aren’t enough hours in the day to address the the rank invective and outright lies that dominate the reader comments.

And you know who else has written for The Huffington Post? Why yes, Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

September 6, 2008 · Filed Under Election 2008, Liberal Absurdity, Sarah Palin

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Now Imaginary Friends Are Weighing In On Sarah Palin

Yesterday columnist Froma Harrop shared a fanciful tale of her dinner with a “Republican-leaning independent who was despondent” over the Palin VP nomination. This “friend” was a McCain supporter who said that

all she could now see was that picture of Palin’s pregnant 17-year-old looking defiant and stupid as she held mom’s fifth baby.

Classy, Harrop. Classy.

Harrop’s imaginary friend then offered this gem:

Don’t they have birth control up in Alaska?

No, Froma. I reckon up in Alaska they’re too busy fantasizing about indoor plumbing and nailing their cousins to worry about birth control.

But that’s okay – if Obama has his way they’ll have infanticide, and that’s really the next best thing.

cartoon: Glenn McCoy

By the way, unwed father David Letterman also questioned the availability of Trojans in Alaska, and wondered why Sarah Palin didn’t have “the presence of mind to have chatted to her teenaged kids for five minutes about birth control.” Apparently humor is now above Letterman’s pay grade. Luckily Dr. Phil was there to school him on the limits of parental influence in the lives of teens.

September 5, 2008 · Filed Under Election 2008, Liberal Absurdity, Sarah Palin