Palin Exposes Misogyny In The Democratic Base, Again (from Legal Insurrection):
Writing-on-hand-gate reminds me of one of the reasons Sarah Palin was put on this earth: To bring out and expose the worst misogynistic impulses in the hard core of the Democratic base.
I'm not talking about criticism or mockery of the handwritten notes. That's fair game. Considering all the grief we give the teleprompter-addicted-won, who are we to complain?
I'm talking about the impulse in the Democratic base to use a non-sexual situation to sexualize and demean a female politician. Hillary had to deal with it. And there is a long history of sexist treatment of Palin, including the Newsweek cover last November.
Today, the story was a play on Palin giving a "hand job":
TMZ - Sarah Palin's Hand Gets Job Done
Democratic Underground - I say we call it the "Sarah Palin Hand Job"
DailyKos - Sunday Talks Liveblog--Sarah Palin Hand Job Edition
There's also plenty of play on Twitter for the "Palin hand job" theme. Blue Lyon has collected some foul comments from popular "progressive" blogs and forums, and sums it up with this:
Way to go progs. The “Progressive” blogosphere needs to get their heads out of their junior high asses (no offense meant to junior high kids) and get smart. But I am not holding my breath.
The Democratic base has revealed itself once again. Thanks Sarah.
Read the rest with screen shots of the lefties disgusting tweets (see orginal for links to above articles/posts): http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/02/palin-exposes-mysogyny-in-democratic.html
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