Liberals Keeping It Classy

Palin Derangement Syndrome is going into override. Richard Cohen in the Washington Post (Hat Tip: Campaign Spot.):

One of the great sights of American political life — a YouTube moment if ever there was one — was to see the doughboy face of Newt Gingrich as he extolled the virtues of Sarah Palin, a sitcom of a vice presidential choice and a disaster movie if she moves up to the presidency: “She’s the first journalist ever to be nominated, I think, for the president or vice president, and she was a sportscaster on local television,” Gingrich said on the “Today” show. “So she has a lot of interesting background. And she has a lot of experience. Remember that, when people worry about how inexperienced she is, for two years she’s been in charge of the Alaska National Guard.”

It’s a pity Gingrich was not around when the Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, better known by his nickname Caligula, reputedly named Incitatus as a consul and a priest. Incitatus was his horse.

Pardon me, but did Richard Cohen just compare Governor Palin to a Horse? Yes, I believe he did. National Organization for Women, where are you?

Meanwhile, Ed Schultz was showing himself the epitome of enlightened thinking:

Liberal radio host Ed Schultz was telling listeners Monday that Palin was an “empty pantsuit” who had set off a “bimbo alert.”

(Hat Tip: Campaign Spot.)

Of course, many liberals aren’t stupid enough to mouth off on the record. However, as Rob Dreher pointed out,  there are some journalists with misogyny who will be far quieter about it:

Earlier, I got into a slightly heated conversation with a black male big-city journalist who describes himself as a Republican. He hates the Palin choice. Absolutely despises it.

“Let’s face it, she’s white trash,” he said.

Excuse me?

“She’s trailer trash.” He then went on a tear about Bristol Palin, and brought up things about Sarah Palin that have already been debunked, or were flat-out lies. He concluded by confiding that women are bad news — especially black women — and that all they really want is to use men sexually (the language he used was rather more colorful) to get ahead in life. This is how he came to father a child out of wedlock years ago, he explained.

If one thing, perhaps at the end of this election we can bury the idea that somehow misogyny or racism is limited to a single party or ideology.