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Say what you want about Sarah Palin, but her very presence has absolutely unhinged some quarters of the media. Cintra Wilson has this measured take in Salon:

Sarah Palin is a bit comical, like one of those cutthroat Texas cheerleader stage moms. What her Down syndrome baby and pregnant teenage daughter unequivocally prove, however, is that her most beloved child is the antiabortion platform that ensures her own political ambitions with the conservative right. The throat she’s so hot to cut is that of all American women.

I don’t want Sarah Palin being the representative leader and custodian of my rights, my Constitution and my country any more than I want polygamist compound leader Warren Jeffs baby-sitting for my preteen goddaughters.

As a woman who does not believe what Palin believes, the thought of such an opportunistic anti-female in the White House — in the Cheney chair, no less — is akin to ideological brain rape. What this Republican blowup doll does with her own insides in accord with her own faith is her business. But, like the worst and most terrifying of religious extremists, she seems very comfortable with the idea of imposing her own views on everyone else.

Cute. Why the venom? For the same reason that liberals spewed outrage at Clarence Thomas, I think there is the knee-jerk feeling that member of any so-called minority class who does not pay slobbering fealty to liberal minority class fetishism represents the purest form of ideological evil.

But that’s another issue. For all the talk about Karl Rove’s Terminator-like “Republican Attack/Hate Machines” I’ve never seen anything as remotely disparaging of Barack Obama coming from any major-ish media outlet. Sure, there are nutcase, deranged and vile right wing blogs and forums to match tit-for-tat with the likes of Daily Kos and democratic Underground. But where is the comparable hate in the virtual pages of National Review or Weekly Standard? Ann Coulter is tame in comparison to this kind of sex-and-violence-themed vitriol.

Granted there is no Salon equivalent on the right, but that hardly seems like an argument in the liberal media’s favor.

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