From the Boston Herald, “Media Loves to Hate Sarah Palin” by Howie Carr Howie is something of a civic treasure up here in Boston – a great radio host and an even better writer. (His book on the Bulger Brothers is a tremendous read.) In this column, he hilariously documents the left’s various grievances against the unrepentant and worse still de classé moose murderer who John McCain threatens to put a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Why do the pampered poodles of the elite media loathe Sarah so much? Let’s go down the list. She’s only 44 years old. She’s just not seasoned enough – and if you don’t believe me, just ask Gloria Steinem, age 74, or Barbara Walters, age 78, or Sally Quinn, age 67, or Eleanor Clift, age 68, or Andrea Mitchell, age 61, or Gail Collins, age 62. Why, up on the stage, it has been noted that you can distinguish Sarah’s ankles from her calves. She’s never had a Botox injection. The hags of the Hamptons speak as one on this issue. Snow White Palin must be stopped. Anybody got a poisoned apple? How can she be qualified when she doesn’t have a single $1.2-million-a-year lobbyist in her family? How can she relate to “lunch-bucket” Americans the way lunch-bucket blowhard Joe Biden can? She admits smoking pot as a teenager, which sets a terrible example for the youth of America, unlike Barack Obama, who admits smoking pot as a teenager, and whose “refreshing candor” is a breath of fresh air after eight years of Cheney-Bush.
