Sarah Palin and Caroline Kennedy-Schlossberg certainly come from different social classes, but that has nothing to do with the well deserved pillorying she got in the press. Her own words hanged her. She could not answer basic questions (no knowledge of the Supreme Court, could not name the rights and duties of the person occupying the office she sought, could not identify the the foreign policy under which we are currently operating, could not name a single periodical), she spoke in word salads, and she exacerbated the situation by making snide remarks about others.

For someone who has such trouble with class bias, Palin is notably untroubled about the Bush family. They have occupied spots in the best schools, powerful places in the government, start up funds for mostly failed businesses, on the strength of their personal wealth and names. Why didn't Palin complain about the blatant nepotism with which Bush got into Yale, Harvard (two schools in the Ivy League, a group of schools she has denounced), the governor's chair of Texas, and eventually the Oval Office. His track record in life has only exemplified his ineptitude, but his name and wealth kept on elevating him in life. I never heard her make a peep about this. I need one of her defenders on this issue to come out and defend her.

In this same interview, Palin complained about how Obama's family was not scrutinized by the press, but hers was. She did not take into account that his children are not even ten and his wife largely stayed off the campaign trail, but anyway. I would have had a lot more respect for Palin's "remarks" on this issue had she taken into account that if Obama had an unwed, pregnant, high school dropout for a daughter that the press and the Republicans would have been howling about how his was a family emblematic of black promiscuity and irresponsibility, whereas her daughter was celebrated for it. Had she acknowledged the pass she got on this issue because of race and party affiliation, I would take her more seriously.

Two final points: why is Palin so concerned with the business of New York when she made Manhattan a whipping post in her stump speeches and why is she trying to keep up interest in the media she supposedly hates? She does not like New York's most populous city or its residents. Further, how we select our replacements for our Senators is none of her business. Why didn't she make a move to intervene when Ted Stevens defiantly held onto his seat despite being convicted of seven felonies? She is governor of Alaska, but she is inserting herself into our business. As for her clamoring for the spotlight, she has no credibility on this one either. She is increasingly desperate to see herself on television, to kick up dust about herself, stay a subject on the internet, and remain a subject of newspaper articles, but she says she hates the media. We all need to end our toxic, co-dependent relationship now.

You didn't know that only Democrats or liberals get called out for being "intolerant" or "mean" when they say something nasty? Ann Coulter was just being bold when she called John Edwards a faggot. The guy running trying to get elected to the RNC chair was just being "lighthearted" when he released the "Barack the Magic Negro" song. The head of a California Republican committee was mistaken when she sent out a flier with Obama's face on a food stamp that was redeemable for watermelons, fried chicken, ribs, and Kool Aid. Calling people terrorists, Arabs (as if it is bad), being proud of audiences who call for the killing of a rival candidate, using a man's middle name as a slur, and race baiting is all just fair vetting of a guy who wants to be president. Calling gay people pedophiles and comparing their relationships to bestiality is just fair expression of a person's religious beliefs and if you question the civility of it, you are a bigot.

I hope I have cleared up the short version of the Right-Wing Book of Manners. Calling someone a jerk is perfectly fine, even refined, when you consider it alongside the previously mentioned comments.