your post and those calling Palin the "c" word are worthless.

they say more about you than anything anyone might say about Palin. Are you a republican in drag?

You. Don't. Speak. For. Me. Got it, flyboy?

Apparently you speak for your wife -- who apparently can't fight her own battles. Telling for both sides of your marriage -- but not so good as a recommendation for why you speak for women -- or why women need you to speak for them.

I saw all articles when they came out. Unlike your wife, I think for myself. I saw nothing male politicians aren't expected to bear up under and nothing Hillary didn't have to carry four times over.

The right tried very hard during the last election to use a newly embraced and quite faux feminism to divide the center and right so an extreme rightwing minority could continue to rule. It. Didn't. Work. Are you still missing that point? The whole "gotcha" of the Palin nomination was the lame idea women would vote for another woman -- even one who did not represent them and their interests. Women did not play the game and en masse defect from the Democratic pary. Give it up already!

The most misogynic behaviors? Refusing to listen to women. Defining women instead of letting women define themselves. Telling women how they feel or how they should feel. Hiding behind women. Using women instead of cooking your own meals, scrubbing your own toilet, fighting your own dammed political battles.

You are the biggest misogynist I've met in some time.

If you don't start qualifying your writing to make it clear you don't speak for women everywhere, every damned time you post I will copy and paste this: @virtue001 -- You. Don't Speak. For. Me.

I certainly don’t pretend to speak for women everywhere or for all feminists. To do so is not only wrong, but wildly foolhardy and presumes that women won’t slap you for it. Trust me, they will. I speak for myself. Try to follow that excellent example.

Ja, I will [ɷ].

Hey bro' I was in 'Nam too but I can't remember any of us being there to defend American free speech.I'm not ashamed of having served but it was a civil and we were backing a loser.There's a plaque at our local post office thanking Viet Nam and Korean War vets for fighting for our freedoms.Well fight we did but with all of our good intentions,that wasn't what it was about.Like I say,there's nothing to be ashamed of but let's not trump it up like we were at Valley Forge,Iwo Jima or Cholin.We did our best with the best of intentions but we was had.Bless all you serving in Iraq, may you return safe and soon.Bless all you serving in Afghanistan,may you and the good people living there find that son of a bitch and bring him to justice and return home safe and soon.Bless all of you serving anywhere in defense of this country and its ideals.Oh hell,bless us all.

"Just as power abhors a vacuum, modern journalism apparently abhors any type of due diligence and fact checking before scurrilous allegations are repeated as fact."

Like saying a certain opponent "pals around with terrorists" or making a poster boy out of a guy who's not a plumber?

"Mr. Letterman was alluding to Bristol, and not the underage Willow, who still lives under the Palin's somewhat loose (if previous events can be relied upon) supervision."

No, Willow was actually AT the Yankee game the night Mr. Letterman alluded to, not Willow. Letterman's explanation that he was referring Bristol was an obvious dodge that he has since apologized for. And really, angrypoodle, if he was telling the truth about meaning to refer to Bristol, does that somehow make it acceptable? You can always continue to read only what you want to believe, if that what makes you happy. But if you mistakenly believe that you are somehow "above auto-mnemonic levels of awareness," I really find you a rather pathetic creature. Talk about elitists statements -- that one takes the cake. Yeesch.

Bonnie, you are now one of my personal heroes.

"Virtue": My Dad never discussed this with anyone but his squadron buddies--he certainly never boasted to strangers that he "defended their right to freedom of expression with his life"--but I don't have any such qualms. He was an F-4 Phantom II Wild Weasel pilot in Vietnam, charged with taking out enemy surface-to-air missiles by drawing their fire. The Wild Weasel motto was "YGBSM"--an acronym for what one pilot allegedly said in response to a mission briefing: "You gotta be shitting me." My father would, and I do, thank you for your service, but he wouldn't--and I don't--consider it seemly to brandish it in order to make some "holier-than-thou" point. For all I know, you were taking out SAMs too; but if you were, you apparently never absorbed the fighter pilot's legendary reticence about his own heroism.

Virtue. Right.

The fact that you say you were "ashamed of having served" gives you away bigtime. My brothers who survived it with me are a proud, tight group that never loses touch and always supports each other. You, on the other hand, are a phony asshole.

And by the way, my father hated the war, and understood why some men were angry, and later, even ashamed of their service. He performed his duty to the ends of his ability, but he always believed that a patriot can question his country's policies and remain a patriot.

No. I was just a grunt on the ground, watching my biddies getting ripped to shreds, thank you very much. And lucky to survive.

"Apparently you speak for your wife -- who apparently can't fight her own battles."

Huh? She isn't even aware of Salon, my friend. She's too busy trying to make it in the real world. And I admire her for that. And for the fact that she fights ruthless misogyny on a day to day basis. She really doesn't have time for you.