Ms. Walsh, you asked, "Is Sarah Palin going to keep telling these lies on her self-pity tour? And why is so much of the media letting her get away with it?"

In brief, that answers are, "No," and "they are lazy, and it sort of spoils all the arguments which can consume air time."

As another commenter said it, Palin can't not lie. I think we have all come across someone like this in our lives. Even when it would be easier to tell the truth, they can't seem to bring themselves to be honest. She'll continue whining and playing the victim card because it works so well with that tiny base of hers. And of course, it's a form of inoculation. Now that you've called out her lies, you're just another one of those liberal media jerks who harassed her right out of office.

When CNN first went on the air on cable, many of us had high hopes that finally television news would be no longer just a bunch of sound bites, and that television journalists could spend time carefully analyzing and reporting on important and complex stories. Little did we know that all we'd get are pundits yelling at one another and needing to fill up a 24 hour cycle. See Ms. Walsh, if the talking heads on the 24 hour news stations use the information you've collected, then this story is basically over. Palin didn't bail because of the mounting costs to Alaska, she bailed because it wasn't fun anymore. There is not much of a story there, and people can't cover about six hours out of the news day yelling at each other about the eastern liberal media types coming to Alaska and wrecking havoc over baseless ethics charges.

So really, they can't report facts...it takes all the fun out of the yelling.

"This woman is closer to Paris Hilton than Harry Truman."

For her sake, I sure hope Sarah Palin is closer to Paris Hilton than she is to Harry Truman, inasmuch as he's been dead for over 35 years.

Or are you suggesting that Ms Palin's... tendencies... are even more outré than the tabloid rumors have been hinting?

Sagging boomer ass?

Have you seen Joan Walsh's Ass?

While I have not seen it myself, I shall reserve judgement on that claim of yours as I have been to San Francisco and with all those hills you have to climb to get a cup of coffee and noticed that most people had rather healthy and firm buttocks. As a matter of fact, after a couple of weeks in San Francisco, my own buttocks became quite splendid, firm and resilient. Whenever I sat down, I would bounce up and down a couple of times due to the immense amount of kinetic energy such buttocks afford.

Unless you have evidence to prove otherwise, we should all assume that Joan Walsh's ass is just as fine as any other San Fanciscan's asses are. But, if she lives in Berkley, Oakland or some other less walkable areas with flatter terrains, perhaps you may be correct.

What brings Joan Walsh's ass to your attention anyway? Or do you just like to laugh at Broadsheet and Koppelman?

If anyone has seen Joan Walsh's ass or has thoughts about her ass, please discuss and share.

"Why do you HATE this woman so much? She is like the popular girl you hated in high-school right. Time to get over it. Marie Cocco has called you out for sexist coverage. Femisex and The New Agenda have called you out for your sexism. Oh wait: Can we talk bout how fuckable Palin is again? You need some serious CBT and meds before talking about female pols."

CBT???

Joan Walsh needs some serious Cock and Ball Torture?

REALLY?

I guess you know something about Joan Walsh that I did not know.

... who has no idea that -

(sigh) - I can't write another thing about this raving whack job...

What a shock that Maureen Dowd devoted her New York Times column Sunday to attack Sarah Palin. It did not so much criticize Alaska's governor for prematurely stepping down from her official duties as to finish off what sister snipers Katie Couric and Tina Fey began last fall.

The assassination of Sarah Palin - by media.

For those who didn't pay attention, Mrs. Palin's unexpected stratospheric rise as a national political figure threatened the media's preordained presidency of Barack Obama.

In light of how the Obama machine took down Hillary Clinton, which unsettled many feminists who believed 2008 was their time, many who saw sexism at play - the destruction of an ascendant Republican female icon was an urgent imperative for the Democratic Party.

In conjunction with the laws of political correctness as perfected by the Democratic Media Complex, it would take prominent women to take down an unlikely and unexpected conservative feminist symbol that threatened to steal away Mrs. Clinton's votes from the Chosen One.

While the vanquished then-senator from New York conspicuously removed herself from this task - going so far as praising Sen. John McCain's running mate as "a very composed and effective debater" - a trio of media partisans, each with a unique skill set, rose to the task of tearing down Sarah Palin.

Misses Dowd, Couric and Fey - Obama's Angels (featuring Joy Behar in the role of "Bosley") - used a potent mix of mockery, snobbery and vitriol to undermine Mrs. Palin's feminist bona fides.

They are what my wife calls "pad throwers," an allusion to the shower room scene in the Stephen King film "Carrie," in which the popular girls throw sanitary napkins and tampons at the film's namesake.

Simply put, they are bullies. And female bullies - "Mean Girls" as Miss Fey's film calls them - are the cruelest kind.

Primarily motivated by a desire to keep abortion "safe, legal and rare," female liberals in the media have carte blanche to do and say anything.

But since Mrs. Palin, a mother of five including a boy who was known to have Down syndrome before he was born, is a potent symbol of the pro-life movement, she is considered an enemy of the sisterhood.

Miss Dowd's attempted takedown of Mrs. Palin is less skillful surgery than it is name calling using fun noun and adjective pairings. Think "Mad Libs." And, that's exactly what Misses Dowd, Couric and Fey are. Once the ladies did their job, liberal men like Jon Stewart and David Letterman had the cover to join the hate campaign.

While Mrs. Palin is at ease with her gender, as well as her place in the workplace and at home, Misses Dowd, Couric and Fey convey a base insecurity in their feminine skin. Their rage is fueled by liberalism's false feminist dogma and they take it out on a woman who chose not to join their angry sorority.

The governor of Alaska's compelling narrative - athlete, beauty queen, wife, mother, hunter, successful politician - shows adherents of narrow leftist dogma that, perhaps, women really can have it all. Most importantly: freedom of thought.

In calling Alaska's governor "Caribou Barbie," Miss Dowd used beauty as a weapon to diminish Mrs. Palin's achievements. A man would be reprimanded for this, but Miss Dowd is a Pulitzer Prize-winning pad thrower and is licensed for such vindictive pettiness.

"Caribou," of course, is a stab at Mrs. Palin's backwater, Red State ways, attacks on which an Upper Westside liberal snob can never get enough. Miss Dowd goes on to ridicule "Sarah's country-music melodramas." This is her barely veiled attempt to call Mrs. Palin "white trash." And this has been the loathsome subtext of all media criticism of the Palins. They even went after their children. Mercilessly.

And Mrs. Palin during the Letterman saga finally cried, "Enough!"

Exposed in the relentless Palin attacks is not just political bias, but unmitigated class bias. The American mainstream media in its current free-fall is begging for more comeuppance when it continues to berate the values and lifestyles of the folks in flyover country who in simpler times used to be considered valued customers.

While "empathy" and "tolerance" may be liberalism's highest values, Miss Dowd offers her conservative victims none. They are caricatured, demeaned and dehumanized. They are to be mocked and ridiculed to the point where the other students point and laugh. The MoDo template is so simple and repetitive it could be written into a software program.

Perhaps resigning from her first term in office may hurt Mrs. Palin's attempts to run for higher office. Even I, a Palin supporter, now have qualms about her seeking higher office. But politics is not the most important way to influence our country, and reinforce conservatism's relevancy in the current global disorder. Media is.

Sarah Palin may best serve her country by entering the media fray. In the pursuit of taking her down, Misses Dowd, Couric and Fey have created the person who burns the liberal media prom down.

Hopefully, when she leaves office Mrs. Palin starts to work on her telekinetic powers.