NY Times Op-Ed Savages Bristol Palin

An op-ed in the leftist New York Times by Gail Collins today attacks 18-year-old Bristol Palin, her parents, her home town, her role as teen ambassador for a teen pregnancy awareness campaign, the Candie's Foundation, abstinence, and... well, you get the drift.

Among the many poison darts Collins threw at the teenager was this one:

"It's hard not to suspect that for her, being the anti-pregnancy ambassador is just a good excuse to get out of Wasilla."

Slimy, elitist opinion writers are standard fare at the Times, but Collins is a really rotten piece of dried-up fruit. She has been attacking Sarah Palin since the Alaska governor was chosen by John McCain to be his running mate. On August 30 Collins wrote of Palin's impending nomination as the GOP vice presidential candidate, comparing the historical achievement by the Republican Party to Hillary Clinton's loss to Barack Obama in the Democrat primary race as "a step back" for women.

After Gov. Palin's barn-burner of a speech to the Republican convention September 3, Collins used a disgruntled Romney supporter's unguarded moment to point out that "some Republicans who think the microphone is off, believe that Sarah Palin is a terrible choice for running mate."

In a December 6 op-ed, Collins lamented the fact that McCain did not pick liberal Senator Olympia Snowe as his running mate instead of Palin, whom Collins described as "an out-to-lunch moose-murderer who cannot seem to put together a coherent sentence."

I submit that a character assassin, especially one that tries to justify her attacks on a teenage girl, has little room for denouncing a moose huntress. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Hypocrisy is a leftist core value.

- JP