Liberals slam Sarah Palin's book, but refuse to read it

In a post on Intellectual Conservative's IC Blog, Aaron Goldstein tells the story of what happened when he and his roomie went to the roomie's home for the holidays. Surrounded by liberals, Goldstein says conversation around the table soon turned to politics and then more specifically to Sarah Palin:

Sure enough the Palin bashing could be put off no longer. I momentarily retreated from the room only to return with a copy of Going Rogue which I had just completed on the bus en route to Hartford. I didn't need to say a word. The book itself was provocation enough. My roomie's father (who works for a TV station in Hartford) asked me if I actually bought the book while his mother insisted that Palin didn't write a word of it. Those gathered at the table began shooting out questions they didn't want answered. They asked why Palin should be considered for higher office but didn't want to hear her accomplishments in Alaska.

I challenged them to read the book but none of them would. What are they so afraid of? Hey, I read Obama's The Audacity of Hope. But so much for the liberal capacity for openmindedness. They accused Palin of racism and homophobia, and I challenged them to cite me examples. Naturally, they couldn't come up with any examples of her own behavior other than to say that she appealed to white people and that her rhetoric was "divisive." Whatever that means?

The best anyone could come up with was the alleged behavior of some people at Palin's rallies. I countered that the Secret Service had debunked that anyone had threatened to kill Obama at the Palin rally in Pennsylvania last October. The fellow who formerly worked for Dean contended that people at the townhalls had compared Obama to Hitler. I reminded him that Bush had been compared to Hitler for eight years. He wisely ceded my point.

Golstein's experience reminds us of how Ana Marie Cox, assigned by the Washington Post to review Going Rogue, admitted in her Palin-bashing review that she didn't even bother to read the entire book! Moonbattery nailed it:

"Pretty typical for a lefty. They already know their opinions, don't annoy them with facts or expect them to actually investigate the things they bash. (And I would reckon the truth is she only skimmed the first 150 pp and completely blew off the rest) Showing another typical leftist trait --- complete lack of self-awareness --- the blogger who achieved 'fame' by writing a blog consisting of nothing but sexual innuendos about political figures accuses Palin of being 'all flash and no substance.'"

 Oh well, at least liberals are consistent about one thing: By their words and their deeds, they have proved that they are the last people on earth who should presume to pontificate about "substance." All they have are the talking points they get from the corrupt DNC and conspiracy freaks of Andrew Sullivan's caliber.  

- JP