Gregg Opelka: When the NY Times has nothing to say, it hates on Sarah Palin

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At Big Journalism, Gregg Opelka reviews Gail Collins’ latest nastygram-masquerading-as-a- NY-Times-column:

If you’ve never seen the movie The Women, don’t feel bad. You can get a much better lesson in girl-on-girl bitchiness by reading Gail Collins’ much nastier New York Times op-ed “Sarah’s Amazing Race.”

With all the outrage over frivolous stimulus spending projects, the government should fund a study of the nexus between hatred of Palin and the absence of the Y chromosome in liberals like Collins. Finally we’d see stimulus money well-spent. Here’s the first of Collins’ ad feminam mud-balls:

Palin is on a roll. She’s got her own TV show, not counting Fox News. And she twitters! Or somebody does it for her. Hard to tell which. Her twit on the president’s Iraq speech was: “may make u want to dig out ur old Orwell books so rewritten history can be deciphered.” On the one hand, the sentence construction does have that Sarah ring to it. On the other, how many of you think that Palin has old Orwell books hanging around the house? May I see a show of hands?

In this embarrassingly mean-spirited column, Collins drips elitist superciliousness like a human IV-bag. The above excerpt alone shows Collins staking out both Twitter and the entire George Orwell oeuvre as the sole property of the left.

Her implication? Conservative women—especially non Ivy-league-educated women such as Palin—have no business reading big books like 1984 or using high-tech innovations like Twitter. Those are reserved for women on the left. Only they possess the intelligence to understand Orwellian admonitions or to articulate intelligent thoughts in 140 characters or fewer. Hence—as Collins so charitably implies—Sarah undoubtedly has somebody “do it for her.”

By the way, that same “somebody” should inform Collins that when attempting to discredit your opponent for using Twitter, you might want to get your lingo straight. Sarah doesn’t “twitter,” she “tweets.”

Read the rest of this scathing comeuppance here.

- JP

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