Media still afflicted with Palin-OCD

In The Huffington Post this month, Taylor Marsh responded to Palin’s speech at the Susan B. Anthony List breakfast in her column, “Sarah Palin Is Not a Feminist.” Marsh wrote of Palin’s “anti women’s rights language” (I can only assume she was referring to Palin’s use of the words life, moms, and adoption) and stated, “You simply can’t be a feminist if you don’t support a woman’s individual rights.” Forget about the rights of those silly fetuses, already! Didn’t you get the memo from Planned Parenthood that “It’s not a baby at this stage or anything like that”? Note to the Left: Palin isn’t looking to put you in jail for having an abortion, but she doesn’t have to promote abortion as the supreme manifestation of female liberty, either. In August of 2008, she said she would “…do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential.” Her commitment to the pro-life movement has earned her a place in the Left’s feminist doghouse. (I guess pro-life “mother of feminism,” Mary Wollstonecraft, is in there as well.)

Bottom line: The media is still working overtime to try to paint Palin as the dumb, cowardly, woman-hating radical she’s not. Why? Because despite all their hard work thus far, she still connects with the masses, and it scares the crap out of them.

What in heaven’s name would the media elite do without Palin? Would they be forced to resort to something dreadful like analyzing the false promises and policy missteps of the current administration?

P.S.—Gov. Palin, don’t forget to do something newsworthy this week like dye your hair, eat a bag of Doritos in public, or paint your toenails fluorescent pink. You don’t want the media to starve, now do you?

Jedediah Bila is a conservative columnist and commentator living in New York City. For more information on Jedediah, please visit http://jedediahbila.com/.