This week’s Watcher’s Council’s submissions are up! How Not to Argue – The Glittering Eye identifies and refutes a number of dishonest arguments about My Final Reason For Opposing Sonia Sotomayor – Rhymes With Right brings up a personal reason why h…

* The Glittering Eye – How Not to Argue * Rhymes With Right – My Final Reason For Opposing Sonia Sotomayor * Joshuapundit – Netanyahu And Lieberman Tell Obama: ‘Jerusalem Is Not Negotiable’ * The Provocateur – Note to……

For me, well, you all probably know about that part.

That the media has no healthy cynicism, objectivity, or even decency, was beautifully demonstrated when Sarah Palin appeared on the political screen. Even as someone who likes Palin, I freely admit that she was an easy target. If you think Ivy League degrees are the only ones worth having, she didn’t have one; if you think states with big populations are the only ones that provide worthy political experience, she didn’t come from one; if you think believing in God is a sign of primitive irrationality, she was both primitive and irrational; and if you believe in the perfection of the human race through casual eugenics, Palin was a race traitor. And of course there was that absolute lack of foreign policy experience, although no one seemed to mind it in Obama, so I won’t go there.”

Book, that is probably the tightest, most succinct summation of the media’s Palin hatred that I’ve read so far. Nice work.

Also, Book, your very thoughtful essay reminds me of the recent hit-and-run attack by DCrockett, in which he referred us for documentation to a website run by an Israeli-Palestinian coalition of Marxist Jew haters.

I mention it because another distressing element in all of this is not only the credulousness and nescience of the western press, it is that weak minds like DCrockett—and there are tens of millions of them—lap this crap up like mother’s milk.

I don’t know why people like him get such a thrill at being given permission to engage in the most ancient and foulest of hatreds, and I guess I’ll go to my grave trying to figure it out.