Here we go again: earlier this week, Sarah Palin worked herself up into a state of fury about a joke, this time about a doctored photo showing her holding a talk show host in her arms, cuddling him as if he were a baby.
The photo clearly pokes fun at the talk show host, who is a huge Palin supporter. But since the original photo was of Palin holding her son, Trig, Palin is accusing the Photoshoppers of launching a malicious attack on her son.
The mere idea of someone doctoring the photo of a special needs baby is appalling. To learn that two Alaskans did it is absolutely sickening. Linda Kellen Biegel, the official Democrat Party blogger for Alaska, should be ashamed of herself and the Democratic National Committee should be ashamed for promoting this website and encouraging this atrocious behavior.
Babies and children are off limits. It is past time to restore decency in politics and real tolerance for all Americans. The Obama Administration sets the moral compass for its party. We ask that special needs children be loved, respected and accepted and that this type of degeneracy be condemned.
Jeesh. Talk about tendentious in the extreme.
Aside from Palin's utter misinterpretation of the joke, she inaccurately claimed Biegel is "the official Democrat (sic) Party blogger." In fact, Biegel is an independent blogger who covered the DNC in the blogger pool from Alaska. You can find Biegel's blog here, not at the Alaska Democratic Party's web site.
Biegel, by the way, had quite the bite in her response to Palin:
To those folks at a certain Palinbot site who think the picture above is of Trig, let me use a phrase many of you are familiar with...
YOU FAIL AT LIFE!!!!!!
It's called "Baby Burke" because it's Eddie Burke...basically his probable second-biggest fantasy about the Governor.
So once again, Sarah Palin doesn't get a joke, launches an angry, over-the-top attack, and gets her facts wrong -- just like her loony Letterman outrage that generated a grand total of something like 12 protesters.
But the right -- or whatever remains of it -- still loves her. Remember this?