“I defended the woman effectively in ‘Sensational Sarah,’ ‘Who’s Stupid? Not Sarah,’ and ‘The Left’s Gallery of Cretins.’ I did so mainly because her detractors were so much more odious and pretentious, and because I saw in Sarah Palin something, a spark. That glimmer has fizzled. Her philosophical ignorance was unaided by the trashy family dramas, played out in public; the interviews (and no, Bristol is NOT ‘a bright young woman,’ despite what Mother says), the shrill inflection she has developed, the propensity to talk without stop in senseless, rambling, run-off sentences. And now, in her “uprising” against Dave Letterm[a]n — a veritable storm in a C-cup — Palin comes off as a cross between a less intelligent Gloria Steinem and that ding dong Carrie Prejean (who too refers to herself adoringly as a ‘bright, intelligent young woman;’ I don’t think so). That ‘young woman’ sobriquet is enough to trigger a conniption.” (06/13/09)