"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me"

"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me," Alice Roosevelt Longworth is famously said to have famously said. She would have lots of company these days as Palin Derangement Syndrome spreads — with no known antidote — among the unprotected. Above Fox News hottie Megyn Kelly isn't buying US Weekly editor's "Who, me?" rationalization of his publication's PDS hit last week.

"Also, I’m scheduled right now to be on Fox News at 0935 Eastern time Monday morning with Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly to talk about the list. Excuse me while I have a minor fanboy moment about Megyn Kelly," writes Charlie Martin of Explorations, Palin Rumors Central for the growing body of scandal allegations swirling around the Republican ticket's vp running mate. A great resource, but as we wrote in Charlie's comments, allegation #48 – "yes, she apparently believes in some variant of Intelligent Design" – is yet to be verified. We blogged about the issue last week:

My only worry about Governor Palin had been what I would call a hysterical misreading of her views regarding the teaching of creationism in public schools, but Charles Johnson has put my fears to rest … Here's what [he] had to say about how some of our fellow citizens on the left side of the aisle have distorted and will attempt to distort Palin's views.

It's been fascinating to watch how this lie has traveled halfway around the world "while the truth is putting on its shoes," as Mark Twain said, or "before the truth has a chance to put its pants on," as Winston Churchill may or may not have said. Here's but the latest reiteration of this unsubstantiated meme from the Times across the pond:

The Obamacons – Republican defectors to Obama – have shown no sign of reconsidering their allegiance. Jeffrey Hart, a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan and former editor of the National Review, said: “I consider Sarah Palin radically unacceptable.” He then criticised her for supporting the teaching of intelligent design – a form of creationism – in schools.

"You are perhaps unwittingly promulgating a wilfully distorted view of Sarah Palin's views on the teaching of 'intellient design -- a form of creationism,'" we wrote in a Letter to the Editor. How about one of you "objective" journalists out there seeking out original sources and getting to the bottom of this?

Comments

[Ronald]

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[goomp]

Arrogant, ignorant liberals have taken over the Democrat Party and the MSM. Let us hope we can escape the disaster of these Democrats' infecting true American ideals and values.

[hnav]

Megyn Kelly gave Americans what we would like to see happen to the ugly unethical Partisans in the MSM everyday.

Then it would be nice to see them lose their jobs, magazines, papers, tv programs, etc., take a long look at their lives, and realize how misguided their deceit has been for all.

[Virginia Harris]

Read this for your daughters!

Senator Clinton and Governor Palin are proof that women can and do diverge on important issues.

Even on the question of whether women should vote!

Most people are totally in the dark about HOW the suffragettes won votes for women, and what life was REALLY like for women before they did.

Suffragettes were opposed by many women who were what was known as 'anti.'

The most influential 'anti' lived in the White House. First Lady Edith Wilson was a wealthy Washington widow who married President Wilson in 1915.

Her role in Wilson's decision to jail and torture Alice Paul and hundreds of other suffragettes will never be fully known, but she was outraged that these women picketed her husband's White House.

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[Gayle Miller]

Mentioning Gov. Sarah Palin and Sen. Hillary Clinton in the same breath is - to put it mildly - a somewhat startling concept. The two women are so incredibly different. And yet, perhaps that's something that bears some examination.

I do know one thing, when I was in my 20s (a LONG time ago), feminism was about women having CHOICES. That seems to have fallen by the wayside of late. What's up with that?