Why do they? Hanson reviews:
The furor
The AP supposedly hired 11 fact-checkers to discredit Ms. Palin’s memoir (Did Fox News hire 11 to question the very questionable things found in the two Obama memoirs?)
Bloggers post on Palin’s live interviews minute by minute; few, if any, opponents of Barack Obama do the same.
Every statement she makes is parsed, to prove she is ignorant or parochial—though most of her so-called lapses are the sort of things Biden and Obama are accustomed to committing weekly.
So what?
The list could go on, but two fundamental questions arise:
1) What drives this fear and loathing?
2) How does one, then, assess the Palin phenomenon?
Question one is easy, and we can be systematic in our exegeses:
Read the whole thing.
My take: they hate her because she’s not one of them. Mostly on the left but with some on the right, the correct perception is that Palin doesn’t care what they think and is entirely uninterested in what they have to say. Failed people who consistently get things wrong are not to be listened to even if they have television shows, syndicated columns and a shelf of books to their name.
I’ll add: she’s also proving herself vastly smarter than her critics.
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