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This was Ed Morrissey, at Hot Air,

Update: Charles Martin at Explorations has the list of debunked slurs and innuendo, and it’s getting pretty lengthy.  Coming up next: Sarah Palin is an extraterrestrial looking to infiltrate human society!  Where’s the Weekly World News when you need it?

Update II: Just spitballing here, but what stereotypes of naughty women have the media and the lunatics missed?  So far, they’ve made her out to be a slut, a b***h, a beauty-queen airhead, and an unfit mother.  She’s obviously not frigid, so that smear won’t work.  How many other demeaning gender-based slurs can they throw her way?

How many? Well, here’s one more.

Certainly, Palin is Example the Umpteenth of how a Christian conservative gets treated when they dare walk in the public halls of government.

I’m a fan of Michael Feldman’s show Whad’Ya Know?, which is a PRI show, and airs live on Saturdays. I’ve listened for years, and while it is a public radio show, and is sympathetic to the left, it usually isn’t too political.

Today’s show, though, started off with a bit on Sarah Palin. First, they played this snippet from Palin’s speech to the RNC.

And in April, my husband, Todd, and I welcomed our littlest one into the world, a perfectly beautiful baby boy named Trig. From the inside, no family ever seems typical.

That’s how it is with us.

Our family has the same ups and downs as any other — the same challenges and the same joys.

And then, they played a bit of the old Irving Berlin song from Annie Get Your Gun, Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly, and the part they played had these lyrics,

Folks are dumb where I come from,
They ain’t had any learning.
Still they’re happy as can be
Doin’ what comes naturally (doin’ what comes naturally).
Folks like us could never fuss
With schools and books and learning.
Still we’ve gone from A to Z,
Doin’ what comes naturally (doin’ what comes naturally)
You don’t have to know how to read or write
When you’re out with a feller in the pale moonlight.
You don’t have to look in a book to find out
What he thinks of the moon and what is on his mind.
That comes naturally (that comes naturally).

So, what? Palin is a dumb, uneducated hick who just knows how to breed?

Keep it up, public radio types. You’ll get a sense of how receptive Regular America is to your brand of tolerance at the ballot box in November.

Cross-posted at Truth Vs. The Machine. Comments welcome.