Late Night: Freaks and Laughing in Wasilla

Scott has a pretty good rundown of just who exactly constitutes the Palin Hating Left that we’ve been hearing so much about lately. Every wingnut is an amateur anthropologist; they blather on endlessly with their Scientific Theories about what The Liberal Tribe Believes Deep Down, and What They Are Plotting. If none of this ever makes much sense, that’s not the point. The point is rather to define what they themselves are, which is, Believers in Freedom and Classical Liberals, and if you’re wondering just who the hell those are when they’re at home, why, clearly, they are most emphatically not Transnational Secular Humanist Homofascist Muslim Appeasers. And those people, you see, they are obviously not Classical Liberal Believers in Freedom. Shazam! Which is stupid, but at least it lets them gad about in public fantasizing they’re Jedi Knights, or ancient Greeks, or similar.

And hence the completely baffling to everyone else wingnut infatuation with Sarah Palin. The case for Palin being a puddle-shallow crazy person is one made by herself whenever she says anything, as her freakish, incomprehensible, comical soliloquy the other day amply demonstrated. But no matter — the fact that she’s clownish, and hence laughed at (a natural consequence, you might suppose, of clownishness), is taken as irrefutable evidence that that The Liberals Hate and Fear Her, despite the fact that, you know, she’s about as frightening to most real-life liberals as a be-lipsticked anvil that lots and lots of conservatives have decided to chain to their necks. Which they’ve done giddily and delightedly, because they’re convinced that Liberals Hate Her. So they pretend she’s been Photoshopped to a Cross of Blog because of the Existential Threat She Represents. Just what threat this is, well, let’s leave it to Jonah Goldberg to explain, because he has a particular genius for distilling right wing stupid:

There’s a reason why the Left and much of the media establishment hated you from day one. Some hated you out of the fear that you might stop Barack Obama’s unfolding coronation. Others because you seemed to expose the snobbery, arrogance, and ideological pieties of elite feminism. Your beauty, your status as a working mom, your blue-collar husband, your bravery in taking on the political establishment in Alaska, your proud status as a pro-lifer and mother of a special-needs child: All of these things were — and are — deeply threatening to a secular left-wing cultural elite.

If it’s news to you that feminists are against working mothers and special needs children, much less attractive women, well, that’s not the point. The point is the circular logic that lets wingnuts play-act that they’re Jedis, the circular logic that makes them so fucking dizzy.

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