SARAH SHINES – AT 7:44 P.M. ET:  I've had some doubts about Sarah Palin, but I must say that she's really begun to shine.  Her appearances on Fox News have gotten better and better, and her public speeches have been sharpened.  She's taking on the press, and we can only cheer:

SEARCHLIGHT, NEV. – Firing back at critics who say that she and other conservatives had encouraged harassment of House Democrats who supported the healthcare overhaul, Sarah Palin Saturday ripped the media for casting her and tea party activists as violent.

“When we talk about fighting for our country, let’s clear the air right now about what we’re talking about,” she told an estimated 20,000 tea partiers gathered for a rally in a windswept desert lot about four miles north of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s tiny hometown. “We’re not inciting violence. Don’t get sucked into the lame-stream media lies.”

Palin said “violence isn’t the answer.” She said “our vote is our arms” and encouraged activists not to be discouraged by the passage of the Democratic healthcare overhaul bill last week, but rather to channel their energies into defeating congressional Democrats who supported the legislation.

We should note that buses filled with tea partiers were pelted with eggs in Nevada today.  Now, if liberals had been pelted with eggs by conservatives, the media would call the eggs "symbolic hand grenades."  Military historians would be called in to tell us, in somber, academic tones, that "egg" was military slang for "bomb."  Get the connection?

Liberal media hacks, meanwhile, continue their attempt to connect protests against health "reform" to segregationists and racists of the 1960s.  It's part of the liberal nostalgia for that era.  If only they could catch a tea partier burning a stethoscope on a congressman's lawn, this crowd would be in Heaven.

Well, wait, they don't believe in Heaven.  Okay, maybe they'd be in Beverly Hills.

March 27, 2010