VULGAR, JUST VULGAR – AT 8:44 A.M. ET:  Didn't President Obama ask us to tone down the rhetoric?  I think I heard that in the Tucson speech.  Apparently, the word didn't travel to his chief groupie at the Washington Post, Eugene Robinson. 

In an outlandish column, Robinson lashes out irrationally, and with meanness, at Sarah Palin, who has been smeared in the last week in a manner that makes Joe McCarthy look like an amateur. 

To give just a sample of the bizarre craziness in Robinson's attack, consider this:

The way Palin portrayed herself as not only a popular champion but also a martyr reminded me - not for the first time - of Eva Peron. If she chooses this unpromising route to higher political office, I suggest she find a suitable balcony from which to deliver her next address to the nation.

Or perhaps - solely in the interest of civil discourse - that there be no next address.

COMMENT:  Sweet of you, Eugene - comparing an elected American governor to the wife of a Latin American fascist.  Wonder how much you know about the Perons?

And that last line is chilling.  Sarah Palin gives strong speeches, to be sure, but they're mild compared to some of the wild rhetoric of the left, such as calling President Bush a Nazi, and members of the Tea Party racists.  It is appalling that a journalist would ask that someone leave public life simply because he doesn't like her remarks. 

Eugene Robinson is a Pulitzer-Prize winner.  Jimmah Carter is a Nobel-Peace-Prize winner.  Those prizes have been debased.

January 18, 2011