Some of the FDL gang are sympathetic to conservative commentator Ann Althouse’s plight as she tries to explain to her angry horndog male readership why Sarah Palin is utterly unfit to be president:


The Voice from the Other Cubicle: Ann Althouse: Sarah Palin is Dumb.

The Voice from the Next Cubicle Over: Rush disagrees: Rush calls Palin memoir "one of the most substantive policy books I’ve read"

Scarecrow: I suspect Rush is telling the truth. Or he may mean that it’s the most substantive policy book he’s understood. Whatever.

Watertiger: How did Rush actually READ the book with all the pages stuck together?

Phoenix Woman: Oh my God. You should read the comments section — just full of "Reagan wuz dumb, Carter’n Obummer iz smart, but Reagan wuz BETTER!" crapola that seems to be ingrained righty dogma. Here’s Althouse trying to beat them back:

Ann Althouse said…

1. The question of whether Obama is as smart as he and others try to make him seem is a different one, addressed in many other posts on this blog. I have not bought into the Obama is soooo smart myth, and it will be dull to comment on this post as if I have. Don’t be dull.

2. I have read 2 pages because that is all that has so far been made available. Let the publisher shoot me a digital file of the whole book right now and I’ll start reading. But the book isn’t out until the 17th, so to accuse me of taking this out of context is ridiculous. How did these 2 pages get out first and to Drudge? Someone took this out of context, but it wasn’t me. Don’t you think it was somebody trying to promote the book, such as the publisher or Palin’s people? Do you think her enemies selected this? I read what was given to me, and I’m saying it’s embarrassing, all the more so because she/her people don’t realize it’s embarrassing.

For the first time in memory, I actually feel sorry for Althouse.

Eli: Do you suppose she’s only just now realizing that her commenters are idiots?

The Voice from the Other Cubicle: This would be the woman who is engaged to one of her commenters so I’d guess the answer is No.

Phoenix Woman: She was one of the Dems who got unhinged by 9/11, wasn’t she? Some of those are slowly regaining their sanity.

Eli: I was actually kind of hoping that her fiance was one of the commenters getting under her skin.

That may have come out wrong…