After Sarah Palin's handy triumph as keynote speaker of the National Tea Party convention, you'd think the tea partiers would be singing her praises louder than ever.

Incorrect. Dale Robertson, founder of TeaParty.org, has just posted a lengthy boldface screed attacking the movement's most sacred cow…

Sarah Palin's well delivered speech and her attractive demeanor is little more than a veneer for her less attractive political philosophy. She seems more like a duck out of water among true Conservative Constitutionalists. Palin demonstrates her NeoCon flippant viewpoint and her naïveté as she seems envious of the swelled numbers of Patriots pledging their allegiance, to of all things, AMERICA and not to a kool-aid ridden political dinosaur. [...]

Sarah Palin is not dense or erroneous in her view of the Tea Party, just the opposite. She represents a growing insider's attack to the heart of the Tea Party. Very much like a wolf in sheep's clothing entering in at the gate as an ally, but for all intents and purposes there to seize and capture, not only one or two stray sheep, but the whole flock!

So, to recap: Sarah Palin is a landlocked duck, a thirsty Tyrannosaurus and a costumed wolf. I might even add "demented caribou."

But not a lipsticked pig. Not that. That's sexist.

(Via TPM, the hungry hungry news hippo.)

It's bad enough that Barack Obama thinks Sarah Palin is a pig and seeks to "destroy her" and American women in general. But it gets worse: Research shows he was beaten to the punch by 13 of his Congressional colleagues!

Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill, did a little digging into the Congressional Record and found 16 variations of the "lipstick on a pig" phrase have been uttered by 13 separate members of the 110th Congress. Behold the list of chauvinist, unpatriotic community organizers currently disgracing our government…

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Last night, a depressingly old and tired-looking Barack Obama went on The Late Show with David Letterman to explain why he called Sarah Palin a pig and to talk about the falling star of his one-time celebrity.

The good news, though, is that he says he'll be the centerfold in next month's Popular Mechanics.

Wait a minute! What did he mean by that?

Is he calling Sarah Palin a tool?!

Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn on MSNBC…

It's what women of America are beginning to see. Because Senator Obama had the choice of Senator Clinton or Governor Sebelius to go in the number two spot on that ticket. He passed over them. The comments he made last night.

He followed the lipstick on a pig comment with talking about old fish wrapped in paper. Senator Obama is a smart man. And he is very highly educated. And I think that it was unfortunate. He knew what he was speaking, the words he was speaking.

Yes, this is indeed the world you live in.

And these people are our elected representatives.

Now, try and enjoy your evening.

Time's James Poniewozik lays out the Republican's strategy for forcing the media into reporting remarkably idiotic bullshit claims of sexism as "news"…

In order for this strategy to work, it has to start from a legitimate example. Then you take that example — in this case, reporters asking if Palin can be a good mom and a good VP — and link it to examples of sexism that are only from "the media" in the broadest sense, like late-night comedy jokes. Then you go from there to the charge that any critical coverage is sexist. And hopefully you create an environment in which journalists see the whole thing as a minefield…

Somehow, I don't get the impression that they have to try very hard.

While speaking to a crowd of people in some city or other, Barack Obama discussed what he calls "the made-up controversy" of Sarah Palin being a pig who wears lipstick, when everyone knows that she's really a dog who wears lipstick…

This is what they want to spend two out of the last fifty-five days talking about. You know who ends up losing at the end of the day? It's not the Democratic candidate. It's not the Republican candidate. It's you, the American people.

Oh, so now we're losers?! You heard him say it! Barack Obama just said that the American people are losers!

Disgusting!

But will the liberal media report on this latest outrage? Don't count on it.