"Embarrassing And Outrageous"

I've never come across an editor actually calling a piece she has published "embarrassing and outrageous". But that's what Kathryn-Jean Lopez just called a column by Kathleen Parker. And Lopez engages in the ultimate blog-snub: she won't even link to a piece on her own site! The Corner doesn't just ostracize those outside their orbit (they have had a policy of not linking to this blog for quite a while), they are now ostracizing writers in their own pages!

Kathleen, of course, makes the point that is now undeniable. Of course, McCain partly picked Palin because of her looks. And, of course, a large part of Palin's appeal to white older Republican men is sex. I mean, K-Lo's own site has published virtual orgasms from male writers about Palin. Rich Lowry's "little starbursts"? "Coldest State. Hottest Candidate" posters? Charles Murray's declaration of falling in love at first sight?

There have been plenty of embarrassing and outrageous things published in National Review about Sarah Palin. But Kathleen Parker's column isn't one of them.