doublethink

This is just too, too excellent:

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Here's a summary of the key points, in case the link dies at some point (although the summary should by no means substitute for the video itself because I'm leaving out the excellent juxtaposition and the hypocrisy angle along with it).

Karl Rove, before Palin: "With all due respect to Richmond, Virginia [more than 20 times bigger than Wasilla, Alaska]...it's not a big town.  So if you were to pick Gov. Kaine, it would be an intensely political choice where it said, 'You know what, I'm really not first and foremost concerned with "Is this person capable of being president of the United States?"'"

Bill O'Reilly, before Palin: "Sixteen-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant...Here the blame falls primarily on the parents of the girl, who obviously have little control over her.  Incredible pinheads."

Dick Morris, before Palin: "When a woman wants to be president, she shouldn't complain based on gender! ... Are we gonna have the president of the United States saying, 'The boys are picking on me?'  This is what Hillary always does, whenever she gets under fire: she retreats behind the apron strings."

Nancy Pfotenhauer [McCain senior policy adviser]: "It would be a terrible mistake for [Sen. Clinton] to try to play this victimology or victimization card because it's just not what we want in a president."

But best of all...

Sarah Palin, before Palin: "When I hear a statement like that coming from a woman candidate, with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism or, you know, maybe a sharper microscope put on her, I think, 'Man, that doesn't do us any good.  I mean, work harder, prove yourself to an even greater degree that you're capable, that you're gonna be the best candidate."

* In a perfect world, a world in which baldfaced hypocrisy and political pandering would never fly under the radar, none of this would need pointing out.  I mean, shouldn't it be obvious to anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention that the GOP's nomination of Sarah Palin is an incredibly cynical move?—that their focus on the glass ceiling has nothing to do with their actual positions or values and is nothing but a ploy to win over angry Clinton supporters who are imagined to think only with their vaginas?  The idea that conservative Republicans would applaud the name of Hillary Clinton (as they did when Palin first met the press as McCain's VP pick) is a joke in itself.  And then, of course, less relevantly here but much more hilariously, there's the incredible repeated claim that Alaska's proximity to Russia gives Palin valuable foreign-policy experience!  I hope when I see people treating the nomination as sincere that they are simply staunch Republicans who are sticking to the talking points and not plain nonpartisan citizens who are mentally deficient.  And yet in this real world of ours, you never know.  Correction: you do know that a lot of insanely ridiculous bullshit goes unquestioned by the voters.  That's why we need The Daily Show: few are so willing to go—or so good at going—right to the heart of the bullshit.