Palin-bot throws tantrum that his idol did not make Newsweek's "150 Women Who Shake the World" list.

From something called Opposing Views:

The current issue of Newsweek is dedicated to "150 Women Who Shake the World.' The usual suspects are on the list -- Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Nancy Pelosi, German Prime Minister Angela Merkel. Then there are several entertainers noted for their charity works -- Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Shakira, Meryl Streep.

There is one name noticeably absent -- Sarah Palin.

Agree or disagree with Palin's views, she is certainly a force in our national dialogue. The mere title of the piece warrants Palin's inclusion on the list. She can't open her mouth without the entire world "shaking." Everything she says or does is closely watched and reported by the media ad nauseam. If she is not earth-shaking, who is?

Okay here's the thing, up until this point Mark Berman and I are on the the same page.

I ABSOLUTELY believe that Sarah Palin should be on this list.

Of course I disagree with her, and obviously don't care for her very much, but I have to admit that she has an impact on politics and current events that really cannot be ignored.  While I agree that her influence is rapidly fading, it is clearly still powerful enough to have warranted inclusion on this list.

But then Berman did the unthinkable. He decided to attack those who WERE included instead of his beloved Sarah Palin. And since he was a Palin-bot he made the attack as ugly as possible.

Gabrielle Giffords? Her story is tragic and everyone wishes her a fully and speedy recovery, but with all due respect and not to be insensitive, she was just an anonymous Congresswoman before being shot. What did she really do to shake the world? The same could be said for CBS News reporter Lara Logan, who likely would not have made the list had she not been beaten in Egypt. (And raped.  Don't forget that this brave journalist was brutally raped and sexually assaulted by her attackers as well. Or were you afraid that letting your readers know that might make you look like an even bigger piece of shit?)

Oh..my..God!

Now for most thinking people nobody has to defend either Gabrielle Giffords or Lara Logan, but I am going to just in case there are some who actually believe that this idiot has a point.

Gabrielle Giffords was in her third term as a Democratic Congresswoman in the reddest of states, stood up to both Sarah Palin and a Teabagging opponent chosen specifically to defeat her. She was also gaining national attention as a possible candidate for an Arizona Senate seat even before the shooting.  While it is true that the attempted assassination made her name a household word, she was already "shaking" her part of the world even BEFORE Jared Loughner put a bullet in her head.

As for Lara Logan...Jesus, I cannot believe I even have to write this.

Lara Logan is a well respected journalist who has been embedded with the troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan virtually since the two wars first began.  She has reported on some of the harshest fighting in those war zones, and taken some of the most dangerous risks imaginable to bring the news of what it is like to be a soldier in those extreme environments to the people back home.

She also received quite a lot of attention when she criticized Michael Hastings Rolling Stone article because she felt it would keep commanders from providing access to reporters in the future.

I did not always agree with Logan's take on the two wars, but I certainly believe she earned her place on the Newsweek list of "150 Women Who Shake the World."

And you know THIS is exactly how you differentiate between somebody who is a regular commentator making a salient point about how Sarah Palin might have been treated unfairly, and a flying monkey.

The flying monkey seems to channel the darkness and venom that broils inside of the Grizzled Mama and to use it to attack and demonize her critics or those seen as possible competition.  A true Palin-bot cannot simply say "This is unfair!" They have to say "This is unfair, and THAT person does not deserve what my Queen cannot have!"

It is almost as if Sarah is some kind of Palin-poltergeist who invades the psyche's of her supporters and uses them as a vessel to launch an attack on those who dare to take what is hers, or who reveal something painfully true and purposefully hidden that she does not want others to see.

In fact sometimes her sycophants sound so eerily like her (Or her emotional doppelganger RAM) that if you close your eyes you simply cannot tell the difference.

Politically Palin is finished in my opinion, but her poison is still working its way through the veins of our national discourse, damaging the process and scarring innocent bystanders as it goes, and the sooner we figuratively cut off the serpents head the better for all of us.