Fox News hosts make misogynistic comments about female pilot leading air strikes against ISIS. Military veterans write letter condemning them for it. Sarah Palin decides to defend them on Facebook. Just another day in the Right Wing bubble.

Okay so that was what happened on "The Five" last week.

In response sixty military veterans from the United States wrote the following open letter to Eric Bolling and Greg Gutfield. (Or as I call them, Pig 1 and Pig 2.)

Dear Mr. Bolling and Mr. Gutfeld, 

We are veterans of the United States armed forces, and we are writing to inform you that your remarks about United Arab Emirates Air Force Major Mariam Al Mansouri were unwarranted, offensive, and fundamentally opposed to what the military taught us to stand for. 

First, foremost, and most obvious to everyone other than yourselves, your remarks were immensely inappropriate. Your co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle was so right to call attention to an inspiring story of a woman shattering glass ceilings in a society where doing so is immeasurably difficult. We never heard an answer to her question: why did you feel so compelled to “ruin her thing?” 

As it turns out, women have been flying combat aircraft since before either of you were born. Over 1,000 Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) flew during World War II. Seeing as U.S. Army Air Forces Commander “Hap” Arnold said “Now in 1944, it is on the record that women can fly as well as men,” we can probably guess he thought their parking was adequate. The WASP legacy reaches into the present day; on 9/11, then Lt. Heather “Lucky” Penney scrambled her F-16. Completely unarmed, she was ready to lay down her own life to prevent further devastating attacks on American soil. 

Thus the skill of women as fighter pilots is well established. And before you jump to the standby excuse that you were “just making a joke” or “having a laugh,” let the men amongst our number preemptively respond: You are not funny. You are not clever. And you are not excused. Perhaps the phrase “boys will be boys”—inevitably uttered wherever misogyny is present—is relevant. Men would never insult and demean a fellow servicemember; boys think saying the word ‘boobs’ is funny. 

The less obvious implication of your remarks, however, is that by offending an ally and cheapening her contribution, you are actively hurting the mission. We need to send a clear message that anyone, male or female, who will stand up to ISIS and get the job done is worthy of our respect and gratitude. 

We issue an apology on your behalf to Major Al Mansouri knowing that anything your producers force you to say will be contrived and insincere. Major, we’re sincerely sorry for the rudeness; clearly, these boys don’t take your service seriously, but we and the rest of the American public do. 

Now you would think that conservatives, who are usually deifying the military, and republicans who are desperate to woo female voters, would join in this condemnation of what were clearly tasteless comments.

But if you thought that then must not have been paying attention lately.

Just a little over an hour ago Palin posted this:

Which links to a Spectator article that essentially attempts to smear the military veterans who participated in the writing of the letter by accusing them of being tools for the Obama administration.

In the article the point is made that the names of the veterans who signed the letter are "never identified." Which I found confusing, because at the bottom of the letter found on Business Insider was this list of names:  

U.S. Army: Michael Breen, Richard Wheeler, Aryanna Hunter, Welton Chang, Michael Smith, Matt Runyon, Jon Gensler, Scott Holcomb, Terron Sims II, Josh Weinberg, Daniel Savage, Matt Pelak, LaRue Robinson, Anthony Woods, Dustin Cathcart, Kayla Williams, Dan Espinal, Jonathan Hopkins, Andy Moore, Kevin Johnson, Brett Hunt, Russell Galeti, Mick Crnkovich, Jonathan Freeman, Dan Hartnett, Dan Futrell, Matt Zeller, Jason Cain, Adam Tiffen, Sharmistha Mohpatra, Justin Graf, Lach Litwer. 

U.S. Navy: Shawn VanDiver, Andrea Marr, Kristen Kavanaugh, Leo Cruz, Scott Cheney-Peters, Margot Beausey, Tony Johnson, Gail Harris, Alex Cornell du Houx. 

U.S. Marine Corps: Geoff Orazem, Gordon Griffin, Timothy Kudo, Jonathan Murray, Richard Weir, Rob Miller, Sonia Fernandez, John Margolick, Katelyn Geary van Dam, Rob Bracknell, Andrew Borene, William Allen. 

U.S. Air Force: Kelsey Campbell, Erik Brine, Chris Finan, Robert Mishev, Karen Courington. 

U.S. National Guard: Kristen Rouse. 

If they are trying to hide their identities they really suck at it. 

But in the end, to quote our next President, "At this point, what difference does it make?"

Now I have no confidence that this Jeffrey Lord of the Spectator has all of his facts right, but even if each and every one of the veterans who signed that letter were Democrats who all voted for Obama, does that change the points they made in the letter? Does it minimize the fact that what the Fox News hosts said was incredibly insulting to women serving in the military, and women in general?

No, it doesn't.

And one would think, regardless of a woman's political point of view, that they would be unified in their disgust at the remarks made by Bolling and Gutfeld.

Which kind of illustrates just how out of touch Sarah Palin is with her gender.

Time and time again she chooses ideology over biology, putting her partisan viewpoints before any support or even empathy for her gender.

More often than not it seems that Palin is almost in denial of her own sexual identity, and disconnected from the struggles that women have gone through in order to provide the opportunities that she has taken full advantage of in her lifetime.

And this, this was who the Republicans chose to represent women all over the country as the first elected female Vice President.

Gee, what a bummer that didn't work out for them.