Julia Reed: Was Sarah Palin the 'Right' Target?

Julia Reed, Vogue political go-to scribe is currently over at wowOwow weighing-in on, you guessed it, the media’s coverage of Sarah Palin and she comes firmly down on the side of “it was sexist!”

Where was the feminist outcry? Plenty of Republican women were sickened over the treatment of Hillary Clinton (hell, even I cried at the video that introduced her convention speech), but there has been no reaching across party lines to defend Palin. Not even when Martin Peretz dismissed and demeaned her by saying, “I give [Palin] her due: she is pretty like a cosmetics saleswoman at Macy’s.”
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