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Leave it to Mr. Warren to find the silver lining in the cloud that is Mallick’s anti-Palin screed:

I think Ms Mallick expresses openly what many, quite possibly most of her MSM colleagues are actually thinking, and in my experience, actually saying in social gatherings and while working away from the microphones — though seldom with such ebullience. Ms Mallick is rare in being so refreshingly candid, on the record.

Where such prejudices as hers exist, it is an advantage to everyone to have them expressed openly, discussed openly, demolished openly. Far worse is the poison in people who think like Ms Mallick, but contain themselves within the shallow literary conventions of “journalistic objectivity.”

I actually enjoy reading Ms Mallick’s blow-outs. I laugh out loud at many of her phrases and juxtapositions — the more, the farther they go “over the top” — and wince only when I think she has missed a good chance to shoot even higher.

Moreover, her assertions are often so malignantly unreasonable that one may extract some truth by reversing them. And her half-truths must necessarily contain some modest corn seed of reality. Laughter is an excellent guide: for truth is near, wherever there is spontaneous laughter.

He raises a good point. As vitriolic and hateful as Mallick’s hit piece obviously was, it did serve to cast her in the role of our — by “our,” I mean normal, reasonable, rational folk — canary in the coal mine, our first indicator of the malice that lurks beneath the skin of almost everyone in the media, whose contempt for Sarah Palin and the wholesome values she represents can only be measured in job lots.

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