It seems to be official now: The Media Research Center will not tolerate any criticism whatsoever of Sarah Palin, especially by conservatives.
On the heels of Mark Finkelstein’s Heathering of conservatives Joe Scarborough and Nicolle Wallace for committing the sin of failing to flatter Palin, MRC vice president Dan Gainor has penned a column focusing solely on bashing Scarborough for daring to criticize Palin:
Each day Scarborough tries to skewer as much as he can of the right and still pretend to be conservative. Scarborough, a former Florida Republican congressman, has become a vocal voice for what he calls ‘Switzerland’ in the cable world – somehow a neutral outlet to both sides. He’s delusional. Scarborough has more RINO (Republican In Name Only) in him than the National Zoo. (Conservatives should also recall during the Cold War that the real Switzerland was no more friendly to the U.S. than Scarborough is to the right.)
Nonting that Sbarborough has expressed a desire to help a “cenrist civility group,” Gainor rants:
Civility? Scarborough doesn’t even know how to spell it. He goes hunting for Palin and other conservatives the way Palin hunts moose, stalking the right each day ready to open fire. Back in August, he bashed the GOP for wanting to rein in illegal immigration. His response was to moan: ‘My party. What happened to my party?’ He concluded his view by claiming: ‘We are going to ban Santa Claus next.’ This after previously calling Arizona’s new anti-illegal immigration law ‘unacceptable and un-American.’
His July attack on Republican Senate candidate Sharon Angle called her ‘a jackass,’ which must mean he’s using a standard MSNBC definition of ‘civility’ in this new group.
But he has particular venom reserved for the former governor of Alaska. He recently told his audience that Palin’s ‘not going to run. It’s The Art of War. The reason she’s saying this is cause she knows she can’t win.’ Then why is she making noises about 2012? ‘I hate to say it – it’s about money,’ he claimed. ‘Hate to say it?’ No he doesn’t. He despises her and loves to say it.
Gainor, it seems, has decided that any criticism of Palin is uncivil and, therefore, forbidden. And it’s clear Gainor has no interest in civility himself.