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JAMES TARANTO: Palinoia, The Destroyer: What?s behind the left?s deranged hatred. Professional ?

By Glenn Reynolds

JAMES TARANTO: Palinoia, The Destroyer: What’s behind the left’s deranged hatred.

Professional jealousy and intellectual snobbery, however, only scratch the surface of the left’s bizarre attitude toward Palin. They explain the intensity of the disdain, but not the outright hatred–not why some people whose grasp of reality is sufficient to function in society made the insane inference that she was to blame for a madman’s attempt to murder Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

This unhinged hatred of Palin comes mostly from women. . . . What about male Palin-hatred? It seems to us that it is of decidedly secondary importance. Liberal men put down Palin as a cheap way to score points with the women in their lives, or they use her as an outlet for more-general misogynistic impulses that would otherwise be socially unacceptable to express.

Women are always meanest to other women.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 20, 2011 (boomark / email).