PALIN GOES GRACIOUS

An interesting article in the New York Times. In the first two paragraphs,

I got a lesson in civility, grace under pressure and general human fellowship recently from, of all people, Sarah Palin. ... I’m not talking about lessons learned from her book, but rather from her televised interview with Oprah Winfrey.

Five paragraphs later,

We’ve been seeing and hearing the extreme edge of nastiness politically ever since the summer, when the boorishly boisterous “tea parties” began. ... Sarah Palin hasn’t helped matters much with her continued talk of “haters,” and there was plenty of hatred lurking not so very far beneath the surface in interviews with die-hard Palin book buyers

Notice the unconscious bias: the belief that disagreement the liberal position must be taken as “hate.” I’ve been to three Tea Parties, including the 100,000+ protest at the Washington DC mall, and while I’ve listened to strong opinions, none has been remotely “hateful.”

Read the whole article.