QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 3:31 A.M. ET:  You know, you can go after a candidate for public office, but going after the candidate's kids is pretty low stuff...except, apparently, at MSNBC.  Keith Olbermann recently attacked, not Sarah Palin, but her daughter, Bristol.   But Bristol snapped back at the Olber-bully, and we cheer, very loudly:

Bristol Palin has used her Facebook page to hit back at MSNBC's Keith Olbermann for his Monday night declaration that the eldest Palin daughter was his "Worst Person in the World."

Olbermann was criticizing Palin, who is a teenage mother, for her role as an abstinence advocate.

Proving herself a surprising wordsmith, Palin wrote, "Accusing me of hypocrisy is by now, an old canard. What Mr. Olbermann lacks in originality he makes up for with insincere incredulity. Mr. Olbermann fails to understand that in order to have credibility as a spokesperson, it sometimes takes a person who has made mistakes."

She continues: "I have never claimed to be perfect. If that makes me the 'worst person in the world' to Mr. Olbermann, then I must apologize for not being absolutely faultless like he undoubtedly must be."

COMMENT:  Good for you, Bristol.  What was Olbermann thinking?  Well wait.  That assumes he thinks.

Rule of thumb in show business:  Never follow a children's act or an animal act.  Rule of thumb in politics:  Never criticize someone's child. 

FDR once made mincemeat of the Republicans in a now-classic speech defending "my little dog, Fala," who had gotten a ride on a Navy destroyer.  The press ate it up.

I suspect that Olbermann, right now, is researching someone's hamster.

December 3, 2010