The condescension on display toward a mother of five, a former beauty queen, a moose hunter and lifelong member of the National Rifle Association, a conservative Christian, and, to top it off, someone who attended school at the University of Idaho was palpable. Here was an alien. And when fighting aliens, no rules apply.
As if to prove our point, Vanity Fair gave the following title to Todd Purdum's attack on Palin: "It Came From Wasilla." The title is a play on the 1953 sci-fi movie, "It Came from Outer Space."
