I’m going to briefly revert to youth and say that the reason for this post is, “She started it.”

On FoxNews on Monday, Sarah Palin was interviewed again.  And again, she spews her divisive rhetoric.

I really had left her behind.  I mean, she flew back to Alaska, and I was pretty sure that all her hate speeches would keep her from being a real contender in 2012.  I mean - Real America?  Please.  It was time this blog was moving on.

But apparently, not before a parting shot.  It appears she is expanding her opinion of the “elite liberal media”:

In a wide-ranging interview Monday with Fox News’ Greta van Susteren in which she said “God” would show her the way to the White House, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin decried bloggers “sitting in their parents’ basement, wearing their pajamas” for some of the questions that were raised about her credibility.

What?

Seriously, is she really saying this?  Does she not know that millions upon millions of people blog, from liberal New York to backwater Mississippi?  From Livejournal to Blogger to the newspapers themselves.  Blogging is a new media, and it is used as not only a news source, but as a personal diary, for hundreds of millions of Americans.  It isn’t just kids, either:

If we constrain ourselves to sites that have constantly-added narrative content and do allow user feedback, we’re still in the millions of blogs, people ranging from pre-teens to senior citizens, with the bulk of bloggers in their late teens to 50 or thereabouts.

Men, women, old, young, gay, straight, religious, atheist, farmers, politicians, liberals, conservatives.  They all blog.

Andrew Sullivan, of the Atlantic, talks about why he blogs.  I’m betting he’s not in his pajamas while he’s blogging, either.

Penelope Trunk, mother, entrepeneur, in her own home, and not in pajamas, has a very successful blog called Brazen Careerist, and includes posts such as “Making Time for a Blog and a Full-Time Job.”  Because, realistically, that is what the majority of bloggers are doing.  Oh, and her column appears in various newspapers - you know, the liberal elite media.

So, I’m sorry to disabuse you of the facts, Sarah, but a goodly number of “them bloggers” are average people in REAL America - with jobs, ideas, their own homes, their own kids, and hopes about our future. You know - the ones growing our food, working in our companies and factories, keeping the rest of the world afloat while you coast on by with a wink.  Some of them may have voted for you too.

The fact that most of them questioned your record and credibility says something about YOU, not them.  Bloggers weren’t the only people questioning your credibility - most of America was, and still is.  I think they told you so in their votes.