“The energy needed to refute BS is of an order of magnitude greater than the effort needed to produce the BS in the first place. ”
Brandolini’s law
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Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded -- here and there, now and then -- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck." -- Robert A. Heinlein
On the North River 
The media didn’t just hate Palin because she was a conservative Republican woman. They hated her because she was attractive, charismatic, and the mother of a young family. They hated her because she was not a hypocrite, especially about abortion. They hated her because a lot of ordinary Americans liked her, despite her rustic affectations and awkward public presence. And they hated her because she was totally indifferent to the approval of the East Coast establishment, and she wasn’t afraid to laugh in its face and call out its vapidity and duplicity.
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Another difference. Sarah was tough. Sarah could take it and dish it back.
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