Rachel Maddow Slams Palin's Attack on Bloggers (In Her Pajamas No Less)

Posted by Ali Frick, Think Progress at 3:14 AM on November 13, 2008.

Two nights ago, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow showed a clip of Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) complaining about being criticized by "some blogger" sitting "in their parents' basement." Maddow -- who later said she saw herself as "a blogger on TV" -- did the show in her pajamas to show solidarity with bloggers. Watch it:

Conservatives love to blast bloggers. Defending Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Joe Scarborough mocked bloggers "just sitting there, eating Cheetos" in "their underwear," while Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) complained that bloggers add "vituperation toxicity" to the political debate.

Editor's Update: Here's what Jane Hamsher over at FireDogLake had to say about Palin's comments:

Uh, Sarah….You Sure You Want To Go There?

For the record:

Arianna Huffington graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. At 21, she became president of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union.  She is a bestselling author who ran for Governor of California.

Markos Moulitsas served in the U.S. Army from 1989 through 1992. He earned two bachelor degrees at Northern Illinois University (1992-1996), where he majored in Philosophy, Journalism, and Political Science. He earned a J.D. at Boston University School of Law.<

Duncan Black earned a Ph.D. in economics from Brown University in 1999. He has worked at the London School of Economics, the Université catholique de Louvain, the University of California, Irvine, and Bryn Mawr College.

John Aravosis has a joint law degree and masters in foreign service from Georgetown.  He worked on Capitol Hill as a foreign policy adviser for Ted Stevens.  He also worked at the World Bank, the Children's Defense Fund, and wrote for The Economist.

Faiz Shakir holds a B.A. in government from Harvard University and a J.D. from the Georgetown Law Center. He previously worked as a Research Associate for the Democratic National Committee, a Legislative Aide to Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL) on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, and a Communications Aide in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

I have a masters' degree in film business from USC, produced major motion pictures and wrote a best selling book.

How would Sarah feel if someone called her an ignorant, freeloading bubble headed piece of trailer park trash whose daddy told the AP she spent the weekend scrambling to return her stolen clothes to the RNC?

Just trying to keep a sense of perspective here.

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Ali Frick is a Research Associate for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.