Gary Hubbell: The Redneck Tree Hugger | AspenTimes.com

Gary Hubbell: The Redneck Tree Hugger | AspenTimes.com: "My wife was on her way to the post office this morning with a stack of bills to be mailed, and she waved one for $41.86 at me. It was for a two-year renewal of my subscription to Newsweek. “Do you want to renew this?” she said. “Not on your life,” I laughed.

Newsweek's cover photo of Sarah Palin in workout gear was the last straw. After featuring stories in the last few months suggesting that your baby is born racist; Obama isn't going far enough in his leftist agenda; cap-and-trade is a good idea; it doesn't matter if Iran gets nuclear weapons; and anything negative about universal health care coverage is all lies, lies, lies — well, I am not going to pay for that.

Newsweek was so willing to take any shot to marginalize Sarah Palin, to get their digs in any way they could, that they lowered their reputation even further than it already was in a tawdry effort to demean her. Any shred of journalistic integrity at the magazine is now squandered, but Newsweek apparently thought it was worth it.

It's kind of like the guy whose wife has cleaned him out in divorce court, and he takes a gun and shoots her and the lawyer, knowing he's going to spend the rest of his life in prison, feeling redeemed.

Liberals hate — HATE — Sarah Palin, and they're willing to make fools out of themselves to press the point. Liberals hate Sarah Palin even worse than the “angry white men” I wrote about in February 2008 hate Hillary Clinton. When you press a liberal and ask them what they hate so much about Sarah Palin, they sputter and have to keep from swallowing their tongues. “She's so STUPID,” they froth, “and she … she … is so ANNOYING. And she barely got out of COLLEGE. And she's PRO-LIFE! And SHE HUNTS! SHE KILLS THINGS! And her husband RACES SNOWMOBILES!”"