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    Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 2:57 PM | By Emily Bazelon
    See, Meghan and Melinda, this is why I felt like a scourge fretting over those Palin SNL sketches (actually scold would have been a better choice of words, as a Slate colleague just pointed out). You're both decoding with greater sophistication than I am. I did get that Alec Baldwin was playing his 30 Rock character. I just didn't want him to do that to our potential vice president. Yes, it was funny, and her deadpan response was, too, but not funny enough to trump the grossness for me. Meghan, that's a great point about how Baldwin forced us to think about what we say about Palin behind her back by saying it to her face. But in the end, he was still insulting her while she listened. Which left her with no dignified ground to stand on, as Alessandra Stanley pointed out in the NYT. Maybe that's all well and good for democracy, writ small at least, because it's another data point about Palin before voters go to the polls. But when I pore over the Palin tea leaves for clues about the future of women in politics, I don't really like what I see.
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