If they (the MSM) do cover it, it will be something like this...

"At a rally today, Republican VP Nominee and ultra-conservative Alaska Governor Sarah Palin exchanged barbs with an anti-war audience member.  When the concerned citizen made a heartfelt comment about the illegal war in Iraq, Palin immediately went on the defensive, throwing her sons politically motivated military service in his face, as she has been heard to do repeatedly on her current 'slimpaign' across the country. "

The PDS is strong in the MSM.

Caught that video on Drudge and watched it a couple times...  absolutely awesome retort.

I'm sure if the MSM covers it, they'll call it staged.

Check and mate?  I'm sorry but this retort hardly qualifies as witty or relevant; a redundancy, I suppose, since in order to be witty, a reply needs to actually address the original remark.

Nor is Palin's retort even remotely original.  This was not an off-the-cuff comeback; it was pulled straight from the oldest, most tired bag of conservative ideology, that because our soldiers fight to protect free speech, there must, therefore, be certain things that we should not use that free speech to say; especially if it is critical of conservative policy.

Now yes, in the abstract, the purpose of the military is to protect the citizenry's basic civil rights - including free speech.  But, to rebut another meme from Talking Points of Modern Conservatism 101, the war in Iraq has nothing, nada, to do with protecting any basic rights of stateside citizens, though it has become extraordinarily common for those who believe the war was a good idea to paradoxically and reflexively accuse those who think it was an atrocious idea of being ingrates - or, even more paradoxically, and as Palin has nicely demonstrated for us, to essentially claim that because the troops are sacrificing themselves for us, we ought to mind our Ps and Qs.

Now all of this might lead to a more in-depth discussion if this article contained some clue as to what the protestor actually yelled.  It was pretty indecipherable in the video as well.  And unless the protestor was yelling "The military sucks!" or "F--- the troops!" - both of which I highly doubt, as only a tiny fringe portion of the left even thinks that way and I imagine any such person would be able to figure out that shouting such things at a Republican rally would be the height of idiocy unless one has no qualms concerning one's physical safety - then Palin's retort just plain misses the mark.  Because frankly, directly insulting the troops is really the only sort of comment for which Palin's reply makes any sort of sense.  Let's say the protestor was shouting "End the war" (I kind of thought that's what it sounded like, but couldn't tell for sure).  In this case, Palin's reply would be a bit of a non sequitur; either that, or it would imply - as many conservatives do seem to believe - that the fact that soldiers are fighting on behalf of our country forecloses the legitimacy of a citizen to have an opinion on how that military - and the tax dollars which keep it equipped - is used.

Now, all of this aside, I do not care for protestors who directly interrupt speakers (except for the college kids who interrupt Ann Coulter, thus sparing everybody present from hearing her shrill, malformed opinions (but I digress)).  And I say bravo to Sarah Palin for confronting the speaker directly; I may despise her politics and her worldview, but that's just something most politicians wouldn't have the cajones to do.  So, kudos.  And I even understand that she's maybe a bit emotional about her son right now, so it just sort of came out the way it did.

But it is in no way a newsworthy moment, nor is it an example of a spontaneous moment of Oscar Wilde-caliber drollery.  It is, rather, the oldest, most unviable conservative talking point in the book, mistakenly construed as clever only because of the shock of hearing it come out of a politicians mouth at a rally, where the sycophancy levels are normally at full-throttle.

Who would have dreamed that when socialism came to the U.S.A.
it would be brought not by Bolsheviks in blue jeans but Wall Street
bankers in Gucci loafers?

To paraphrase a basketball term, Sarah Palin is "nothing but class."

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Shocking!!! NBC reports on this!

Of course, what they said and what they played were very interesting. I believe it was Andrea Mitchell saying that the crowd was reacting angrily at the Palin rally. What she did not say was that they were booing Obama. They also played a little clip from the part where the heckler was yelling, but they did not play the response. I wonder why. Was it more newsworthy to say that Palin was getting negative reactions about her speech without explaining what the crowd's reaction was about or about the response to the heckler. At least Mitchell didn't say she yelled at someone who was expressing their Consitutional right to freedom of expression.

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MAYBE 2012 WILL BE HER YEAR AFTER 4 YEARS OF THE SOCIALIST/COMMUNISTS RAPING THIS COUNTRY AND THAT ELECTION WILL LITERALLY BE A BLOODY ONE.

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