Normally, I think it's best that colossal stupidity and harrowing evil be marginalized. Like the absurd demonstrations of the Westboro Baptist Church, which qualified on both criteria. Or pastor [name omitted to marginalize the guilty]'s Koran-burning farce in (I'm ashamed to say it) Florida, which probably qualifies as one or the other, but not both. Better to ignore them, and let them fade into obscurity, because ignomy shines just as brightly as praise, if not more. There's no such thing as bad publicity for crackpots.
But in this case it's different. Palin already has the limelight - 5 million viewers demonstrated that quite clearly when her reality show debuted in November - and people everywhere are saying with a straight face that she might be a contender in the 2012 presidential election. So it is of paramount importance that she be exposed for the ignorant moron she is. If nothing else, check out this transcript:
GRETA: Governor, last night there was a lot of discussion about the Sputnik Moment the President wants us to have. Do you agree with him? Is this our moment?
PALIN: That was another one of those WTF moments, when he has so often repeated, the Sputnik Moment, that he would aspire Americans to celebrate, he needs to remember that what happened back then with the former communist USSR and their victory and that race to space, yeah, they won, but they also incured so much debt at the time that it resulted in the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union so I listen to that Sputnik Moment talk over and over again and I think, no we don’t need one of those.
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