Palin Throwing Hissy In (Another) Fauxrage

"Iconic image"? Kinda like Madonna and Child, or maybe Mona Lisa? Geez o'pete this lady is delusional. Via Ben-

Sarah Palin is again responding forcefully to a perceived attack on one of her children, this time attacking an Alaska blogger who edited a picture of her and her baby son, Trig, to replace Trig's face with the image of a conservative Alaska talk show host, Eddie Burke.

Emails Palin's spokesman Meghan Stapleton:

Recently we learned of a malicious desecration** of a photo of the Governor and baby Trig that has become an iconic representation of a mother's love for a special needs child.

The mere idea of someone doctoring the photo of a special needs baby is appalling. To learn that two Alaskans did it is absolutely sickening. Linda Kellen Biegel, the official Democrat Party blogger for Alaska, should be ashamed of herself and the Democratic National Committee should be ashamed for promoting this website and encouraging this atrocious behavior.

Babies and children are off limits. It is past time to restore decency in politics and real tolerance for all Americans. The Obama Administration sets the moral compass for its party. We ask that special needs children be loved, respected and accepted and that this type of degeneracy be condemned.

** Desecration (also called desacralization or desanctification) is the act of depriving something of its sacred character -- or the disrespectful or contemptuous treatment of that which is held to be sacred by a group or individual.

Total loon.

McCain: DHS report 'insulting'

Could someone wake up Grampapa and let him know that this fauxrage is sooo last week. They've moved on.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is calling on the Obama administration to apologize to veterans over a recently released Department of Homeland Security report warning that “right-wing extremists” will attempt to “radicalize returning veterans.”

“The last people on earth we need to worry about are our veterans,” McCain said during an interview Monday night with Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren. “It’s insulting.”

“Timothy McVeigh didn't learn to make that huge bomb while he was in the military. He learned it afterwards,” McCain added. “So to point out one veteran who committed an act of atrocity I think is outrageous.”

Lou Dobbs Takes Offense to DHS Looking at Right Wing Extremists Groups

This is all the rage today, false umbrage over those poor veterans being targeted. Glenn sets them on their ears.

Liddy Congressional Grilling Open Thread

Holy crap, it's hard to believe that there is enough space in that room for all the feather preening going on. Gotta love Barney Franks though. He delivered a righteous smackdown to some schmuck who claimed there were never hearings before the first moneys went out. I'll put the vid up when I get it. You can stream the hearings here. Pic stolen from TPM.