I'm declaring February a Palin-free month. Join me! (Milbank | WaPo)

[struggle4progress]

By Dana Milbank
Friday, January 21, 2011

... I hereby pledge that, beginning on Feb. 1, 2011, I will not mention Sarah Palin -- in print, online or on television -- for one month. Furthermore, I call on others in the news media to join me in this pledge of a Palin-free February. With enough support, I believe we may even be able to extend the moratorium beyond one month, but we are up against a powerful compulsion, and we must take this struggle day by day ...

I found some hope in last Sunday's New York Times, where columnist Ross Douthat said it is time for the media and Palin to "go their separate ways" and for the press to "stop acting as if she's the most important conservative politician in America." ...

Palin clearly isn't going away: "I am not going to sit down. I'm not going to shut up," she told Hannity on Monday. But if we treat her a little less like a major political figure and a little more like Ann Coulter -- a calculating individual who says shocking things to attract media attention -- it won't matter ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/20/AR2011012004349.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics

[Happyhippychick]

1. I will do it.

[elocs]

2. That would be impossible at Palin obsessed DU. It would never happen here. n/t

[northoftheborder]

3. Thank God for some sense

[rurallib]

4. but - but we will miss the Tawd and the mkassager story.

[struggle4progress]

6. I somehow find myself remarkably uninterested in what Tawd's been doin

[barbiegeek]

5. Not with a sex scandal & 2012 primaries in Iowa are heating up

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Pledging a Palin free month in a Palin titled article???

[Moostache]

8. Who is this "Paylynn" you refer to? (n/t)

[Mira]

9. Recommending this with all my heart...hoping she won't do something

spectacularly over the top smart and then I may have to re-consider

[Turborama]

10. Damn, too late to rec but not too late to....

:kick: !