Michael Kinsley denies that the liberal reaction to Palin has at all partaken of snobbery. Martin Peretz’s crack about how Palin “is pretty like a cosmetics saleswoman at Macy’s” doesn’t count for Kinsley, because Peretz isn’t a conventional liberal. (Note, however, that Kinsley doesn’t find it worth criticizing Peretz; nor has the often contentious gang at The New Republic, where Peretz’s comment was aired.) “Show Me the Snobs” is Kinsley’s headline. Ok: Peretz; Bill Maher; Hanna Rosin; Leon Wieseltier; Roger Ebert; Richard Cohen. Note that Kinsley used to edit two of the publications from which I draw my examples, and published his post in another.