I’m getting a lot of indignant left-wing e-mail for my statement yesterday re Palin: “It certainly is true that nobody in public life in recent memory has been as shabbily treated as she has.”

The gist of the complaints is that some right-wingers said mean things about Hillary Clinton or Janet Reno or some such. And it’s true, some mean and unfair things were said about those folks. But I think a lot of these lefties seem oblivious to the fact that the New York Times, the news networks (minus Fox), David Letterman, et al aren’t supposed to be scored as partisan outlets, but they are. And they’ve gone after Palin and her family in ways that I think are particularly egregious. Complaining about Richard Mellon Scaife’s treatment of the Clintons is perfectly fair. But comparing it to the mainstream and “respectable” assaults on Palin is not persuasive.