Geez. Attention, conservatives: “impotent” and “limp” have been added to our list of banned words. Ruth Marcus:

I resisted. Really, I did. I saw Sarah Palin at the Glenn Beck rally and barely mentioned her. Bristol made it onto Dancing with the Stars (I guess this makes Bristol a star), and I stayed mum. Not a word about Palin’s plans to go to Iowa. And I had no intention of mentioning the nasty new Vanity Fair piece about Palin — not even the “roughly $3,000 worth of underwear” supposedly purchased for her by the RNC or the alleged hurling of canned good during a typical Sarah-Todd spat.
But then she goes and does it again. Makes me write about her.
Two words made me do it. “Impotent” and “limp.”
As in Palin’s comments to Sean Hannity about the Vanity Fair piece: “Those who are impotent and limp and gutless and they go on their anonymous — sources that are anonymous — and impotent, limp and gutless reporters take anonymous sources and cite them as being factual references.”
As it happens, I think Palin had a legitimate beef with the Vanity Fair piece. It was very short on identified sources. You could hear a lot of axes being ground in the background.
But couldn’t she have chosen different adjectives? The Vanity Fair writer, Michael Joseph Gross, is gay, which makes matters worse — conjuring the stereotype of “limp-wristed.” But whatever the sexual orientation of the offending reporter, Palin should not have been questioning his manhood.