"Bedtime for BOZO"?! Sarah Palin Takes a Dump on the Legacy of Ronald Reagan?Isn't That Sacrilege? And Where's the Right-Wing Outrage?

Good Grief! I'm no Reagan-worshipper (we all know that type), nor even a conservative or a republican, but even I know that the title of one of Ronald Reagan's old films is Bedtime for Bonzo (from 1951 and starring Reagan as a professor who tries to treat a chimpanzee like a human child) and that Reagan was in a whole slew of Hollywood pictures, not just Bonzo (ever heard of Knute Rockne, All American?). And so when I saw for the first time today some recent comments of Sarah Palin, I was rolling!

It seems that Palin was on Fox News last week trying to defend her celebrity-like status and her upcoming TLC reality series, "Sarah Palin's Alaska." Said Sarah:

"Wasn't Ronald Reagan an actor? Wasn't he in 'Bedtime for Bonzo,' Bozo, or something? Ronald Reagan was an actor."

I repeat my question from the top: "Bozo"?! What, was Palin mixing up the Reagan film with her own reality series (if the Bozo fits...)? And doesn't it sound like Palin was completely unaware that Reagan was ever in any other film?!

But here's the thing: Those flubs are not even the part of this that you would think would rile up conservatives. First, conservatives don't like it when people focus on the fact that Reagan was an actor. Moreover, Palin's flippant comments could be read as suggesting that Reagan brought little more to politics and to the White House than his acting skills.

And sure enough, that's precisely how right-leaning Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan took Palin's comments. In Noonan's linked column, she kind of tears Palin a new one, so to speak, but in Noonan's high-brow style rather through a full frontal assault -- although Noonan does send "nincompoop" and "ignorant" blasts Palin's way (which is pretty damn direct for Noonan).

Final question: Why -- if Palin made these comments last week -- have I not heard any conservative talking heads or writers talking about them until today (and I don't even think of Noonan as necessarily being a "conservative")? I'd think the conservatives would be outraged?

Are they just too afraid of incurring the wrath of Palin's rather small but extremely devoted fanbase, or do conservatives prefer to occupy their time attacking only non-conservatives (including fellow republicans) rather than fellow conservatives (even when they disagree)? I suspect both factors are strongly at play here.

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