Adam here. I have noticed a trend that is really starting to annoy me. First, a little back story:

Sarah Palin is being mocked by lots of people in the media because of all the hemming and hawing whenever she is trying to think of a politically correct answer to a question. The segments of Katie Couric's interview with her are a perfect example of this. While this is embarrassing for Governor Palin, I have no problem with that part. If you agree to an interview with any reporter (or anchor, in this case), then you should be prepared for difficult questions. Well, unless you are Barack "Media's Golden Child" Obama. In that case, plan for a softballs and hero worship. For super conservative candidates, plan for the worst. Anyway, the clips that CBS has released of the Couric/Palin interview have shown that Sarah did not do well with the difficult questions. Fine. She is not very polished. We get it.

The trend that really annoys me is how the dumbest people I know are making fun of Sarah Palin's perceived intelligence. On the news last night, they had the following quote from an old woman in a barber salon in Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood: "She don't even talk right." SERIOUSLY? Someone here is a pot, and someone here is a kettle, old woman. I will let you pick which one you are. Also, shouldn't she be at a hair salon rather than being the only woman getting her hair cut in a barber shop?

Another event happened this morning, at work. One of my coworkers was criticizing how Sarah Palin did in the debate last night via the following sentence: "She did terrible. She can't even talk with the good right grammar." Mind you, this is a person to whom I regularly have to explain things that I take for granted as general knowledge. She also regularly asks me how to spell words. She is in her mid-thirties, by the way.

I would point out the staggering irony to those people who provided these examples, but I don't feel like explaining the concept of irony to so many people. All I can do is wonder why these people (and so many others) think they can mock someone for not appearing smart when they have proven on many occasions to be far less intelligent than the person who is the object of their derision.

New life rule: You don't get to make fun of the intelligence of someone else unless you are demonstrably smarter than they are.

I can't wait until the election is over so I don't have to constantly hear about all of this every day. I guess that is the plight of those who are completely burned out on politics. All I can do is shake my head from the sidelines at the contradictions and stupidity that permeate our entire political system.