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“Free Sarah Palin!”

Campbell Brown decries the "sexist treatment" of Gov. Pit Bull by her own campaign.

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Jezebel reports that CNN’s Campbell Brown, whom you may remember from films such as “Tucker Bounds and the Chamber of Lameness,” last night “got her Olbermann on … and ranted us into fangirldom.”

Brown’s beef: Gov. Sarah Palin has been the victim of sexism — by her own campaign, which has shielded its V.P. pick from the media like the “delicate flower” that she very clearly isn’t. I’m not quite as ga-ga as Jez is here, as Campbell’s rant lacks the rhetorical wink showing us that she knows what we all do: that the real reason Palin isn’t talkingespecially while on her embarrassing Meet World Leaders! whirlwind tour — is not because she has no Y chromosome, but because she has no goddamn clue. Still, it’s a satisfying/infuriating way to pass 1.3 minutes before Nov. 4.

By Lynn Harris

Award-winning journalist Lynn Harris is author of the comic novel "Death by Chick Lit" and co-creator of BreakupGirl.net. She also writes for the New York Times, Glamour, and many others.

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