Julia Reed, Vogue political go-to scribe is currently over at wowOwow weighing-in on, you guessed it, the media's coverage of Sarah Palin and she comes firmly down on the side of "it was sexist!"

Where was the feminist outcry? Plenty of Republican women were sickened over the treatment of Hillary Clinton (hell, even I cried at the video that introduced her convention speech), but there has been no reaching across party lines to defend Palin. Not even when Martin Peretz dismissed and demeaned her by saying, "I give [Palin] her due: she is pretty like a cosmetics saleswoman at Macy's." If he had said that about someone who agrees with them on the issues, Steinem et al would have gone crazy. And therein lies the real truth. All the opiners who called the choice "insulting" (including my friend Sally Quinn before her about-face) really meant that it was not a choice that they would have made; she is not a woman who thinks or votes like them, she is pro-life, not pro-choice. (I too am pro-choice, but I respect the choices of other people — especially one, like Palin, who walks her talk.) Apparently only those women are worthy of defending. When so many of the most vocal critics weighed in by calling Palin a "cynical" choice, I had to ask myself, “Who is really being cynical here?