Huffington Post writer Shannyn Moore has a new hit piece up about Sarah Palin. She thinks Palin is a hypocrite for supporting gun rights, but then hiring private security to pat people down before they get close to her.

On the public dock, private security patted down private citizens. The Fourth Amendment protects citizens from unreasonable search and seizure from their government. Private security searching private citizens in a public place, doesn’t fall under that category. It’s a bit more hinky.

Whether it was TLC or the Palins who contracted security, under what authority did they operate in a public location? Were they looking for weapons? Well, now there’s a Second Amendment issue.

This is Alaska, we carry guns. You can open-carry or acquire a concealed weapons permit from the state. If you are a law abiding citizen, you don’t even need a permit. Sarah Palin recently endorsed Alaska Tea Party Candidate Joe Miller for US Senate. His supporters carried assault rifles in last month’s Golden Days Parade in Fairbanks. If weapons are good enough for a public parade, weapons should be fine at a public dock.

This is really too absurd to bother refuting point by point, but I just thought people should see what passes as lucid thoughts on the left.

The first thing I noticed about Obama’s dog and pony show press conference was the staged question from The Huffington Post about Iran.

It was obvious the president knew what the question was before hand which kind of defeats the purpose of a press conference.

Politico says of the exchange:

Reporters typically don’t coordinate their questions for the president before press conferences, so it seemed odd that Obama might have an idea what the question would be. Also, it was a departure from White House protocol by calling on The Huffington Post second, in between the AP and Reuters.

Like everything else with Obama, his press conferences are perfectly coordinated Hollywood productions that are of little actual value.

The award for lamest front page goes to…HuffPo!

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That incredibly lame front page links to assorted pictures of Obama shirtless in Hawaii.