Isn't it about time for the Big One to hit?

Liberal "tolerance" in action:

It might as well have cooties. Hardly anyone wants to touch the thing, or even get close to it.

The new autobiography by moose hunter and failed vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is harder to find in the Bay Area than a hockey mom. Some bookstores figure it's one of those grit-your-teeth First Amendment deals that principled booksellers must put up with from time to time.

"Anything like that we wouldn't carry," said clerk Emily Stackhouse. "We're a small store and it would probably gross us all out. Some things you carry because of freedom of speech, but a book like that is just gross."

The mating cry of the West Coast liberal: "Freedom of choice in all things! Unless we think it's gross."

The large chains have got modest supplies of the book and, so far, the sales have been equally modest.

O RLY? Hrm...

Publisher HarperCollins said Friday that Sarah Palin's memoir sold 300,000 copies its first day, among the best openings ever for a nonfiction book. In 2004, Bill Clinton's "My Life" debuted with sales of 400,000 copies. The year before, Hillary Rodham Clinton's "Living History" started at 200,000.

"Going Rogue" was released this week and its print run already has been increased from 1.5 million copies to 2.5 million, HarperCollins announced Friday.

To be fair, SFGate is a local rag and thus was probably referring only to local sales. But it's not exactly shocking news that a conservative book doesn't sell well in the leftist capital of the United States, now is it?

But wait; there's more. Look at this update of the above AP blurb:

"Going Rogue" sold 700,000 copies — a number that includes pre-orders — in its first week of release, according to a publishing official close to the former Alaska governor. The official was not authorized to release the sales figure and asked not to be identified.

Palin's memoir came out Nov. 17 with a first printing of 1.5 million copies. On Friday, publisher HarperCollins announced that the printing would be increased to 2.5 million.

Few nonfiction books have debuted so well. In 2004, Bill Clinton's "My Life" sold more than 900,000 copies in its first week.

Notice the distinct lack of Hillary-ness, now that Palin has mopped the floor with her. There's also the left-handed comment about "pre-orders," which is not qualified in the sales of Bill Clinton's book. I can't decide if it's comical or insulting that they think we can't see through this sort of juvenile editing bias.

That's okay, though: What with Barry on the ropes and bleeding profusely, Nancy Pelosi completely discredited as a Congressional leadership figure, Hillary throwing galas for despots, and Harry Reid unable to complete sentences, it's slowly dawning on the liberal press that they're standing in quicksand -- and the only nearby help are all conservatives.

Think quickly, little journalists; quicksand is a gruesome death.

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(Based upon an item in James Taranto's Best of the Web Today)