One more example of how "pro-choice" folks really only support a single choice -- and devalue choices other than the choice to kill.

A roomful of academics erupted in angry boos Tuesday morning after political analyst Michael Barone said journalists trashed Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republicans' vice presidential nominee, because "she did not abort her Down syndrome baby."

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Barone was speaking at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, to the 121st annual meeting of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, which calls itself the nationÂ’s oldest higher-education association.

“The liberal media attacked Sarah Palin because she did not abort her Down syndrome baby," Barone said, according to accounts by attendees. "They wanted her to kill that child. ... I'm talking about my media colleagues with whom I've worked for 35 years.”

Barone, a popular speaker on the paid lecture circuit, is a senior writer for U.S. News & World Report and principal coauthor of “The Almanac of American Politics."

Now Barone has come back and claimed that his statement was a joke -- but I don't see where one could find anything even remotely funny in what said. Indeed, his words seem to confirm what we saw in the days following the Alaska governor's selection as John McCain's vice presidential running mate. After all, there were repeated sexist attacks against Palin questioning her fitness as a mother for accepting McCain's invitation, including questions about her decision to have her special needs child (when they weren't questioning if she is actually the baby's mother) and whether Trig was being used as a prop. Such coverage is very consistent with Barone's claim -- so discerning folks must conclude that Barone was revealing an inconvenient truth about the lack of objectivity in our "objective media", not making a joke that fell flat.

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