Ayers, meet AIP

As David Talbot writes in Salon:

Imagine the uproar if Michelle Obama was revealed to have joined a black nationalist party whose founder preached armed secession from the United States and who enlisted the government of Iran in his cause? The Obama campaign would probably not have survived such an explosive revelation. Particularly if Barack Obama himself was videotaped giving the anti-American secessionists his wholehearted support just months ago.

Where's the outrage, Sarah Palin has been asking this week, in her attacks on Obama's fuzzy ties to Ayers? The question is more appropriate when applied to her own disturbing associations.

He's right, of course. Todd Palin belonged to the Alaskan Independence Party for seven years. What did their founder say about the USA?

"My government is my worst enemy. I'm going to fight them with any means at hand."

And what did Governor Sarah Palin say to this party just this year?

"Keep up the good work. And God bless you."

Keep up the good work?

And she wants to talk about Ayers and 40 years ago? A claim thoroughly refuted (including by the very paper she cites as her source), as if she gives a damn what's true - this is what she has to bring to the table? Someplace in that book she's so fond of someone says something about motes and planks ...