When you’ve got HuffPo offering us the trenchant political wisdom of such esteemed thinkers as Alec Baldwin, Brigitte Bardot and Madonna, you know it’s only a matter of time until someone hauls a camera crew into the prison facility where they’re holding Charlie Manson and asks him what he thinks of McCain’s running mate, Governor Sarah Palin.

HuffPo has a video up of Alec Baldwin ridiculing Palin when he appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher last Friday night. “That’s where she’s the most diseased,” the actor declaims, referring to Palin, “She has the worst strain of that sickening Republican disease…” Baldwin then goes on to mug and wink and pretend to toss his hair for the camera.

It’s not that it’s a man calling a woman diseased (again), or ridiculing feminine behaviors (again), it’s that he’s just not funny. He’s not even a little bit funny. Tina Fey is funny. Alec Baldwin just comes across as a witless thug, sort of how he sounds when he’s verbally abusing his daughter on the phone.

Baldwin’s also the guy who, back in June, argued that Obama was the better candidate than Clinton because more people hate women than hate Blacks. Sounds like projection to me. (sorry, can’t find the link.)

Cut to the next incisive critical analysis of Governor Palin’s qualifications: it’s Brigitte Bardot, French citizen and ’60′s sex symbol, calling Sarah Palin a “disgrace to all women.” Bardot, lately an animal-rights crusader, has been convicted and fined four times for her anti-gay and racist remarks.

HuffPo has also posted a bad handicam audience video of Madonna “going off” on Palin at a concert in New York recently. Madonna refers to her as “Sarah fucking Paling”, and says “get that bitch out of here” to a crowd of screaming fans.

More on the diseased-woman theme: David Brooks says Governor Palin represents a “fatal cancer” in the Republican party. Why? Because, he says, she’s “incurious”, and “anti-intellectual,” like George Bush. But he liked Bush, didn’t he? He likes McCain and Obama and Biden, too. Palin, though? She’s “a cancer”.

I know, I know—we all remember the audio clip of Governor Palin on that radio show in Alaska where the shock jock host calls her political adversary Lyda Green a “bitch” and a “cancer,” and Palin laughs nervously but doesn’t raise an objection. Well, I’ve been in that position and reacted the same way, and I can tell you for certain, I will never react with nervous laughter in that situation again, and I bet you Sarah Palin won’t either.

But how come we’re hearing what all these freaks and weirdos think of Sarah Palin? Why should we care what they think about anything? Theirs is not opinion that we want or need, and HuffPo’s promotion of this tripe gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, “Breaking News.”