Some people questioned the post I ran recently on Sarah Palin and her fabulous imitator, Tina Fey, having forged a friendship of sorts. I questioned it myself, saying it was a rumor covered in grains of salt. Now we know the shaker is full of grains. Friends don’t accuse friends of “exploiting” them. 

As you know, Palin, in her latest series of defensive interviews said – among other things – that Fey and Katie Couric “are exploiting me.” (Oh, and I was so looking forward to the vacation photos of Tina and Sarah, “pal’in around.”)  

As for Katie, Palin has simply never gotten over the “what do you read?” question. But in this latest interview she proves Katie’s point – or at least the point made by Palin’s uncomfortable answer. Gov. Palin seems to be under the impression that Caroline Kennedy, seeking the New York Senate seat, is getting better treatment than she did, because of "class issues."  

See, this is where reading helps. Caroline Kennedy, the last living member of JFK’s “Camelot,” has been savaged from day one. Anybody who has bothered to pick up a newspaper – The New York Times, for instance – would have seen just how badly Caroline has been mocked and questioned and made fun of for her “you knows”!

Sarah makes many other untrue or skewered statements in this interview, but there is no point in getting all excited, trying to prove where she bends the facts, or wishing she would go away. I wrote here months ago, immediately after the Republican Convention that no matter what we thought, or who won the election, Palin had become an instant icon to her party, and a media magnet. She was a woman with a pull so powerful that the press, even all those who thought she was some hick flash-in-the-pan, couldn’t stop themselves from giving her space.

I warned that every critique of Sarah elevated her profile and endeared her even more to her worshippers. I advised everybody – especially MSNBC – to shut up, look away and stop. Nobody took my advice. And they are still covering her every utterance and public appearance. And so do I! Some of these events – like the incredible turkey incident – are followed by jokes and put-downs. But Sarah has been seen, yet again, all over the newspapers, all over cable. One who is covered so thoroughly must be pretty important, yes?

Well, thanks to all of us in the media who have relentlessly yukked it up over her, yes, you betcha, she’s important. 

The elevation of Sarah Palin by the very people who disdain her is “hoist with your own petard” to the max.

Perhaps the next time Palin gives an interview, Keith and Rachel and Chris and me, and all others who find her so absurd, will … not mention it.     
If a Palin falls on deserted Alaskan tundra, does it make a sound? Why don’t liberal media give that a thought?

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