In Which I Say Something Nice About Sarah Palin

. . . for a change. (And that's change you can believe in!)

I am watching a program called View from the Right on CNN International, with David Brody, Stephen Hayes, David Madden, and a couple other conservative pundits. One of them just referred to the fact that Gov. Palin "can see Russia" as a reason not to present her as a foreign policy expert.

Amazing, isn't it, that Republican pundits have assimilated Tina Fey to the point that they attribute her joke to Gov. Palin? Because Gov. Palin never said "I can see Russia from my house." That was Tina Fey on SNL.

Of course, Gov. Palin did say a lot of silly stuff, but nothing quite that deliberately stupid. After all, Wasilla is on the mainland, in the Mat-Su Valley, and not on the island that shares a maritime border with Russia.

Just interesting, isn't it, how such a claim not made by the candidate can come to so thoroughly permeate the national discourse . . . Not unlike the claim that Al Gore said he invented the internet (which, likewise, he never actually claimed to have done) . . .