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There’s an old saying ‘a bad penny always turns up’ and the same could be said, it seems, about one Sarah Palin.  Just when you think she has crawled back to her isolated world up there in Alaska (you betcha), someone gives her yet more tv time!  Why? 

After the disaster that was the pardon a turkey while it’s fellow turkeys were being slaughters in plain view behind her, we all thought that was it.  She was finally humiliated and laughed out of the headlines.  Well, like that perverbial bad penny, she still keeps showing up.

This time she has decided to wear the hat of media watchdog by claiming that the media is being nicer to Caroline Kennedy than they were to her because Ms. Kennedy comes from money.  Last I checked, generally you have to have a good bit of money to not only live in Alaska but to also have five children, a bum of a husband who doesn’t feel like working, a home with a lake view, a private plane, snowmobiles for all family members and the ability to go up in a helicopter to hunt whenever you want.  Had Ms. Palin come out making the arguement that Caroline Kennedy doesn’t have any political experience and that she was being given a free ride because of her name, that might have held water - although it would appear in politics having the Kennedy name can be just as much of a hinderence as a help and Ms. Kennedy has spent a good bit of her life working behind the scenes with charitys, community work (oops, that’s right working with the community means nothing, I forgot), schools, education, etc. - far more than Ms. Let me check out five different universities and settle on being a beauty queen who is handed a job at a local tv station Palin did.

Alas, no.  Sarah Palin decided that she was merely going to come out complaining (what she seems to do best) about how the media massacred her and having nothing bad to say about Caroline Kennedy and that it wasn’t her fault the Katie Couric interview was so bad, it was the campaigns fault because they made her do it.  Um, first of all, if she had become Vice President, she’d have to do tv and radio interviews… albeit Cheney has done a fine job of hiding somewhere.

It would seem that Sarah Palin has yet to accept the fact that people simply did not, and still do not, like her.  She labeled people.  She stereotyped people.  She divided people more than Bush could have hoped for.  She made some of the stupidest comments ever that made Paris Hilton sound like a genius (even Paris never claimed to be able to see another country from her backyard).  Ms. Palin needs to accept the loss, accept that people in the real world outside of Alaska simply do not like her and go back to doing whatever it is she does up there.  Maybe she could help her bum of a future son-in-law get a high school diploma (though she does claim he’s not a high school drop out) now that he doesn’t have a job again. 

She does, however, seem to forget that for the first few weeks of her nomination, the media did not question anything she said or did!  They only touched the surface when they did finally start questioning.  Imagine what she would have been like if the media had attacked her full fo

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