The Circular Firing Squad Is Locked And Loaded

Sorry for the indirect link, but FoxNews has either deleted or very thoroughly buried the video of their own reporter outing every nasty story McCain staffers now want to push about Gov. Palin on O'Reilly. Scroll past the HuffPo commentary and watch it for yourself. All of this presumably happened behind closed doors, so I don't know if we'll ever find out definitively whether she really was ignorant of Africa's status as a continent containing multiple countries rather than a single country. If she was, and you wanted a one sentence summary of why someone would be unqualified for VP, that would serve nicely.

But much of it is trivial, meanspirited and even sexist -- e.g. had a male candidate answered a hotel room door for his own campaign staff in a towel, with his spouse present, I'm certain it would not be a story worth repeating, let alone being "shocked" by. She's been a competitive athlete and has done sports reporting -- these things will make you more comfortable with folks in towels. If they were trying to make me sympathize with her and disbelieve anything the McCain staffers say, this is a pretty damn good place to start. Plus the clothing thing is beyond played out. I've got to admit though, "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman-Marcus from coast to coast" is a pretty funny line.