Probably the person who has damaged her most, apart from perhaps the CBS anchor Katie Couric who elicited blank stares when she asked what Mrs Palin read, was Tina Fey, the Saturday Night Live comedienne and impersonator.
It was Fey who seared into the popular imagination the Palin phrase: “I can see Russia from my house!” Mrs Palin had never said any such thing but it encapsulated the feeling that she was frivolous and lacked any foreign policy credentials.
Tell us rooster...what exactly WAS Palin's foreign policy credentials? She didn't even have a passport!!!!
So she didn't exactly say she could see Russia from her house but she did say this....
rooster -- now that's some hard-azz spin, lol -- and true to her usual highly relative grasp of reality, "The Undefeated" is just the perfect title for her new "ooh, it's all about ME!" fantasy flick -- as she yet again makes every buck she can sating the ever-ardent adulatory cravings of her mass-wanker base
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Release of Sarah Palin emails angers US conservatives
American conservatives have leapt to the defence of Sarah Palin after the release of 24,000 emails from her time as Alaska governor. Photograph: Gary Hershorn/Reuters
Rightwingers accuse media of vendetta against possible Republican nominee and ask why Obama was not targeted too
Ewen MacAskill in Juneau guardian.co.uk, Saturday 11 June 2011 12.19 BST
The release of the Sarah Palin emails has provoked a backlash from grassroots conservatives accusing major US newspapers and the Guardian of engaging in a vendetta against the former Alaska governor and possible presidential candidate.
Conservatives bombarded newspapers, rightwing websites and other media outlets with complaints that Palin had been singled out for special treatment and that other politicians were not being subjected to the same level of scrutiny, in particular Barack Obama.
Greta Van Susteren, a Fox News journalist and one of the few members of the media trusted by Palin, labelled the treatment of Palin "a media colonoscopy" and suggested some news organisations were on "a mission to destroy".
That view was shared by her blog readers, one of whom wrote: "What a sad time in America when a good, decent God-loving, America-loving and family-loving person is under attack by so called journalists."
The emails have produced fresh insights into Palin's character and leadership while governor of Alaska but no revelations so far that would damage a bid for the Republican nomination for the presidential race.
Palin said last week she was still considering whether to seek the Republican nomination for the 2012 White House race.
The media's intensive coverage of the emails appears to have hardened the view of her supporters that she is being victimised.
One reader writing to the Washington Post said the coverage had gone too far. "Sarah Palin simply never did anything to deserve this! Shame on the media that are behind this!" she wrote.
A conservative blog, Gateway Pundit, attracted a large amount on traffic on the issue, mainly complaining that Obama was not receiving the same treatment from the media.
"Wow, if only the media had been this diligent in vetting Obama before the 2008 election," one reader wrote.
Another said: "Just when you thought the NYT and WaPo couldn't prove themselves to be any more than partisan leftist rags, they surprise you again."
Mike Oreskes, the senior managing editor for national news at Associated Press, one of the organisations that put in the original freedom of information request for the emails, justified the move by saying Palin was a public figure who maintained a high profile and may run for president.
"We are pressing to obtain the records of other presidential contenders in the months ahead", he said.
Sarah Palin emails: a response to criticism of our coverage
The release of a cache of Sarah Palin's emails has been covered in great depth by the Guardian and other news organisations. Photograph: Jeff Fusco/Getty Images
Ian Katz, deputy editor of the Guardian, responds to concerns and criticism regarding coverage of the Palin emails
Ian Katz guardian.co.uk, Saturday 11 June 2011 20.21 BST
As you may have seen in comments beneath some of our articles, there's been a fair bit of criticism of the Guardian (and other news organisations) for covering the Palin emails so assiduously. Here's a quick response to a couple of them:
• The Guardian is hypocritical to complain about the hacking of public figures' voicemails by tabloids and then comb through Palin's emails
The key difference is that it is illegal to hack into people's phones while the Palin emails have been released by the state of Alaska following a two-and-a-half year freedom of information process. Whatever the Guardian and other news organisations do with them, they are now public documents. Palin entered office knowing the rules about public access to her communications while in government and has had ample opportunity to argue that any personal or otherwise privileged emails should be removed or redacted – that's why 2,353 pages have been withheld and many more redacted as David Corn explained here. There is a world of difference between combing publicly available material for potentially significant stories about a highly controversial political figure who could still be a US presidential candidate, and hacking into the voicemail of a celebrity to dig up dirt on their sex life.
• The Guardian is being lazy and failing to apply usual journalistic standards by asking its readers to help comb the mails
It would be hard to suggest that the Guardian stinted on its conventional reporting of the mails. Two of our US correspondents, Ewen MacAskill and Ed Pilkington, travelled to Juneau to work their way through the email cache while Richard Adams and later Ben Quinn liveblogged what they and other reporters were finding. But just as with other large troves of data like UK MPs' expenses and the US diplomatic cables, we knew thousands of readers – some with detailed knowledge of the Alaskan political scene – would spot interesting information and potential stories that we would miss. Our crowdsourcing effort is not remotely a replacement for traditional reporting but a tool that we and several other news organisations use to try to do our job better. Of course there are some readers who complain that we sent any reporters to Juneau at all but you can't please everyone ...
• Sarah Palin is a has-been and we shouldn't be paying her this much attention
Well, maybe. But she's still one of the most high profile figures in US politics and if her presidential hopes have evaporated, her recent bus tour of historic sites suggested she hasn't altogether accepted that. She is, at the least, a potential kingmaker in the coming presidential campaign and a spokesperson for a sizeable portion of conservative America and so worthy of proper public scrutiny.
My girl Sarah beats the democrats and the lame stream media again! Go Sarah...
Sarah Palin Reportedly Quits Bus Tour Halfway Through
Former half-term Gov. Sarah Palin has reportedly packed in her bus tour...halfway through.
Real Clear Politics is reporting that Palin and her family have returned to Alaska from their "One Nation" bus tour, despite tentatively scheduled stops in Iowa and South Carolina.
From Scott Conroy at RCP:
Though Palin and her staff never announced a timeline for the remaining legs of her trip, aides had drafted preliminary itineraries that would have taken her through the Midwest and Southeast at some point this month. But those travel blueprints are now in limbo, RCP has learned, as Palin and her family have reverted to the friendly confines of summertime Alaska, where the skies are currently alight for over 19 hours a day and the Bristol Bay salmon fishing season is nearing its peak.
Palin's intent to visit Iowa and South Carolina, as well as one stop in New Hampshire, caused some speculation that she was starting to get serious about a run for president in 2012.
The bus tour was launched over Memorial Day weekend, and was particularly scrutinized after one event in Boston where Palin badly flubbed the story behind Paul Revere's ride.
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