Hooray for New Media? Or something...

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Link from snobahr!

So, it seems the information that Palin didn't know Africa was a continent, despite being widely reported and repeated by McCain campaign folks, was actually a joke from a fake blog.

So... way to go, McCain and Palin campaign? I have no idea how to process this information.

Edit: I suspect my memory of hearing campaign staff talking about the Africa thing is based on my memories of the FOX news report, which was false.

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I read about this in today's Post, but I hadn't heard about the Palin aide saying the Africa gaffe was a misquote.

The fact that so many people (moi aussi) so readily believed it tells you something...

And condolences for having to watch O'Reilly. ;-)

ETA: Having read further comments here and looking back at the Post story, I realize tht it does indeed say that Eisenstadt merely claimed to be the leaker. No one seems to have confirmed or denied the original story.