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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Not to belabor the point, but I'm not sure where you're seeing all this fervor from. Simply having a mention and a giggle is one thing, but we aren't exactly pitching in. In fact, the most I've ever seen is a mention and a giggle, and I haunt the Daily Kos.

Beside that, though, y'know, we are allowed to be amused, here. Watching everyone on the right at once (including the governor herself) pick up a nerf mallet and pretend to be Very Very Serious while whacking Ms. Palin over the head is amusing. If something like that happens to someone who's not by their actions damaging the credibility of your ideals, and you cannot chuckle, something is wrong with you, but chuckling can't and shouldn't be considered picking up a mallet yourself.

Does it help with rebuilding a functioning right so we can have a healthy, meaningful national discourse again? No, it doesn't. But that's why we don't put all our time into this, merely glance over and giggle, then go back to work.