Freiburger: Yes, Frances, Governor Palin Knows Governing

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Frances Martel of Mediaite was floored that former Governor Sarah Palin "does know a thing or two about borders and the Tenth Amendment":

She backed up her eloquent points with experience and facts and appeared formidable in her discussion.

But what inspired Calvin Freiberger to respond at the NewsReal Blog was Martel's condescending lede and backhand compliment:

There is only one aspect of politics, empirically, that Sarah Palin knows about: being the CEO of a state. So it shouldn’t be surprising to listen to her sound knowledgeable explaining Jan Brewer’s decision to pass a controversial immigration law in Arizona on last night’s Hannity, but compared to the folksy buzzword soup she usually cooks up, this was conservative policy at its finest.

Freiberger suggests that Martel's ignorance is borne of the latter's reliance on the lamestream media as the font of all information about former Gov. Palin:

I don’t know where Frances Martel has been all this time, but Palin has never been a stranger to substantive policy analysis. [...]

So it turns out Sarah Palin is a politician who knows stuff about politics. Who would have guessed? I mean, other than people who aren’t still content to let the mainstream press spoon-feed them their daily dose of “truth.”

But lazy research has always been a problem for many reporters who cover the media industry, not to mention the Democrat-Media Complex itself. Martel, at least, deserves some credit for recognizing that Sarah Palin knows more than most media creatures will admit she does, even if the compliment was delivered with the back of the hand.

- JP