If I were a politician, I would pray for enemies like Sarah Palin has

[fpb]

I already commented on the crazy episode of the e-mails; an episode that, to the disinterested observer or to the candid friend, conveys nothing but desperation and lack of principle. (Or desperation so intense as to destroy principle, and for that matter commonsense.) Now we have had another damp squib, at the end of what was, like the tapes, a

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[shezan]

Brilliant, even if I disagree on your take on Murdoch. May I send people here?

[fpb]

Please do. In fact, don't even bother asking me.

[fellmama]

The university Palin attended is in my hometown; my father used to teach there, I took classes there, and many of my friends graduated from there. I can assure you that her journalism degree is barely worth the paper it's printed on. The U of I is an excellent school for some subjects . . . but "Journalism and Mass Media" is not one of them. (In fact, my boyfriend's sister graduated from the same program--modulo twenty years, of course--and to describe her as intellectually underdeveloped would be the nice way of putting it.)

This is not to say that Palin is stupid, but I don't think your concerns about her journalism degree influencing her decisions need be so serious.

[fpb]

Thank you. That's a minor point, and hardly alters the fact that a person who has been in politics for more than twenty years certainly cannot be naive about the way the Murdoch organization does things.

[fellmama]

Quite true, and I think anyone who's been, well, alive, for the past ten years or so could hardly be unaware of Murdoch's unsavory nature.