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Oh, fer cute. The well-groomed, overpaid homunculi at Fox News learned a new word and wanted to apply it to make their newest “contributor” feel right at home. The word for today, boys and girls, was “satire”, and the Wingnut Channel’s morning programming brain trust was knee-deep in it:

CARLSON: I think she did it on purpose. I think she did it on purpose, yeah. Because it’s an exact opposite of reading off the teleprompter with a script written for you with every word in a sentence and here’s she’s just taking crib notes on her hand. It makes her look like she can just talk off the cuff and she just jotted down a few couple notes before she went out to give a big long speech.

DOOCY: I think she did it because she probably does it a lot. I do that all the time. [...]

KILMEADE: But to sit there and look at, and do the interview and look down at her hand, I think that is — like you said before, Gretchen — folksy, absolutely, down-to-earth, I can identify. But if you’re going to write on your hand, why not just say, ’staffer, hand me a card.’ And then it would be okay.

CARLSON: Nah, like I said, I think it was on purpose. But anyway, we we may never know.

Yeah, we’ll never know because nobody in the mainstream press will ever dare challenge Palin with the most basic of questions: “WTF?”

To presume that Snowzilla is something more sophisticated than an erstwhile small-town, pathological grifter who serendipitously hit the mother lode of marks (thanks to William Kristol and American low-info voters thinking with their little heads) is giving her far too much credit. Snap out of it! Does anyone seriously believe that Alaska’s Shame was engaging in subversive performance art at the Ye Olde Shoppe o’ Teabaggery on Saturday?

But alas, this is just another example in a very long line where the (predominantly  male) press gives Palin a free pass while anyone else whose political leanings are slightly to the left of Pol Pot–and who are not as telegenic as the Bumpit Bumpkin–is subject to excruciating scrutiny. This glaring double standard is why it proved so satisfying to witness Mrs. Alan Greenspan give smarmy Chuck Todd a sharp knee to the ‘nads earlier today, after he, too, tried to cut Palin slack for her palm reading.

“Daily Rundown” co-host Chuck Todd attempted to defend Palin, saying, “We’ve all done notes.”

But Mitchell said that Palin’s “cheat sheets” were damaging in that she had described President Obama as a “charismatic guy with a teleprompter.”

“If Mitt Romney had notes on his hand, wouldn’t we take it pretty seriously?” Mitchell asked Todd and co-host Savannah Guthrie.

And then Chuck Todd’s testicles went “weeeee wee wee wee” all the way home.

I often wonder how much longer the Palin Snow Job can last, given the mixed messages she broadcasts.  Of course, her fanatical base will claim that she’s a brilliant strategist each time she pulls a stunt like this. The reality of it is that she’s just flinging a lot of shit at the walls, and like any good con artist, waiting to capitalize on whatever winds up sticking.