It's not always all about the media, is it?

So here's Mark Leibovich taking the media to task for being miffed that Sarah Palin has kept them out of the loop during her non-campaign tour up the East Coast.

But how dare she disregard the media like that?

That was a subtext of so much of the press grumbling that followed Ms. Palin and her family as they zigzagged through a Northeast itinerary of “biker caravanning” (at a veterans’ motorcycle rally), historic sightseeing (Gettysburg, etc.), office politicking (the headquarters of her employer, Fox News) and Donald Trump (his own category). By “winging it,” or at least not telling journalists where she was headed next and leading them on what some called a “wild goose chase,” Ms. Palin once again showed contempt for a class of people she plainly despises.

“I don’t think I owe anything to the mainstream media,” Ms. Palin said in an interview aboard her bus with Greta Van Susteren of Fox News.

But Ms. Palin does owe something to her fans/supporters, doesn't she? What does Palin's secrecy during her trip say about her attitude toward the poor deluded Palin supporters who donned their American flag tee-shirts, grabbed their Don't Tread on Me banners and waited for her in vain for ten hours at the Pennsylvania Monument in Gettysburg? I think Palin's message to her supporters is: It's not about you, it's about me. I don't need to respect you because you are so in love with the image I have cultivated about myself that you will stick with me no matter how much I abuse you.

And I do believe Palin is right about that.

Blog posts I never finished reading

From Atlas Shrugs:

John McCormack at the Weekly Standard has obtained an advance copy of Governor Palin's imminent Facebook Post:...........

Sarah Palin has no idea what "blood libel" means

From the Financial Times:

“Especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence that they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible,” Ms Palin said.

Taken literally, I believe she's saying that liberal pundits and politicians accuse her and like-minded conservatives of murdering children and using their blood in religious rituals, and that this accusation may spark violence against her and her kind. Fortunately or unfortunately (I can't decide which), nothing Sarah Palin says can ever be taken literally. A phrase like "blood libel" means nothing to her, she just thinks it sounds good coming out of her mouth. Her message, like most of her political statements, is just a string of vacuous platitudes that are intended to soothe the soul while numbing the brain. The video is here, if you can stomach it. Note her reminder to us of our struggle after 9/11 to resist the temptation to sacrifice our liberties in order to preserve an illusive security. Um, which side of that struggle was she on?