Why isn't this storyline being pushed harder by the mainstream media? Maybe I haven't been paying as close attention as I should but this story is so important that even the whacko Ted Kaczynski-types living out in the woods should hear about it.

This should clearly be much more than a one-day news cycle story. This is much bigger than the biggest of gaffes because this wasn't an inadvertent mistake on her part. This was a willful decision to outright lie by the person who wants to have one of the most powerful, and potentially the most powerful, position in the world. And she expects us to be okay with her lying? We're just supposed to accept it because she colors here lies with some colloquialisms? Wake up, media!

Since when has it become seemingly acceptable for a Vice Presidential Candidate to demonstrate a complete separation from reality? IMHO, this story should be the lead story on every newscast until Sarah Palin explains how she can claim the report found "no unlawful or unethical activity on my part" when the report says "Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) provides."

I am stunned, absolutely stunned that any politician would have the audacity to make such a patently false claim. She is denying an undeniable fact.

As many, including the Washington Post's Fact Checker which gave Palin the maximum Four Pinnochios (and has there ever been a better case for Five Pinnochios?), have noted this is not a question about the fairness of the report. This is a factual issue about what the report found. And Palin is in absolute 100% denial of reality. She doesn't even try to spin the facts in her favor, she just denies they even exist.

My mom worked at a mental hospital when I was growing up and I spent a lot of time around her patients. There were quite a few who were way out of touch with reality (I met everyone from Queen Elizabeth to Eleanor Roosevelt to Michael Jackson) but I think even most of them could read the first finding of the Branchflower Report and correctly conclude that Sarah Palin, as Governor of Alaska, violated the state ethics law, which clearly means her activities were both unlawful and unethical.