A Memo to the Palin Propaganda Machine

Sarah Palin is vacationing the way most Americans do, by visiting the national monuments of our country that represent the “building blocks” of freedom via motorcycle and charter bus. From the Washington Post:

Sarah Palin and her family sneaked out in Washington on Sunday night for what she called an “incognito” tour of the national monuments, having successfully created a media frenzy and then ditched the press.

1) Your “average” middle American “main street” families do not have the ability to go on a cross country sight seeing vacation in a charter bus.

2) Riding on said tour bus conflicts slightly with a supposedly “incognito” tour of national monuments.

3) “Ms. Van Susteren on Sunday blamed the news media for the chaotic situation, saying that reporters had created the frenzy that surrounds Ms. Palin.”: I didn’t realize Greta Van Susteren, host of Fox News’ On The Record, somehow existed outside the “news media.”

4) The cognitive dissonance it takes to believe that Ms. Palin wants to be “left alone” by the press and public on her all American constitution clad charter bus family vacation which was announced via website is so great it would make Edward Bernays and George Orwell join hands across space and time and weep.

I realize that the Post was trying to be tongue in cheek here, but there’s a large swath of America out there fully prepared and trained to do the mental gymnastics it takes to believe that this woman is somehow “just like the rest of us.” I guess in a world where people believe that Dubya was “just like the rest of us” because of his C average at Yale and penchant for clearing brush, anything’s possible.