Palin reviews

The WaPo headlines and frontpages with "Palin Links Iraq to Sept. 11 In Talk to Troops in Alaska," although it's my sense that Palin's statement was more hyperbole than analysis. (With no foreign policy resume, every inexact word will resonate.)

The Palin interview bits on foreign policy (see below,) are being widely panned. Frankly, I don't think most Americans know enough foreign policy detail to judge just what a disaster that interview was, but the media seems to have caught it, and that will have an effect on the coverage.

My favorite line so far comes from the NYTimes TV columnist.

Mr. Gibson, who sat back in his chair, impatiently wriggling his foot, had the skeptical, annoyed tone of a university president who agrees to interview the daughter of a trustee but doesn’t believe she merits admission.

That's what I saw.