news.yahoo.com — The former vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor, who champions off-shore drilling, criticized the media for not drawing the link between Obama and big oil and said if this spill had happened under former Republican president George W. Bush the scrutiny would have been far tougher. - Ya no shit.

huffingtonpost.com — A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in Alaska found 48 percent of respondents said they would not vote for their former governor in a 2012 presidential election. Just 41 percent said they would vote for Palin. Eleven percent said they were undecided.

rawstory.com — the new Arizona law offers every opportunity for racial profiling, since it influences who will be chosen by the police for a "lawful stop." As explained at Commonweal Magazine, the "assurance that the 'law does not authorize unlawful stops' is only comforting if you ignore the breadth of the category of 'lawful stops.' It is perfectly lawful for a police officer to simply approach you on the street or in the grocery store or enter a bus you are riding and, for no apparent reason, engage you in conversation. Once he does, anything you say or do that gives him 'reasonable suspicion' that you are an illegal immigrant requires him to force you to show your proverbial 'papers.'”

huffingtonpost.com — Tina Fey hosted "Saturday Night Live" this week and reprised her role as Sarah Palin. Fey, hosting for the second time, dressed in a leather jacket and unveiled Palin's new career path--owning her very own network. It will feature shows such as "Todd!", "Are You Smarter than a Half-Term Governor?" and "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (that's right, SNL firmly landed in Team Coco).

mediamatters.org — Fox is showing again what a joke they are........ Like LL Cool J, Toby Keith is slated to appear on "Real American Stories," a Fox News show hosted by Sarah Palin. Unlike LL Cool J, Keith is still slated to be on the program, but his inclusion was news to him.

thinkprogress.org — Since the House passed health care reform on Sunday, Democratic lawmakers who voted for the bill have received death threats and been victims of vandalism. While some Republicans have condemned these incidents, but on Tuesday, Sarah Palin seemed to fan the flames of discontent by labeling a map of vulnerable lawmakers’ districts with crosshairs on her Facebook page and tweeting, “Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: ‘Don’t Retreat, Instead – RELOAD!’” This morning, NBC’s Ann Curry asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) if he believed his former running mate should use less “incendiary” language. McCain condemned any violence but bristled at the suggestion that her use of such violent imagery was inappropriate in light of the atmosphere of threats against lawmakers. “Those are fine. They’re used all the time,”

huffingtonpost.com — Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care www.huffingtonpost.com Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care -- admitted over the weekend that she u

thinkprogress.org — Ladies and Gentlemen, your laugh for the day..... PALIN: I studied journalism, my college degree there in communications. And now I am back there wanting to build some trust back in our media. I think the mainstream media is quite broken and I think there needs to be the fairness, the balance in there — that’s why I joined Fox. Fair and balanced, yes. You know because, Jay, those years a go that I studied journalism it was all about the who, what, when, where, and why, it was not so much the opinion interjected in hard news stories. … As long as there is not the opinion under the guise of hard news stories — I think there needs to be clear differentiation. Watch it:

palingates.blogspot.com — Friedman: I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense of humor. I thought the line "I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska" was very funny. I think the word is "sarcasm". Of special significance, Friedman herself has Down syndrome.