Back in November, Sarah Palin unloaded on the blogosphere in one of her first post-election interviews.

And, she’s back at it again:

(CNN) — Sarah Palin fired a new salvo in her war on the media, unloading in a new interview on her home state paper and “bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie.”

The Alaska governor, who has granted a steady stream of interviews since Election Day, also told an Esquire reporter that she wishes she had told McCain campaign advisors she’d be “callin’ some of the shots.”

“Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me….I’ll tell you, yesterday the Anchorage Daily News, they called again to ask — double-, triple-, quadruple-check — who is Trig’s real mom,” she said, in an interview to be published in the magazine’s March issue.

“And I said, Come on, are you kidding me? We’re gonna answer this? Do you not believe me or my doctor? And they said, No, it’s been quite cryptic the way that my son’s birth has been discussed. And I thought, Okay, more indication of continued problems in the world of journalism.”

The only problem is that Palin completely mischaracterizes what it was that the Anchorage Daily News was doing:

In an Anchorage Daily News column published last week, the paper’s editor said the only questions reporters there had asked about Trig’s birth came when the paper undertook a project to debunk conspiracy theories surrounding the event, but that they had abandoned the effort because of a lack of cooperation from the Palin family.

“I don’t believe we have ever published in the newspaper a story, a letter, a column or anything alleging a coverup surrounding your maternity,” wrote the editor in an e-mail sent to Palin and reprinted on the paper’s blog. “In fact, my integrity and the integrity of the newspaper have been repeatedly attacked in national forums for our complicity in the ‘coverup.’

Later, he added: “…So I don’t understand the behavior of the governor’s press office. Did the governor not share my email with the press staff? Did the press staff deliberately ignore what I said in order to have a longer list of press ‘outrages’? Or are they just sloppy with details? I don’t know.”

So, Palin’s effort to play the victim here fails miserably, but then I really think she doesn’t get it when I read stuff like this:

Even hard news sources, credible news sources — the comment about, you can see Russia from Alaska. You can! You can see Russia from Alaska. Something like that — a factual statement that was taken out of context and mocked — what you have to do is let that go.”

What Palin fails to address, of course, is the fact that Alaska’s proximity to Russia, which is a manifest fact, was cited by Palin and by several McCain campaign surrogates (see here, here, and here) as evidence of her foreign policy experience. As we learned soon after this idiotic idea was put forward, though, Palin has absolutely no role in homeland defense despite being Governor of Alaska because, you know, Alaska is a state and national defense is a Federal responsibility.

But back to the blogging thing. Michael Stallings at The Moderate Voice thinks that it’s evidence of Palin’s disdain for anyone who dares to criticize her:

Really, though, she’s not referring to anyone. She’s just attacking bloggers generally. Just like she thinks we all live in our parents’ basements, so does she think that we’re all bored and pathetic (and anonymous?), a bunch of liars. It’s just her way of lashing out at her critics, at anyone who dares question her. (I’m sure she’s fine with the many bloggers on the right who helped make her what she became, who drooled all over her and who long for her to lead them to the promised land of conservative bliss — God, guns, and a whole lotta drilling.) She avoided — or was kept away from — the media during the campaign, but now she’s a media manipulator herself, using various friendly media outlets on the right, as well as more mainstream outlets, to spew her spin and promote her cause, namely, herself.

As long as the media still bother to put a camera and microphone in front of her, enabling her and keeping her in the public eye long past her expiry date, we’ll have to put up with this sort of nonsense. And while we’re talking about lying, it’s Palin herself who’s full of dishonesty, as when she attacks the Anchorage Daily News for probing (and questioning) her maternity, an attack without basis in reality. But, then, so much of what Palin says and does is without basis in reality, and, in her eternal quest for victimhood (they’re all against me!), she’s apparently willing to make any claim, however fraudulent.

And that’s going to continue as long as she continues to find an audience willing to listen. Sadly, I think Sarah Palin is here to stay.

Originally posted at Below The Beltway