1. She tired of being a punching bag falling her semi-disasterous arrival on the national political stage. She had erected a personal narrative of her as a heroic figure that was elected governor of Alaska shortly before the price of oil skyrocketed and she had approval ratings of over 80%. After being named McCain’s VP, everything went downhill and she became a laughing stock for many. She just snapped and decided to resign.

2. Something fishy took place in the construction of her house. When I read the article in the Village Voice back in October 08 the situation didn’t make sense.

Of the two I lean toward No. 1 but No. 2 is something that would take a while to boil to the surface.

Really, I “trashed” no one — not Palin, not her detractors, certainly not the MSM. The worst thing I said about bloggers is that “we need to exercise a bit of caution, prudence and fairness.” Some trashing!

Generally, we used to know “fighting words” when we saw or heard them. These days, it seems that people take anything they disagree with — no, anything they don’t agree with entirely — as fighting words to be immediately riposted.

For all of those people celebrating the downfall of Good People,

HOW’S THAT HOPE AND CHANGE GOING FOR YOU?

What do you plan to do when they come after you?

Fixed!

Please note: the plural of “Palin” is “Palins”, not “Palin’s”.

http://thebunyon.com/politics/101-palin-resigns-one-ups-sanford-in-battle-of-bat-shit-crazy-republican-presidential-hopefuls.html

Talk about satire.

In paragraph 2, you trash the MSM or minor stream media because you think they aren’t trustworthy.

In paragraph 3, you go after blogging and speculation which is often all out discussion is. (even after you yourself do it in the first and third paragraph) and for good measure trash the feds and the MSM one more time for good measure. At this point, you have trashed us for doing what you are doing, trashed the MSM and then blogging for thinking it is up to the MSMs level and then gone full circle to close it out. (My guess is that if anyone came out with a story not totally vetted that you would then again start the circle again.)

You are right, we don’t know all the facts, we do know Palin is an empty skirt. She’s proven it once again.

This scandal story seems to be a perfect exanple of an internet rumor running wild. As far as I can see, it’s based on one blogger resurrecting an old story by a Village Voice reporter (naturally hostile to Palin) and running it alongside the outpouring of blogger stories on the resignation, prompting it to be picked up in a hundred places (like Donklephant).

If we in the blogosphere are to keep harping on how we’re as good or better than the MSM, we need to exercise a bit of caution, prudence and fairness every so often. Maybe Sarah or Todd are about to be indicted — but I doubt it. The feds would by now have leaked something about it to the NYT or somebody else, if it were true. At the very least, the leading MSM publications would be rattling every fed cage for morsels of info — and there is no sign of that.