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Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert? Of course. Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, and David Letterman? Completely expected. Robert Gibbs? Can you blame him? Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC? No thanks.

Sarah Palin's use of notes scribbled on her hand during her talk to the National Tea Party Convention has launched a veritable Greek comedic chorus of talking heads goofing on her for getting caught. On Palin's end, it's richly deserved. She'd been hitting the president hard for being just some "charismatic guy with a teleprompter," the clear implication of which was that Obama's attempts to rally the nation around issues like education and health care were coming from some speechwriter, not his heart. Then she gets caught palm-peeking like some middle schooler in a geometry final so she won't forget to mention things like "tax cuts" and "lift American spirits" - no-brainer Republican talking points which presumably should be coming from her heart rather than her palm.

Well, I was enjoying the humor as much as anyone until I saw Andrea Mitchell chime in on MSNBC. I'm sure it felt just too good to resist, but Mitchell should have done so anyway. Satirists and comedians are a dime a dozen these days, but respected journalists who play it straight are in increasingly short supply.

Fox News is wasting no time capitalizing on all the buzz about their signing of former GOP Veep candidate Sarah Palin as a regular commentator. She's making her debut tonight with Bill O'Reilly on "The O'Reilly Factor."

The shoot-from-the-hip former GOP veep candidate has landed on the shoot-from-the-hip news network. It's news so expected, it's almost unremarkable.

Fox News confirmed today that it has made room in its big tent for Sarah Palin. According to a story on the New York Times web site, Palin has inked a multi-year deal to appear regularly as a commentator but will not have her own show.

Yet.

Oh yea, and the Herald just endorsed Scott Brown.

The publication of Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue, has the former GOP Vice-Presidential candidate on virtually every media platform. Oprah Winfrey promoted her interview as a “world exclusive.”  ABC News just called it “exclusive.” Newsweek’s cover photo of Palin has been called sexist.  How has the news media portrayed Palin?

Jeff Bercovici, the terrific media reporter for AOL's Daily Finance site, is reporting that the photographer who sold Newsweek the cover photo of Sarah Palin in running garb may have violated the terms of his contract with Runner's World magazine by doing so.

Bercovici reports that the controversial picture, which shows Palin in running shorts and leaning on an American flag draped over a chair, was supposed to have been embargoed from any magazine except Runner's World until August 2010.

The former Republican VP nominee resigned as governor of Alaska resigned last week and while blasting the press. Palin says the mainstream media is detached from ordinary Americans and that a different standard applies to her. Did the press treat  Sarah Palin fairly?

Republican campaign strategist Ed Rollins ripped Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's July 3 resignation speech, saying she'd basically lost control over her own message. Apparently she wants it back, because she's enlisted the help of her lawyers to quash rumors that she resigned ahead of a federal investigation.

Anchorage attorney Thomas V. Van Flein published an open letter the next day warning Alaskan blogger Shannyn Moore and media outlets like the Huffington Post, the New York Times, and MSNBC that Palin plans to file a defamation lawsuit if they report that Palin resigned ahead of a federal investigation.

In a recent posting on her Facebook page, Palin said she's triumphed over the ethics watchdogs who've been nipping at her heels:

Over the past nine months I've been accused of all sorts of frivolous ethics violations - such as holding a fish in a photograph, wearing a jacket with a logo on it, and answering reporters' questions. Every one - all 15 of the ethics complaints have been dismissed. We've won!

But waving a red flag in front of the media bull has always been a risky strategy. Anyone remember Gary Hart?

Sarah Palin was this past year's go-to gal for newspaper columnists afflicted with brain cramps and writer's block. 

The National Association of Newspaper Columnists gave Palin its annual "Sitting Duck" award for "showing it's hard to put your best foot forward when it's in your mouth," the association's web site states.

The award is given annually to "the person to whom columnists have turned in the last twelve months when he or she is desperate for a topic and has to meet a deadline." The runner-up was former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. And his hair.