Man bites dog. Barracuda plays the fishermen.

I must weigh in on the Palin turkey pardon controversy.

I promise that when I’m done here, I won’t mention politics again until I have cleansed your mind-palettes with something pure and noble, like fishing.

By now everyone has seen the video of the Wasilla press conference. Here it is again if you haven’t seen it.

I’m sure that the KTUU video crew was fist-pumpin’ and high-fivin’ all the way back to the city, proud of having caught a Kodak moment of our Gov screwing up another interview.

But I’m not so sure.

Everybody talks about how clueless Sarah was about what was going on behind her. But the crew asked her if she wanted to reposition for another background and she said “no worries.” She looked back at the executioner at least once during the interview, and her comment that “Certainly we’ll probably invite criticism for even doing this too.” was just a little too prescient.

I don’t believe the Palin truth squaddies when they say the Gov was set up. I don’t believe Sarah was unaware of the slaughter. I think she played the news crew like they were chumps and she managed to keep her name in the national news for another day.

I expect we’ll be seeing more incidents like this whenever Sarah starts to drift off the radar screen.

WJ