An obedient 'maverick'.

Besides detailing Palin's problem with telling the truth, Bob Somerby nails the media's inane habit of sticking to a script McCain long ago burned at the Alter of Presidential Ascendancy:

By the way, how comically wed is this gang to its scripts? Here was Andrea Mitchell on Meet the Press, offering a bit of 'found comedy' as she explained the selection of Palin. She knew what it meant too:

MITCHELL (8/31/08): The interesting thing is that John McCain has, as Mike [Murphy] has said, has returned to the original John McCain, the maverick. We are told that he wanted to pick Joe Lieberman. They tested it. He wanted to throw that long ball, and having tried that and having been shot down by the conservative base, he still wanted to fight Washington to choose someone who took on Ted Stevens and to take on the public corruption issue and to say "Washington is broken."

Did you follow that? McCain really wanted to pick Joe Lieberman -— but when they 'tested it', his idea got 'shot down by the conservative base.' So he didn’t go with his actual choice -— thus proving himself a maverick!

Whatever one thinks of Palin’s selection, that’s the work of a deeply clownish elite. It helps explain why this nation simply can’t continue to prosper.

Even Melbourne's The Age describes Palin as a hastily forced VP selection in this front page story. And the RNC-scripted image of Palin being a rootin'-tootin', corruption-fightin' Ms Maverick is starting to curdle:

If by 'mortal enemies' you mean she ran Ted Stevens' 527 until 2005, and as Mayor of Wasillia contributed to 'Pork-Barrel disease' by hiring a firm connected to both 'carriers' to secure nearly 30 million dollars in earmarks for a town with a population of 6700. (Even with the millions in federal taxpayer money, Palin managed to rack up 20 million bucks in long term debt.) Sure, Palin became a critic of both Stevens and Young after they became posterboys for corruption, but that's kind of like John McCain criticizing George Bush after voting with him 95 percent of the time.