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How sweet is this?

Without leaving home, Sarah Palin will be able to reach much of her political base, courtesy of a soon-to-be-built television studio in her living room paid for by her newest media patron, Fox News. From her house in Wasilla, Alaska, Ms. Palin also sends missives to 1.3 million Facebook “fans,” writes newspaper columns, Tweets and signs copies of her book for donors.

She reads daily e-mail briefings on domestic and foreign policy from a small group of advisers who remained loyal after her tumultuous vice presidential campaign in 2008. And though she has fashioned an image as an antiestablishment conservative, she also speaks regularly to a bipartisan nobility of Washington insiders who have helped enrich her financially and position her on the national political stage.

Say what you want about Palin – call her shallow, opportunistic, intellectually and truth-challenged, whatever – but no one can say that this woman does not know how to make a dollar.  She’s taken full advantage of the platform given her and is milking it for all she can.  While I am wary to compliment Palin on any level, one cannot deny that she has shown an amazing talent for taking a limited intellect and a pretty face and doing more with them than most could ever dream of accomplishing.

That much I’ll give her…except to note that people who lack an awareness of their own shortcomings are often capable of doing more with less.  If you don’t know you’re a shallow, self-serving, empty-headed ninny, you can do amazing things.

Update:

I just caught a snippet of Palin’s $100,000 tea party speech. This is how she referred to Obama.

“A charismatic guy with a teleprompter.”

Of course she said this as she read the words written for her off a teleprompter as hundreds cheered away at her charismatic personality.

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