Palin Approval by Public Up

Sarah in the news--she'll be on Glen Beck's new show on Monday. Her interview with Breitbart's new Big Hollywood site was a big success. As her interviewer John Ziegler notes, the reaction of the MSM proves his point. And the public seems to agree, as her numbers bounce back. RedState:

A majority of those polled agree with Gov. Palin’s criticism of her treatment at the hands of the media during and after the 2008 campaign. When asked the question “Do you think Sarah Palin has been treated fairly or unfairly by the press?”, 58 percent said she was treated unfairly. Only 35 percent responded that she had received fair treatment. Among Republicans the margin was 85-12, among independents 58-36. Even 41 percent of Democrats agreed that press treatment of Gov. Palin had been unfair. These results appear to contradict the claims made by some columnists that the governor’s recent criticism of the media for its treatment of her and her family was “not credible” and that she “overplayed her hand“.

Iconoclastic feminist Camille Paglia on Palin (and Couric), in case you missed it:

As I have repeatedly said in this column, I have never had the slightest problem in understanding Sarah Palin's meaning at any time. On the contrary, I have positively enjoyed her fresh, natural, rapid delivery with its syncopated stops and slides -- a fabulous example of which was the way (in her recent interview with John Ziegler) that she used a soft, swooping satiric undertone to zing Katie Couric's dippy narcissism and to assert her own outrage as a "mama grizzly" at libels against her family.

Ideology-driven attacks on Palin became clotted liberal clichés within 24 hours of her introduction as John McCain's running mate. What a bunch of tittering lemmings the urban elite have become in this country. From Couric's vicious manipulations of video clips to Cavett's bourgeois platitudes, the preemptive strike on Palin as a potential presidential candidate has grossly misfired. Whatever legitimate objections may be raised to Palin on political grounds (explored, for example, by David Talbot in Salon) have been lost in the amoral overkill that has defamed a self-made woman of concrete achievement in the public realm.

And let me take this opportunity to say that of all the innumerable print and broadcast journalists who have interviewed me in the U.S. and abroad since I arrived on the scene nearly 20 years ago, Katie Couric was definitively the stupidest. As a guest on NBC's "Today" show during my 1992 book tour, I was astounded by Couric's small, humorless, agenda-ridden mind, still registered in that pinched, tinny monotone that makes me rush across the room to change stations whenever her banal mini-editorials blare out at 5 p.m. on the CBS radio network. And of course I would never spoil my dinner by tuning into Couric's TV evening news show. That sallow, wizened, drum-tight, cosmetic mummification look is not an appetite enhancer outside of Manhattan or L.A. There's many a moose in Alaska with greater charm and pizazz.

I also see Governor Palin and her Alaska team are neck and neck with Indiana in the state-to state fitness competition. The refreshing Sarah Palin will be back.

P.S. I really like her style--pearls and a parka.