Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's visit to Haiti was over faster than you could say cholera. Palin spent less than 48 hours in the earthquake-ravaged nation that's currently facing a growing cholera epidemic that has already killed more than 2,000 people, and mounting political unrest due to a contested election. Palin was accompanied by her reality-TV-star daughter, Bristol, and her husband, Todd. And she mostly remained off-limits to media organizations except for Fox News, the network on which she serves as a news analyst.
I can already hear the programmed gears in her head grinding through the talking points she doesn't require writing in her hands: "If only the people of Haiti weren't burdened with such high taxes they could become a wealthy nation... I'm pretty certain the culprit to this cholera outbreak begins and ends with Socialized Medicine... Not that Big Government ought to be telling anyone what to do, but the people of Haiti could sure use a good abstinence-only campaign... Drill baby drill.... OOPS! I probably shouldn't have mixed getting drilled so soon after promoting abstinence - I better write that on a hand somewhere..."
Anyway this sounds like FOX NEWS' idea of making some fawning campaign commercial designed to instill Palin with humanitarian complexity and gravitas in their standard, cellophane-thin guise of reporting.
Thanks for the laugh but the joke has worn thin.
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