You're aware that Obama's New Government Media (formerly The Main Stream Media) contributed the equivalent of tens of millions of dollars in "journalist" salaries, TeeVee air time, and column inches making suicide runs on Palin's reputation over a politically miniscule period of two months?
I've been a media archivist at Free Republic for more than ten years, and I've never seen anything like it. Normally, an operation like STOMPSARAHPALININTOTHEDIRT takes many, many months, to avoid exposing the "journalists" for what they really are. There are a significant number of these jerkoffs twisting slowly in the wind, now. I've nicknamed the Associated Press "The Ossociated Press" due to the sheer number of AP staffers who immolated their journalistic reputations to "get" Palin.
These people mass-market for a living. Small wonder your acquaintances feel the way they do about Palin - they've been had by master ad pitchmen.
"These aren't the drones we're looking for." ;-)
Sarah gas been abused by elite political McCain types ... she will be our gal in 2012