Yes, and this is further underscored by the quotes from the police chief, which certainly do make it seem that Palin is well-known and well-liked in the area.
Bonner County went for McCain-Palin by 17 points.
(Which, to be sure, is substantially less than the 25% by which the ticket carried Idaho as a whole, but still, it's hardly what I'd call a Democrat stronghold.)
"Don’t get me wrong though — I agree with you regarding the reporter’s bias completely."
Well, let's not jump to conclusions. The article certainly appears favorable to the protesters, and I asked the question of whether the reporter has an axe to grind, bue the fact is that I don't know this reporter at all, I don't know his history, I don't know anything about him other than that he's written this one article. I'm unwilling to condemn him on that basis.
But I completely agree with you on the joys of watching bias backfire. It's one of the pleasures of being a Palin-watcher... to see the legacy media so rabidly focused on destroying her that they don't realize they're having the opposite effect. (All Palin fans should check out what she did to William Shatner on Conan O'Brien. It's epic, an instant classic.)
It was a gag, and Shatner was certainly in on it.Which doesn't change the fact that Sarah was dynamite on camera, cooly reciting whole paragraphs of Shatner's book from memory. She was in her element.