CBN’s David Brody interviewed Sarah Palin “in the last few months”, and picked up this gem in passing:

I want the mainstream media — and I’ve said this for a couple years now — I want to help them.

I have a journalism degree. That is what I studied. I understand that this cornerstone of our democracy is a free press, is sound journalism. I want to help them build back their reputation.

Small world — we also have a degree in journalism! And our old-school professor would dock us a grade for every fact error, which suggests that Talibunny would have had a difficult time graduating.

Meanwhile, Stinquer RevZafod was checking out his local programming last night, and discovered that the Sarah Palin movie was already being dumped on the Interwebs.

Hold on. That’s a 1969 John Wayne oater. Never mind.

Palin: Journalists can learn from me [The Hill, via ThinkProgress]

[Atlantic]

“Sarah Palin’s political action committee raised over $1.6 million in the first half of 2011, according to a report set to be released Thursday. She now has approximately $1.4 million cash on hand despite having spent almost $1.6 million over the same period, according to Sarah PAC. But the funds raised cannot be used for a potential run for the White House in 2012.” [CNN]

“Though Palin and her staff never announced a timeline for the remaining legs of her trip, aides had drafted preliminary itineraries that would have taken her through the Midwest and Southeast at some point this month. But those travel blueprints are now in limbo, RCP has learned, as Palin and her family have reverted to the friendly confines of summertime Alaska, where the skies are currently alight for over 19 hours a day and the Bristol Bay salmon fishing season is nearing its peak.” [RealClearPolitics]

Bristol Palin’s memoirs are out Friday — she’s 20, why do you ask? — and the dirt is flying:

The most biting words in the book are reserved for Johnston, Palin’s high school boyfriend and the father of her 2-year-old son, Tripp. Palin was drunk on wine coolers when she lost her virginity to Johnston while camping. She writes that she “didn’t know that girly flavored wine coolers were just as likely to get you drunk as the hard stuff.”

Speaking of the hard stuff, you know what knocks you up?

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Sarah Palin cultists are not amused that Mama Grizzly had her snout swatted by the Brits:

A firestorm on the US right has erupted after the Guardian reported that Sarah Palin will be denied a meeting with Lady Thatcher on the grounds that it would be “belittling” for her to meet the darling of the Tea Party movement.

Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio host, devoted the opening section of his radio show to denouncing the “preposterous” Guardian report, as Palin supporters accused Thatcher’s circle of disgracing the former prime minister.

Yes, well, but from what we hear, there’s not much left of the former PM to disgrace. From 2008:

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“Lady Thatcher will not be seeing Sarah Palin. That would be belittling for Margaret. Sarah Palin is nuts.” —An “ally” to Thatcher on Palin’s wish for a visit. [Guardian UK]