“Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
Happening on Morning Joe as we write. Mika always giggles after any clips of Palin. (Jonathan Capeheart WP, too). Andrea Mitchell with a dismissive smile, and even Joe chimes in and that’s part of it too - wanting to be ‘in’ and also not wanting to be ridiculed himself with Barnicle sitting there most of the time.
Earlier they run a clip of Palin seriously answering a question from Wolf B, and Mika comes off laughing. Then they run a ‘joke’ clip on Obama’s mother in law, and Mika’s making excuses about how hard it is with the kids, etc. Laughing at the serious and ‘explaining’ the jokes - iow, what’s happened all throughout last year in the campaign.
It's also sad to see how many FReepers obligingly fell into their trap by forming a circular firing squad.