Sarah Palin's Facebook is no place for anything as anti-Palin as facts or logic.

I am sure that almost all of you have read about the tussle between Sarah Palin and the Wall Street Journal.

If not let me give you a brief update.

In a speech that she delivered Monday Sister Sarah said that food prices "have risen significantly over the past year or so."

Sudeep Reddy of the Wall Street Journal then felt the need to gently correct the Grizzled Mama:

Unlike most U.S. economists and politicians, however, Palin tries to draw the concerns about quantitative easing to inflation today and falls short. She says, “everyone who ever goes out shopping for groceries knows that prices have risen significantly over the past year or so. Pump priming would push them even higher.”

Grocery prices haven’t risen all that significantly, in fact. The consumer price index’s measure of food and beverages for the first nine months of this year showed average annual inflation of less than 0.6%, the slowest pace on record (since the Labor Department started keeping this measure in 1968). Even if you pick a single snapshot — say, September’s year-over-year increase in prices — that was just 1.4%, far better than the 6% annual increase for food prices recorded in September 2008.

Now of course WE all know what happens when somebody DARES to challenge Sarah Palin's (Or in this case, Sarah Palin's ghostwriter's) version of reality. 

You get mauled! 

On Facebook even!

A "Facebook mauling" if you will!

Check out this snarky title:

Do Wall Street Journal Reporters Read the Wall Street Journal?

Mr. Reddy takes aim at this. He writes: “Grocery prices haven’t risen all that significantly, in fact.” Really? That’s odd, because just last Thursday, November 4, I read an article in Mr. Reddy’s own Wall Street Journal titled “Food Sellers Grit Teeth, Raise Prices: Packagers and Supermarkets Pressured to Pass Along Rising Costs, Even as Consumers Pinch Pennies.”

The article noted that “an inflationary tide is beginning to ripple through America's supermarkets and restaurants…Prices of staples including milk, beef, coffee, cocoa and sugar have risen sharply in recent months.”

Now I realize I’m just a former governor and current housewife from Alaska, but even humble folks like me can read the newspaper. I’m surprised a prestigious reporter for the Wall Street Journal doesn’t.

- Sarah Palin

Yeah Mr. "I got my journalism degree after attending only ONE University!"  Do YOU even READ the paper YOU work at?  Even "just a former Governor and current housewife" is WAY smarter than you!

(You can almost picture all of the little elves who work behind the scenes putting our Palin's Facebook posts high fiving each other for coming up with that one.  "We shur dun showed him din't we Ms. Mansewer?")

Except, like almost ALL Palin Facebook smack downs, THIS one was a little light on something that real journalists call "facts."

So Mr. Reddy fired up his laptop and once again tried to use those pesky facts to correct Caribou Barbie and the dipshits working for her.

The Nov. 4 Wall Street Journal article noted, in its first sentence, “the tamest year of food pricing in nearly two decades.” It does indeed report that supermarkets and restaurants are facing cost pressures that could push their retail prices higher — but it hasn’t happened yet on a large scale. Critics of the Fed’s quantitative easing policy are focused primarily on concerns about potential future inflation.

And just what was Palin's Facebook response to this correction? (You can find that  here.)

Now this whole thing has been well reported, and to be honest I was not going to weigh in on this particularly painful Palin peccadillo.  That was until I read this interesting report of how the Slate's John Dickerson tried to go directly to the source and correct the misinformation:

But readers of Palin's Facebook page may be oblivious to the fact that the Journal article that Palin referenced didn't back up her assertion. Slate's John Dickerson reported that his comments were repeatedly deleted from her page.

"I made this point in a few sentences and posted them on Palin's Facebook page in the space allotted for readers to participate in the conversations she starts," Dickerson wrote. "I wanted to see if any of the other participants would respond, as they sometimes do. They didn't—because within two minutes, my post had been deleted from the steady stream of acclaim from Palin fans congratulating her for tweaking the media and urging her to run for president."

"It's the first time I've been kicked out of a place of worship," he said.

In my opinion that last line does the best job of summing up the kind of support that Sarah Palin attracts better than any other I have ever read.

And as we now know, in "Sarah Palin's Crystal Meth Cathedral", the biggest sin of all is the introduction of facts and logic which refuse to bend to the will of the "Queen Esther of Wasilla."