Just when you thought all was lost David Weigel rides to Sarah Palin's defense.

So after days where it seems the whole world has turned on Palin (Finally!), David Weigel takes it upon himself to decide that the whole thing is being exaggerated. And that it is Palin herself who is having the last laugh:  

If there is a political fact lab-tested to irritate reporters, it is this: Sarah Palin may be the most famous politician in America with a journalism degree. (A degree that nobody has ever, ever seen.) The University of Idaho graduate, who holds a bachelor's degree in communications with a focus on the life of kings, baits and commands the media like few people with her resume. (Where in the hell is he getting that?) If her power is fading—and five and a half years after she quit the governor's office, it is—she's still able to bait the press into covering her and mocking her, while she has the last chuckle at them. 

Palin's generally disastrous speech at this weekend's Iowa Freedom Summit was a case in point. In the room and after, it was easy to find people who drifted or were offended by Palin's confusing self-obsession. (She spent a very long time ribbing the media for covering her entry into a charity race.) Yet much of the post-game has focused on a line that made perfect sense to Palin. 

"Her address was a 34 1/2-minute roller coaster ride of cliches, non sequiturs and warmed-over grievances," wrote Karen Tumulty in the Washington Post. "One line that stood out: 'GOP leaders, by the way, you know, ‘The Man,’ can only ride ya when your back is bent. So strengthen it. Then The Man can’t ride ya.'" On the Daily Show, Palin's "the man can old ride ya" line was slotted into a parody of Matthew McConaughey's dada car commercials, because it was obviously gibberish.

Weigel then goes onto defend the remark, by revealing that it was "borrowed" from MLK.  (Apparently he is under the impression that none of us realized that. But of course we did.)

Right on cue, almost as if it had been choreographed or something, Bristol Palin's ghostwriter jumped on this article: 

The pundits either don’t know or don’t care that her comment was alluding to this famous quote. 

Why? They just can’t ever pass up a chance to make fun of my mom. 

Notice that no one is actually talking about the content of her speech? It’s easier to stigmatize her than to deal with her actual arguments. 

I’m proud of my mom who’s back is not bent, who stands up straight, and who fights for what she believes.

Oh trust me moron, WE totally heard the "content of her speech."  And there was plenty there to mock.

And as for that quote remember that Palin did not simply plagiarize the words while staying true to their meaning, she took MLK's inspirational language and did this with it.

 That is why she was mocked, and deservedly so.

Weigel goes on in his column trying to bat down each critical article written about Palin and the Iowa speech, somehow missing the fact that since there are so many that require batting that it takes all of the air out of his argument.

In fact there are STILL articles being written about the speech and its impact.

Just today we have one from The Telegraph, and yesterday there was one from The Guardian reporting that Palin's speech actually raised $50,000 for Hillary.

There is also an article in The Dallas Observer that goes a little something like this: 

She is an idiot. She is a moron. She is an uneducated, ill-read and ill-informed person of atrocious taste and horrible conduct whose appalling hillbilly brood gets into drunken brawls in which people call each other fucking cunts in public.

Fairly succinct, don;t you think?

So David Weigel can carry water for Palin until his tiny feminine looking hands are blistered and bloody, but it will be to no avail.

Ding, Dong the Witch is Dead, David Weigel, Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead.

P.S. Before I close this out I should mention that Weigel has been defending Palin for quite a few years now, and in fact when he briefly subbed for Andrew Sullivan made it a point to sabotage his take on babygate with the help of one of my fellow bloggers.

Sullivan returned to put Weigel in his place, but the damage had already been done, and Andrew actually walked away from babygate for quite awhile. To his credit he did return to promote a few of my posts and to talk about Joe's take on the controversy, but it was never with the same passion.

(Weigel also attempted to save face by calling the Mat-Su Hospital and received a non-answer that he took to be proof positive that we were all off our rocker.)

In short David Weigel is a tool. And what's even more pathetic is that he is a tool that even Sarah Palin can use to do her bidding.