The ADN weighs in on the impact that the mythology of "The Undefeated" will have VS the reality of the state released Palin e-mails.

Courtesy of Paul Jenkins of the ADN:

The emails are going to be -- if released in readable form after passing through lawyers' hands and being scrubbed by the governor's office -- delicious. There likely will be little good news in them for her. Having read only snippets of emails in Palin staffer Frank Bailey's book, "Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin," or "Hey, I Got Emails Nobody Else Can Get and I Can Make Some Dough," the venom, bullying, intimidation, absolute paranoia and craziness of the Palin administration spins off the pages.

One can only imagine what nastiness the state's boxcar-loads of emails will show. Her penchant for payback, retribution and vilification aimed at the news media, government officials, talk shows, even regular folks and business people will cause a stir. Nobody will be immune. That is, of course, if any of the emails make sense after the redacting process.

Compare all that to Conroy's depiction of the film: "Bannon dramatizes the theme of Palin's persecution at the hands of her enemies in the media and both political parties, a notion the former governor has long embraced. Images of lions killing a zebra and a dead medieval soldier with an arrow sticking in his back dramatize the ethics complaints filed by obscure Alaskan citizens, which Palin has cited as the primary reason for her sudden resignation in July of 2009."

Persecution? Lions killing a zebra? A medieval soldier with an arrow in his back? Really? That is the lovely Sarah P. we know. A paranoid, bitter, unrepentant nut job with followers who really should know better.

The movie, it should be noted, shies away from Troopergate or anything else messy in her abbreviated term. It is to be released in two versions: one, a PG-13 film and the other, unrated, containing obscenities and invective from Palin critics.

The movie likely will cause a huge stir as the media pick it apart. It may affect her political future. It likely will change few minds. Thinking people will see it for what it is.

But the emails -- the emails may prove devastating. No filters. No trick camera shots. No editing. Just Sarah -- the real Sarah.

Not a pretty picture.

I like this article because it really expresses the weariness that Alaskans feel at the subject of Sarah Palin, and her constant attempts to portray her self as some paragon of virtue, and political Joan of Arc.

As Jenkins points out, IF these e-mails are not reduced to some giant black smear by the Parnell administration's Sharpie wielding redaction elves, they will definitely paint a much harsher image of a petty, thin skinned, political neophyte who spent far more time worrying about her image than she did getting things done for the people of Alaska.

And when you add those to the numerous tell all books coming out about Snowdrift Snooki this summer, and into the fall, even Cecil B Demille would have no hope of effectively remaking her image.

Of course it must be mentioned that if the Alaska media had been doing their jobs in the first place, Palin would never have been able to fool so many people for so long. But hey, better late than never!