Once again Sarah Palin benefits from the soft bigotry of low expectations.

Look how proud she is of herself.

This is right after Palin delivered a speech that where she did not start to babble incoherently, or confuse dates and addresses, or become overly defensive and combative.

In other words it was not filled with the kinds of gaffes that we have all come to expect from a Palin speech.

And that has managed to impress a handful of reporters.  Such as Sam Levine from the Huffington Post:

Her latest remarks were certainly clearer than a confusing speech she gave last month at the Iowa Freedom Summit, which was criticized by conservatives and cheekily applauded by Democrats. The focus of her Tuesday speech was also a contrast to her previous two CPAC speeches in which she focused more on lobbing zingers at President Barack Obama.

Yes the speech was clearer, and there were fewer mistakes, while also offering only a crouton or two of word salad, so I guess that makes it a good speech?

Here was how the Daily Beast's Olivia Nuzzi reported on the speech:

A typical Palin speech usually involves props: Dr. Seuss books or Big Gulp sodas. This year, she has none. 

A typical Palin speech is usually an incoherent string of Palinisms haphazardly strung together in her folksy twang. This year, she is subdued and barely has any accent at all. 

What the hell is going on? Have the last six years of Palin’s public life just been performance art? Has she purposefully been lowering the bar for her public appearances so that she could come out and impress just ahead of Republican primary season? 

So the bar for a successful speech by Sarah Palin is simply coherence.  Man I certainly wish this lady had been my professor in college, I would have aced every test.

And look how easily Nuzzi is sucked in.

All it takes is one speech where Palin does not drool all over herself for her to suspect that all of her other incomprehensible speeches were some kind of set up.

Seriously? Has she not heard Palin struggling to answer simple, unscripted questions?

And how does she NOT realize that this entire outing was carefully scripted so as to repair the damage that she caused with her LAST speech in Iowa?

Of course not all journalists were fooled. This from Margaret Talev at Bloomberg news:

Sarah Palin rallied conservative Republicans on Thursday with a charged critique of President Barack Obama's approach to fighting Islamic radicalism, suggesting he is betraying U.S. Christians and ignoring the lessons of the Nazis. 

Yes, she actually DID attack President Obama several times, and invoked Nazis to do so.

No Sarah Palin has not changed, improved, or been tamed. She is now, and always will be the same ignorant, vindictive, grifting lunatic she has always been.

And just because she is occasionally caught without flecks of foam gathering around her herpes infested maw is no reason to think otherwise.

Update: Here's another oh so flattering picture.