As readers of this blog know, I’m a big fan of Matt Taibbi. No one, save for Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert, comes close to his ability to hone in on the very essence of a political issue and then lacerate the guilty parties with the flick knife of his prose. What an amazing writer. It’s all A game with Taibbi, but he’s especially on point when he writes about Sarah Palin. Sample some of the goods from his most recent column at True/Slant:

Sarah Palin is the Empress-Queen of the screaming-for-screaming?

Taibbi is, indeed, blessed with the attributes with which you have described him, but I disagree with this statement:

“She has staked out, as her own personal political turf, the entire landscape of incoherent white American resentment. In this area she leaves even Rush Limbaugh in the dust.”

I don’t believe for one second that Palin can be given credit for this. Palin is a pawn… literally a game piece… that people in charge of the Conservative movement are strategically using to accomplish… something… not sure what… but something they see as benefitting Conservatives in the long run.

She is a passive, not active, participant in this strategy (unbeknownst to her).

i think some of the comments are unfair to both innertubes and celery stalks!