Sarah Palin

[smc]

The lastest edition of The Boston Phoenix, our weekly "alternative" newspaper here, has an editorial that begins with something worth sharing in this thread, because it made me laugh out loud.

"If Sarah Palin were to smoke a joint while piloting a flying saucer to Cuba, evidence suggests that more than one third of America would approve."

Now that's a great image (see below for the actual image that accompanies the piece in print). The editorial goes on to explain:

"That's not because Palin is especially popular. She isn't. Last month, 71 percent of Americans surveyed for a CBS News poll said they did not want to see Palin run for president and 41 percent said that they had a negative opinion of her. Only 26 percent viewed her positively.

"Given all of Palin's ink and tube time, that is pretty sketchy. But the fact of the matter is that more Americans favor legalizing marijuana (41 percent) than favor Palin.

"More Americans have a favorable view of Cuba (38 percent) than of Palin.

"And more Americans believe in UFOs (34 percent) than think Palin should sit in the Oval Office."

And to put that in the Palin context:

"Professional politicans and news executives consider legalizing pot and normalizing relations with Cuba to be marginal issues (Nobody has ever accused the political class -- or the corporate monopolies that control mainstream media -- of being forward looking. As for negotiating with beings from outer space, we'll leave that to the tea partiers to sort out.) Yet these marginal issues enjoy an average favorability of 38 percent, making them 12 points more popular than Palin.

"Does that mean Palin should fire up a bone, hop into her spaceship, and hightail it to Havana? One can only dream. Sarah in the sky toking away would at least be newsworthy. Talk about woman bites dog."

The editorial's real thrust -- in case you're interested -- is about "TV's conservative bias" (that's the headline from the Phoenix). I won't go any further than that, because I don't want to spark a secondary discussion. I just thought my forum friends would enjoy this bit of the editorial.