The Mudflats

Sarah Palin’s communications director Bill McAllister announced today that (drumroll please)………

Sarah Palin has a Twitter account.

No, I’m not kidding.  That’s the big breaking news that Eddie Burke promoted on KBYR.

Why does she have this Twitter account?  Because there are so many lies and distortions in the media, that she needs a way to counteract those things quickly.  So, now you can rush over to Twitter.com and sign up to get messages from akgovsarahpalin.

McAllister said that Palin is “concerned by media coverage” like the AP story yesterday that reported she “changed her mind” about the federal stimulus money.   Now, this may seem a little confusing because Palin originally said she didn’t want a third of the stimulus money, and now she’s taking almost all of it.  She was against it before she was for it.  Sounds like she changed her mind….but wait.

According to McAllister, the reason we have all been led to believe she flip flopped is because….”apparently nuance and subtlety are dead.”  (A moment of silence for nuance and subtlety please)

Then McAllister went on to say that she has consistently said from the beginning that she’s concerned about “exploding national debt.”  He forgot the part about how rejected stimulus money wasn’t going back to the national coffers, but rather to other states.

He also said that she was worried about “unsustainable state spending.”  He forgot the part about the fact that nobody could find all those ’strings’ she was supposedly worried about.

After all the whining about that AP article that stated Palin “changed her mind” instead of, perhaps, the more accurate “She used nuance and subtlety to alter the message from one point in time to another,” the big announcement came:

“Today we’ve launched a Twitter service!”

Oh boy!

“We have to be able to correct the record instantaneously,” he went on to explain.

The only thing that made me laugh harder than this ridiculous use of personnel, time and public airwaves to announce a Twitter account was when a woman from Wasilla called in and asked

“Is the governor still receiving per diem to live in her own home?”

She held her ground for a long time, and had Eddie Burke all a-twitter (pardon the pun).  He sputtered and talked in circles and ended up falling back on, “You’re like one of these other crazy women who filed the frivolous ethics complaints.  A bunch of crazy delusional women.  Delusional women. Crazy women!  A bunch of crazy women!  That’s what they are – a bunch of crazy women!”

Way to debate the issues.

And the final thing I heard as they came back from a commercial break, and before I had to run across the room and kill my radio was:

“Breaking news right here on the Eddie Burke Show – The governor is tweeting!”

Yes, it has come to this.  (head meets desk)