The beginning of Paragraph 6 of Newsweak's* new story on Sarah Palin, An Apostle of Alaska:

Palin is not regarded as an introspective or intellectual type—not the sort who likes to mull the deepest nuances of every issue. In that sense, she's the anti-Obama. While Barack Obama of Hawaii, Indonesia, Hawaii, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Cambridge, Mass., Chicago and now Washington has been on a well-chronicled lifelong search for his identity, Sarah Heath Palin seems just fine being a woman of Wasilla.

Down-home, plain-spoken, down to earth, just fine being a Woman of Wasilla.  Can there be a more transparent parroting of McCain's own fluff in introducing his new VP pick to the nutbase?

She's got the grit, integrity, and good sense and fierce devotion to the common good that is exactly what we need in Washington today. She knows where she comes from, and she knows who she works for. She stands up for what's right, and she doesn't let anyone tell her to sit down.

Another good bit of fluff:

When Sarah and Todd were first married, they shot, butchered and cured their own meat. She doesn't have much time to cook now; that's usually Todd's job, though the kids complain about his elk stew.

Priceless.

Admittedly, not all of the article is that bad.

But a lot of it is pretty bad.

For example, mentioning ("see? we reported on it!" but downplaying her associations with the AIP, suggesting it was "long ago and far away", ignoring her big, wet video kiss to the Party at its March 2008 convention.  In case you can't do the math, Newsweak, that was just six months ago.

Well played, Newsweak.

*yes, the spelling is intentional.