Oh dear. I been had. Then again, pretty much everyone else was fooled too. Remember the amusement – the frightening hilarity, you may say – occasioned by Sarah Palin’s apparent African confusion? Country or continent? Well, it turns out that the whole brouhaha was an elaborate ploy, cooked up with some flair and wolfed down by greedy hacks and bloggers everywhere.
It was among the juicier post-election recriminations: Fox News Channel quoted an unnamed McCain campaign figure as saying that Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was a continent.
Who would say such a thing? On Monday the answer popped up on a blog and popped out of the mouth of David Shuster, an MSNBC anchor. “Turns out it was Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, who has come forward today to identify himself as the source of the leaks,” Mr.
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