At a Sarah Palin book signing on Thursday in Wausau, Wisconsin, reporters who arrived early were put into a back room at the store and prevented from leaving. According to a manager at the store who spoke with The Atlantic Wire, the confinement was at the request of the people organizing Palin’s event.

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Of course, the RW spin varies between “it wasn’t PALIN who did this it was her people” and “She’s absolutely right to lock them up, they only want to make her look bad”. Well, in retrospect perhaps keeping the press from covering a public event where she is the main attraction isn’t the best way to gather good will.

Of course none of this matters in the big picture, since even in the event of a Palin Presidency (slightly less likely than me winning the PowerBall), I will take comfort that at some distant point in time the Sun will expand into a red giant, consume the earth, and that will be probably be worse than her in office again.

RBS