Below The Beltway

Sarah Palin’s media rehabilitation tour may be taking a detour to Wisteria Lane:
IS Alaska’s Gov. Sarah Palin headed to “Desperate Housewives”? Series creator Marc Cherry is “very hot to trot to have her appear on the season-five finale,” Hollywood p.r. man Hal Lifson, who’s not involved with the show, told us. “Marc is highly enamored [...]

Well, it took 76 days but Sarah Palin finally held a press conference:
MIAMI — Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska did something here on Thursday that she did not do in her entire campaign as the Republican Party’s vice presidential nominee: she stood behind a lectern and held a news conference. She was asked what had [...]

A new Gallup Poll makes clear that Sarah Palin’s appeal is pretty much limited to Republicans:
PRINCETON, NJ — Just 45% of Americans would like to see Sarah Palin become a major national political figure for many years to come, while a slight majority of 52% say they would not. These sentiments are sharply divided along [...]

Yesterday, it was twin appearances on CNN.
First with Wolf Blitzer in The Situation Room:

And, second, with Larry King:
Part I:

Part II:

Sarah Palin continued her media offensive last night with Part Two of her interview with Greta van Susteren.
Here’s Part I:

Remainder below the fold

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Part II:

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Part V:

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Somehow, this doesn’t strike me as a good idea:
In Sarah Palin’s interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren Monday evening, she referred to bloggers as “kids in pajamas sitting in the basement of their parents’ homes” spewing out mean and inaccurate things about her. Well, I am no kid, I am definitely not wearing pajames [...]

More from the morning version of the Sarah Palin media offensive:

Did anyone notice the part where she answered the part about her embarrassing performance in the Katie Couric interviews by giving us yet another embarrassing media performance ?

The Sarah Palin media offensive continues.
Last night it was Greta van Susterin.
This morning, it was an interview with Matt Lauer on The Today Show:

H/T: Donklephant

If Sarah Palin is going to rehabilitate her image, she’s got a lot of work cut out for her:
In the national Election Day exit poll, fully 60% of voters said they did not consider her qualified to serve as president if necessary, while only 38% thought she would be ready to step in. Those figures [...]

You may as well just call it step one in the Sarah Palin rehabilitation strategy:
After a whirlwind campaign alongside Sen. John McCain, Sarah Palin is defending herself against criticism stemming from the tens of thousands of dollars spent on her wardrobe as well as several reported foreign affairs missteps.
“When I arrived at the convention, there [...]