Sarah Palin

CAN YOU name a Supreme Court case, other than Roe v. Wade, that you disagree with? Maybe, maybe not. Cite John McCain's record on deregulation? Hmmmm. Know enough about the Bush Doctrine to say whether you agree with it? Uhhhh. Well, Sarah Palin has trouble with those questions, too. Then again, you're not running for vice president of the U.S. Would you confuse our economic crisis with health-care reform? I doubt it, but Palin did. And I bet you could name some newspapers and magazines you read (at least this one)

Sarah Palin will make a stop on Independence Mall this Memorial Day weekend as she launches her One Nation bus tour. According to her website, SarahPAC, Palin will be dropping in on spots fraught with patriotic and historic symbolism. Tour details were sketchy Thursday afternoon. "Starting this weekend, Sarah Palin will embark on a One Nation Tour of historical sites that were key to the formation, survival, and growth of the United States of America," a statement on SarahPAC.com reads.

GUESS THE JOKE'S on us. As Sarah Palin's mystery tour rolled into Philadelphia yesterday, dozens of sweaty reporters and photographers - mostly card-carrying members of the "lamestream media" that Palin openly despises - sprang into action. With a news chopper hovering above, they sprinted toward Independence Hall to get a glimpse of the 2008 failed vice-presidential candidate who abandoned her post as Alaska's governor in 2009 and has reinvented herself as a celebrity quasi-politician who may or may not launch a longshot bid for the White House in 2012.

WITH THEIR rhetoric and scare tactics, Sarah Palin and her GOP cronies have helped to perpetuate threats against some Democrats because they voted for the health-care bill. Palin is a disgrace and an embarrassment to all women, and the GOP is a disgrace to our country. Palin claimed she is a pit bull with lipstick. Well, she needs to be muzzled. Please, someone call the Dog Whisperer! She also needs to put her guns away before she shoots herself in the foot or someone else.

If tonight's presidential debate takes place, an Irish bar in Center City will be in the limelight, hosting Gov. Sarah Palin at a pre-debate party. The Irish Pub, 2007 Walnut St., will open its doors at 5 p.m. to receive ticketed guests for the private function. Paul Lindsay, the McCain campaign's spokesman, declined to release any details about tonight's event, or why the Irish Pub had been picked to host the Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee. All Lindsay would say was that Palin, who landed in Philadelphia yesterday, was here to do some preparation for her own debate against Democratic vice presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden Jr. But Mark O'Connor, one of the pub's three owners, said the McCain campaign told pub managers to expect 400 people, a number he said would fit in the tavern's five rooms.

In his article ( "Trippin' " ), William Bender wastes no time doing what liberals reporters do . . . trying to embarrass and discredit Sarah Palin and her followers: "failed vice-presidential candidate," "abandoned her post" and "reinvented herself as a celebrity quasi-politician" at the same time he whines over Palin's description of the "lamestream media. " (The article pretty much sums up how lame you and your colleagues prove to be.) You quote a "pollster" that Palin has "become a celebrity, a kind of rock star with no serious purpose in mind.

The Good Sport Express cruised through Rockefeller Center over the weekend, as Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin turned up on Saturday Night Live to let the Not Ready for Prime Time Players, and a handsome movie star, make some more fun of her. She stood smiling in the hallway with SNL chief Lorne Michaels, as Alec Baldwin pretended to mistake her for his 30 Rock costar Tina Fey, who was onstage mimicking her, dismissing polls that show her...

When authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann published Game Change in 2010, they proved that, despite an unprecedented level of coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign, there was much of the story remaining to be told. At the time, Halperin told me this was because "people aren't going to cooperate at the level we had during the campaign, when too much was at stake. " Instead, he said, "the key was to talk to sources immediately after the nomination fight and immediately when the election was over.

* GAME CHANGE. 9 p.m. tomorrow, HBO. * THE UNDEFEATED. 8 p.m. Sunday, ReelzChannel. Bottom line: The striving-for-balance "Game Change" is probably most interesting when its subject briefly appears to have lost hers, but Julianne Moore's portrayal of Sarah Palin at her charismatic best also offers some genuine goose-bump moments, the kind that might even cross party lines. Too bad those same moments are often overwhelmed by the cheerleading in the relentlessly pro-Palin documentary "The Undefeated.

Sarah Palin today said she would not seek the Republican nomination for president. Here is her statement: Wasilla, Alaska - After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States. As always, my family comes first and obviously Todd and I put great consideration into family life before making this decision. When we serve, we devote ourselves to God, family and country. My decision maintains this order.

* GAME CHANGE. 9 p.m. tomorrow, HBO. * THE UNDEFEATED. 8 p.m. Sunday, ReelzChannel. Bottom line: The striving-for-balance "Game Change" is probably most interesting when its subject briefly appears to have lost hers, but Julianne Moore's portrayal of Sarah Palin at her charismatic best also offers some genuine goose-bump moments, the kind that might even cross party lines. Too bad those same moments are often overwhelmed by the cheerleading in the relentlessly pro-Palin documentary "The Undefeated.

When authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann published Game Change in 2010, they proved that, despite an unprecedented level of coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign, there was much of the story remaining to be told. At the time, Halperin told me this was because "people aren't going to cooperate at the level we had during the campaign, when too much was at stake. " Instead, he said, "the key was to talk to sources immediately after the nomination fight and immediately when the election was over.

Fans of the Philadelphia Orchestra may not have been aware that ads for its classical performances were airing on Rush Limbaugh 's radio show. But no longer. The orchestra joined more than three dozen other advertisers this week responding to the crescendo of criticism following Limbaugh's on-air insults of Georgetown law student and birth-control advocate Sandra Fluke . The orchestra announced by Twitter Tuesday that the musical institution had "taken steps to ensure that our ads no longer run on the Rush Limbaugh show.

TV Review Game Change 9 p.m. Saturday on HBO. In the political docudrama Game Change , Sarah Palin is dealing with the whirlwind of being named John McCain's running mate in 2008 with unearthly assurance. Until, that is, she sees Tina Fey spoofing her on Saturday Night Live . Seeing herself held up as an object of ridicule on national TV plunges the Game Change Palin into a bitter spiral of withdrawal and anger. Thanks a lot, Tina! The real-life Palin, now a commentator for Fox News, has already expressed her ire with this HBO film.

JUNEAU, Alaska - Sarah Palin's final months in office saw her fighting for a signature accomplishment of her tenure - a natural gas pipeline project - and frustrated over ethics complaints that had been filed against her, according to e-mails released Thursday by Alaska officials. In a June 4, 2009, e-mail to aide Katryn Morgan, Palin told her to "push hard to get gasline tweet language today. We MUST give Alaskans their deserved updates on the project. " Just a week later, TransCanada Corp.

Sarah Palin 's admirers are lashing out against HBO's Game Change , a political drama about the 2008 presidential campaign, saying it is a biased and malicious smear of the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate. The film, which stars Julianne Moore as Palin, is an adaptation of the book by journos Mark Halperin and John Heilemann , which already has drawn fire from Palin's camp. Trailers for the film show Palin, who ran for veep on John McCain 's ticket, as a whiner who complains about her advisers and mumbles that she misses her kids.

This handy guide answers the question that I've been asked more than any other this TV season: When is Game of Thrones , HBO's swords-and-treachery epic, coming back? As you'll see (below), it happens to be the same night that The Killing , AMC's murder maze, returns for its second season. And there's more new programming than you can shake a remote at. So, yes, it's going to be a busy spring. Good news indeed for TV viewers. There's star power (Dustin Hoffman, Ashley Judd)

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Michele Bachmann's decision to end her presidential campaign leaves the Minnesota Republican with another big one: whether to seek a fourth term in the U.S. House or direct her newfound political celebrity elsewhere. Bachmann would be heavily favored to keep her seat in the Republican-leaning Sixth District unless it's significantly reshaped by redistricting early this year. But after months in the national spotlight of the presidential race, she could determine she would be more influential in a different role.

A federal judge in Alaska ordered two Eastern Pennsylvania men to stand trial for harassing Sarah Palin's lawyers by phone in August. Shawn Christy, 20, and his father, Craig Christy, 48, both pleaded guilty last month but the plea deals recommended only five years' probation and no fines. U.S. District Judge Timothy Burgess called the plea deals unacceptable and set a trial date of Jan. 3 in federal district court in Alaska. The Christys, of McAdoo, Schuylkill County, are in custody in Anchorage.