Journos Caught on Mic Trashing Palin Speech

For as much as Sarah Palin likes to trash the "lamestream media," they trashed her right back during her much-hyped speech Friday night at a California university fundraiser—inadvertently, and on a live mic. Unidentified reporters were caught on a video of the speech lighting into Palin even as she said her final "God Bless America," writes Joan Walsh on Salon. Palin hasn't yet responded, but here are the highlights:

• "I feel like I just got off a rollercoaster,” says one reporter.
• "I don't know how you're gonna make a story out of that,” says another, to which someone else responds, "Well, that's the story.”
• The speech was like the bad old days at a student paper, where "you just try to jam as many quotes in as possible, from as many random things."
• The kicker: "Now I know, the dumbness doesn't come from just soundbites."

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