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I think I’ve now read at least half a dozen mainstream media figures lamenting the absurd level of coverage that the mainstream media is giving to Sarah Palin’s bus tour cum summer vacation cum presidential campaign tryout. Note to the nation’s editors: your own reporters think that chasing her around like a starstruck junior high school kid is nuts. Isn’t it time to pull the plug and let her tour the United States with the privacy she allegedly wants?

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