If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to see it fall ...

So Sarah Palin made her first major public gaffe since becoming VP candidate.

Speaking before voters in Colorado Springs, the Republican vice presidential nominee claimed that lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had "gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers." The companies, as McClatchy reported, "aren't taxpayer funded but operate as private companies. The takeover may result in a taxpayer bailout during reorganization."

Unfortunately, the press won't pay any attention to this and, hence, no one but the few of us bloggers who pay attention to this crap will know about it.

Meanwhile, the Amurcan Public will go on loving the hockey mom.