Once upon a time, not long ago, Fox News' Sarah Palin was on a presidential ticket. She and John McCain traveled from battleground state to battleground state telling anyone who would listen that their opponent, Senator Barack Obama, was a dangerous radical who "palled around with terrorists" and couldn't be trusted because he might hurt America. Palin, in particular, hit on this theme quite often, and she was supported by an entire conservative media infrastructure that assembled multiple documentaries on Obama's allegedly radical past.

In the end, though, Americans still voted for Obama en masse, handing Palin and McCain a thorough, embarrassing defeat.

Fast forward to 2010, and Palin is now saying that no one even bothered to ask any questions about “Barack Hussein Obama, as a candidate”:

Nobody likes to lose an argument, less so when the argument is lost as badly as Palin lost the 2008 election. And her coping mechanism, it seems, is a hefty dose of denial.

This must be comforting for conservatives who remain convinced that Barack Obama -- I'm sorry, Barack Hussein Obama -- is radical beyond recognition. They can convince themselves that the America they know would never vote for someone like Obama if they actually knew what he really was. It's all the fault of that “lamestream media” who just didn't do their job. If only they had spent more time reporting on Bill Ayers, or Reverend Wright, then McCain and Palin totally would have won.

The reality, of course, is that America either didn't believe Palin's attacks on Obama's past, or they didn't care. The media reported at length about Obama's background, his youth, even going so far as to track down his childhood friends in Indonesia.

But for Palin, that never happened. After all, it's much easier to push your failures off onto someone else than deal with them yourself.