Los Angeles Times blogger/former Bush spokesman/de facto Palin aide Andrew Malcolm ignores the former half-term governor's dreadful poll numbers to ask: "Will the good news never end for Sarah Palin?" The truthful answer to that question is, of course, "yes." Malcolm's answer, on the other hand ...

She's got a hit cable TV show.

Depends on how you define “hit.” Three million people watched the second episode -- in a country of more than 300 million people. Of those who watched the first episode, 40 percent decided not to watch the second. Is that a “hit”?

Polls of Republicans show the former Alaska governor is currently a most popular candidate for the party's 2012 presidential nomination.

Palin is "a most popular candidate"? What does that mean? It means not even Malcolm thinks he can claim Palin is the most popular candidate. In other words, it means that even after two years in which the news media has hung on her every Tweet, Sarah Palin hasn't been able to separate herself from the likes of Mike Huckabee, who most Americans probably couldn't pick out of a police lineup. More good news for Palin!

With Malcolm's spin on Palin's behalf reaching Baghdad Bob levels of transparency and absurdity, maybe it's time to start calling him Anchorage Andy?