Ironic, don't ya think, considering that for the last year or so Pain has basically refused to answer questions from any independent, serious journalist. Palin will not answer questions from non-right-wing or non-Fox News journalists. She refuses. (Not that the Beltway press corps seems to mind being habitually snubbed.) But yesterday on Facebook--did I mention she refuses to interact with actual reporters?--Palin attacked a political blogger because he wouldn't take questions from the press.

The context was the unfolding controversy within Republican, South Carolina circles over whether or not gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley once had affair with a conservative blogger, Will Folks. This week, Folks went public with an admission that he had an “inappropriate physical relationship” with Haley while she was married. But Haley denied the claim.

Enter Palin, who had already backed Haley in the South Carolina campaign [emphasis added]:

Well, whaddya know? South Carolina's conservative candidate, Nikki Haley, recently zipped to the front of the line in her state's race for governor; and lo and behold, now accusations of an affair surface.

Nikki categorically denies the accusation that was spewed out there by a political blogger who has the gall to throw the stone, but then quickly duck and hide and proclaim he would not comment further on the issue. Quite convenient.

Aside from the fact that Palin clearly left the impression on Facebook that blogger Folks is a liberal political opponent, which is the opposite of being true (Folks used to work for S.C.'s Republican governor, Mark Sanford), the idea that Palin, who won't talk to the press, condemned a blogger who won't talk to the press, hits the hypocrisy mark pretty hard.