Is this newsroom game ever going to get old?

You know the drill: Reporters and pundits go on and on about Sarah Palin's White House prospects. (FYI, they really want her to run.) But either out of some odd courtesy to her, or more likely because they don't want to flag the obvious flaw in the media's preferred Palin-might-run! narrative, any mention of her truly abysmal polling numbers is politely ignored.

The strange part is that the Journal article actually does address the issue of Palin and polling. Just not the most relevant part:

In a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll in mid-October, Republicans cited her most often as the “most important leader or spokesperson'' for the GOP. Ms. Palin was named by 19% of Republicans in the survey, ahead of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, at 16%, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, at 14%, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, at 13%.

Independent voters also cited Ms. Palin as the ”most important'' GOP leader, but they listed Mr. Romney second most frequently, with Mr. Huckabee a more distant third.

You know what else recent polls have shown? Sarah Palin is not well liked, nor is she respected, by most Americans, or even by most Republicans. (Fact: She polls on par with BP.)

But hey, other than that her WH chances seem bright.