ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Fans to Sarah Palin: Please, post a tidbit on Facebook. A little chirp on Twitter would be nice.
It's been five whole days since Palin stepped down as Alaska's governor and her Internet fans are dying to know what's next.
"Sarah can you give us just a hint!" writes one Facebook follower.
"Is there any way you could somehow let us know you're reading this?" the poster asked. "Maybe a little tweet sometime when you get your Twitter up again."
That was actually reported as news by the Associated Press. How embarassing.
The hockey mom-turned politician who promised to launch her change to private life on social networking sites has been quiet so far. In fact, she's gone "dark," leaving supporters to flood the Web with speculation. Palin hasn't said publicly what she's been up to since stepping down, and her spokespeople wouldn't give any details.
The clamor comes amid a vacuum of knowledge about what awaits the former GOP vice presidential candidate since she left the state office Sunday with 16 months remaining in her first term. Her departure came with no elaboration of her long-term political plans. Short-term, she was expected to speak Aug. 8 at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, but her spokeswoman, Meghan Stapleton, posted a note on Palin's Facebook page Thursday that she is not attending the event. She gave no explanation, and did not respond to requests for comment on the ex-governor's plans.
This is a tragic day for American journalism. Sarah Palin "goes dark"? Is that a subliminal racial slur? Hell, that would at least be interesting. Quoting the begging from her sheep is simply nauseating.
The only way to keep myself from crying is to laugh. The media obsession with Sarah Palin's flock of bereft twitterkin reminds me of a joke that Harry Connick Jr. told.
Harry was shopping in a mall in New York, and the local flavor was out in force. He was looking at clothes when an older woman approached him.
"What are you doing? Are you performing here in the mall?", she asked in a heavy accent.
He assured her that he was not, then went to check out. The New Yorker at the cash register was a middle aged guy from Brooklyn who had seen the exchange with the lady.
"I got two questions for ya. Number one, who the fuck are you? And number two, who the hell cares?"
Palin's attorney, Thomas Van Flein, said Palin will resume her Twitter feeds in the near future. He said he was not at liberty to discuss any of her post-office activities.
Where some supporters are concerned, soon is not soon enough to hear from Palin.
"Anyone find it strange that Sarah has not shown up at all on Twitter by now??? If she waits too long, people will move on," one supporter wrote Thursday on the Web site Conservatives 4 Palin.
Uh oh. The "Conservatives 4 Palin" are ready to jump ship WITH THREE QUESTION MARKS. Hopefully they will take the AP rats who consider this to be journalism with them.
Pathetic.