Just received this e-mail:

Sent: Thu 9/25/2008 11:32 AM To: Kathryn Lopez Subject: Deafening silence on Palin train wreck Yesterday you wrote that “Many readers relay that they’d like McCain to just offer Palin step in for him.” Yeah, she’s so good that, in the now 18 hours since her train wreck with Katie Couric last night, not one word has posted at the Corner concerning that interview. NOT ONE WORD. Bad news just doesn’t exist in your world, does it? Just close your eyes and maybe it will go away.

Yes, bad news doesn’t exist in my world. Which is why I criticized McCain yesterday — bad news — which brought me scores of e-mails from angry conservatives who thought the McCain move was brilliant — not good news until it proves true.

Actually, I’m just sitting here wishing Sarah Palin could have married Mitt Romney — then these Christianists could rule a Brave New Theocracy together and I wouldn’t have to pay attention to another politician again.

But I digress.

Everytime there’s not a post on something — from a presidential hiccup to the Emmys — I will inevitably get an e-mail about the “deafening silence” of “The Corner.” I watched Katie with Sarah last night. And I found the whole thing jarring (and not because it was a “train wreck” on Palin’s part — it wasn’t). The CBS Evening News is sitting on an interview through Monday? At a moment like this? When everyone’s complaining Palin isn’t talking about the press? All substance of the part of the interview she deemed to show us last night was trumped by what a bad programming decision I thought not showing it all is.

I think the whole interview may be online — I think Couric said it is. I haven’t made it there to find yet. If I, who live on the Internet, did not watch it yet, I don’t think most Americans will be.

I did mention the Great Depression talk yesterday here, FWIW, and Amity Shlaes, an expert on just that, commented in an interview with me up this morning.