Peter Robinson notes that more people watched Palin than watched Hillary. But the more worthy comparison is Palin’s 37 million viewers with Joe Biden’s… 24 million.

We shouldn’t be surprised; many Americans have seen Biden speak, and there would have been remarkable curiosity about Palin, even if the MSM hadn’t turned her family life into a tabloid reality show.

I noted, and you’ll see in the upcoming Red Meat, that we shouldn’t have been surprised that Palin gave a good speech; it’s tough to be elected governor without some public speaking skills. Giving a speech is nothing new to Palin. But watching Palin is new to the rest of us; as far as the Beltway journalists are concerned, Palin was effectively “born” last Friday. They know next to nothing about her.

We shouldn’t be surprised by comments like this…

Not only does Palin’s inexperience trump Obama’s… her “otherness” also trumps his. Where she comes from, the way she talks, her bio, lifestyle, and all the moose and caribou stuff… it makes her seem more exotic than Obama, who after all lives in the middle of America and has a life that people can readily understand.

Why should the MSM vet Obama? In their minds, he comes from where they did – Columbia, Harvard Law, a law firm, part-time teaching job. He’s one of them. He has to be “good people.” But this Sarah Palin woman – for heaven’s sake, she went to a state school. She calls herself this, “hockey mom” thing. She chose to have a child with Down’s syndrome, fires guns, kills animals, lives in a state that seems like a possible vacation destination, not a home of choice. To many members of the press, the life of Palin is incomprehensible, alien, and impossible to relate to — as otherworldly as a Martian.