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“It’s like a really bad Disney movie … ‘Oh I’m just a hockey mom from Alaska!’ … She’s facing down Vladimir Putin using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink.” — Matt Damon

Not that Matt Damon is one of our most knowledgeable pundits in media, but the point raised in this video should set the tone for stories on Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Who is she? What is her background, apart from a hockey mom that denigrates community organizers (never mind the fact that some hockey moms, and all politicians are community organizers).