Now Even The NYT Concurs: Sarah Palin Is A Media Brand

Does this finally make it official? In case you’ve missed the months of media coverage on Sarah Palin, the New York Times’ media columnist David Carr has weighed in on the matter and declared her “a one-woman national media empire.”

This, mind you, follows Howie Kurtz’s column of last week which declared that Kurtz was “increasingly convinced that Sarah Palin is running to head a media empire rather than a presidential campaign.” Which followed a slew of posts from us saying basicially the same thing. However, the NYT being what it is I suspect that this conclusion on Carr’s part may be a revelation to some of it’s readers, who may also breathe a sigh of relief over the idea that Palin actually has no real political ambitions. Anyway, this from Carr, who says that if the media doesn’t get the Palin genius, than we are seriously lame.

Many observers thought her unwillingness to serve out her term would be fatal to her ambitions, but the fact that governance did not suit her — she resigned as governor back in July — has become a kind of credential.

Ms. Palin still gets a session in the media spanking machine every time she does anything, but the disapproval seems to further cement the support of her loyalists. Ms. Palin may or may not be qualified to represent America around the world, but she certainly represents vast swaths of the American public and has a lucrative new career to show for it.

If we don’t see why, then maybe we deserve the “lamestream media” label she likes to give us.