Was it just a mis-typed tweet? On Sarah Palin’s Alaska Sunday, Sarah Palin mentioned the dustup over her use of the made-up word “refudiate,” telling husband Todd she’d merely made a typo while sending a Twitter message on her Blackberry.

But the New York Daily News calls foul, noting that prior to that tweet, Palin had used the word in an appearance on the Fox News show Hannity:

In an aside during SNL‘s “Weekend Update” segment, Seth Meyers chastised the New Oxford American Dictionary for selecting Sarah Palin‘s literary “fender-bender” refudiate as the 2010 Word of the Year. The stern lecture, titled “Come on, Dictionary,” had the exasperated fake news host urging the Oxford University Press not to celebrate Palin’s accidental mash-up and offering evidence as to why the Alaskan politician is no William Shakespeare.

One musn’t underestimate the power Sarah Palin wields. Her massive influence has touched a lot of spheres of American life, and she’s now making her mark on an unlikely one—lexicography. First her term ‘hockey mom’ broke into the New Oxford American Dictionary. Now her portmanteau ‘refudiate’ has been declared by that same dictionary as the 2010 Word of the Year.

On the heels of Kathleen Parker‘s admission/boast that she “led the (media) assassination” of Sarah Palin during the 2008 campaign, Palin responded via Twitter “Parker: appreciate your admittance. Now, I’m still standing;Standing by family, faith & flag. Who do u stand by today?”

Malapropisms aside, Palin seems to be taking a rather thinly-veiled shot at fellow gubernatorial resignee, and Parker/Spitzer co-host, Eliot Spitzer. After the jump, a bit of further irony, plus Mediaite founder and NBC Chief Legal AnalystDan Abrams pays a visit to Parker/Spitzer to discuss the Parker/Palin feud.

Love her or hate her, Sarah Palin has influence. If you doubt this, look no further than former Bush adviser Ed Gillespie‘s appearance on CBS News’ Face the Nation today. In responding to charges that he’s helping to “steal our democracy,” Gillespie resurrected the former Alaska governor’s most infamous malapropism, stating that several newspapers had “refudiated” the claim. Was it a mistake, or the start of a campaign to vindicate Palin by rewriting linguistic history? You be the judge. (h/t Think Progress)

Who’d have guessed. Apparently some PBS watchers are also Sarah Palin supporters. Or at least Sarah Palin sympathizers. Comedian Andy Borowitz, in his short, funny segment that appears at the end of Jon Meacham‘s ‘Need to Know’ PBS news show, this week made fun of Sarah Palin. Specifically he mocked her ‘Palinese’ and speculated what the country would look like when she became president in 2012, per the ‘Mayan Prophecy Weekly’.