There’s a neat symmetry to the fact that, the day after Keith Olbermann responded to gleeful rumors of his own demise, he posits the end of the line for Sarah Palin. Emboldened by the release of thousands of Palin emails, the inauspiciously racist kickoff to the Palin-headlined “Tea Party Convention,” and Palin’s truckling response to Rush Limbaugh’s cowardly “retard” litany, Keith asks if the countdown is on to the end of Palin’s political career.

Yes, this is another “Retard-gate” post. Why? Because while I agree that Palin is right to condemn Rahm Emanuel’s use of the term “retard,” and I agree that Sarah Palin’s failure to call out Rush Limbaugh is hypocritical, I still think everybody is dropping the ball on this.