Sarah Palin plays the media like a violin: Her turn now

From the LA TIMES. 

I don’t think I owe anything to the mainstream media," Palin said on Fox. "I think that it would be a mistake for me to become some kind of conventional politician and doing things the way it’s always been done with the media, in terms of relationships with them.”

And if this bus junket sucks some or all of the oxygen out of Mitt Romney's big announcement Thursday, so be it.

Sarah Palin is exactly where she wants to be doing exactly what she wants to do. She is so well known that she does not have to follow the conventional script of all other candidates. This country has serious problems and she will take her message about the solutions directly to the people without the filter of the MSM. She has nearly two years to change the impression that people have about her competence. The media overdid their demonization; it set the bar so low that she can virtually waltz over it. Now she will campaign her own way, in her own time and via her own communications channels. And the media yap-dogs will be left in her wake.  They have to cover her but they will hate every minute of it.

This strategy fits the independent woman-of-the-people optics Palin wants now, much as she's relied for months on Facebook and Twitter to spoonfeed the public and media exactly and only what she wants out there. Talk of "true change." Restoring America, not transforming it.

Palin's career has been one improbable success after another.

Who'd have thought going in that a Wasilla city councilwoman would become mayor? Or make such a stir on the oil and gas commission? Or challenge an entrenched aged state Republican establishment and its incumbent governor? And actually win that primary?

And then in the general, defeat a better-known Democrat trying to return to the governor's office? And remember too when Palin's surprise gubernatorial resignation halfway through the first term terminated, according to the media, any chance that she'd have any role in American politics ever again?

Judging by the attempted coverage of her not-so-secret "One Nation" bus tour this week by the same media, apparently not.

Donald Trump and Sarah Palin have a pizza summit in New York.