Russia through binoculars

Richard Cohen is fighting mad about the media and Sarah Palin.

Can you imagine the feverish blogging across the political spectrum if Clinton had claimed credit for stopping a bridge that, in fact, had set her heart aflutter? What if she had shown that she didn't know squat about the Constitution, if she could not tell Katie Couric what newspapers or magazines she read or if she had claimed an intimacy with foreign affairs based on sighting Russia through binoculars?

Indeed. One wonders where a man like Cohen (who assumes McCain an expert on foreign affairs because of his familiarity with Vietnamese torture techniques of the 1970s) draws the line when conferring qualification on the basis of irrelevant experience. But happily he's on the right side of it this time.