CNN’s Drew Griffin interviewed Sarah Palin:

Yeah. Governor, you’ve been mocked in the press. The press has been pretty hard on you, the Democrats have been pretty hard on you, but also some conservatives have been pretty hard on you as well. The National Review had a story saying that, you know, I can’t tell if Sarah Palin is incompetent, stupid, unqualified, corrupt or all of the above.

Griffin had declared that NR had dismissed Palin as joke. Palin asked who had written that, and Drew, being clueless, could not name the writer.

The National Review writer in question, one of the best, was Byron York. In NR magazine, he wrote:

Watching press coverage of the Republican candidate for vice president, it’s sometimes hard to decide whether Sarah Palin is incompetent, stupid, unqualified, corrupt, backward, or — or, well, all of the above. Palin, the governor of Alaska, has faced more criticism than any vice-presidential candidate since 1988, when Democrats and the press tore into Dan Quayle. In fact, Palin may have it even worse than Quayle, since she’s taking flak not only from Democrats and the press but from some conservative opinion leaders as well.

York was pointing out the media bias, not referring to Governor Palin as a ditz.

Why the bias from Griffin? Perhaps he had to atone for daring earlier to point out that Axelrod and Obama had given $832,000 to CSI, an ACORN front organization, to do GOTV work.