Don’t believe everything you read. Maybe not even the following information. “On the Internet”, as they say, “no-one knows you’re a dog“. Apparently all the hoopla about Sarah Palin thinking Africa was a country was the result of the media falling for an absurd parody of a think tank (The Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy), a political expert (Martin Eisenstadt),  and his blog. See this New York Times piece for the convoluted details.