Freedland has a tin ear if he thinks a bunch of Germans gathering together in hero worshipping throngs will appeal to an American voter. Has it only taken a generation for Britain to forget the consequences of such a thing? What is it with Europeans and their cults of personality? Why are they so eager to turn over wider and wider swaths of their lives to the first charlatan who comes along?

Also, if you waste your time actually reading the piece, you will find that it contains the whole litany of canards about Palin that have already been debunked in the US. Don’t they even have access to the internet in the UK?

And my final question is, why does an uninformed, inarticulate and intellectually challenged guy like Freedland get paid to write such rubbish when there are literally thousands of bloggers doing a better job for free?