To Parapharse the Vice President, "It's a Big Deal!"

We might be witnessing the biggest historical event of our lives. Yes, the biggest event we have ever seen might just be Sarah Palin's bus tour. That's right. The bus tour.

All our lives the priveleged news media have treated us like children. They decided what was appropriate for us to see and not to see. Their wisdom, such that it is, mediated every facet of public discourse. To get our points across we had to grovel before our overlords and if we were good, they might pat us on our heads. The kindly, responsible parents sometimes admonished us for our silly ideas and sent us outside to play.

It wasn't just too long ago that office seekers were required to bow before their lords and ladies and beg for their approval. Was approval granted in a fair and reasoned manner? No! Our social superiors weeded out candidates who did not espouse politically correct positions. It was for our own good, after all. Their judgment is always better than ours.

But then DARPA developed the Internet and the Internet begat Youtube and Facebook and Twitter. Now more than ever, the old media are obsolete. Sarah Palin recognizes their obsolesence and no longer speaks to them. This is significant. This is profound. This is a earth shattering.

If Sarah Palin runs for president, she will be the first serious candidate to deliberately bypass the news media. If the alphabet soup can no longer tilt the table for their favorites, it is a new era. With each passing national election, the media grew more overtly biased. The referees had become the superstars. The 2000 national elections were all about the media. The 2004 elections, even more so. The 2008 elections more than we thought possible. It was all about the pretty boys and their seven (and eight) figure salaries.

Palin stops playing by their rules and the shills go apoplectic. To ignore them is to disrespect them. Who the hell does she think she is? She obviously does not know her place. Their indignation knows no bounds. In 2008, they were the masters of the universe. In 2011, they are wallflowers. Hell hath no fury like a spurned Has Been.

Palin, with the help of social networks, has possibly ushered in a new era. Since the genesis of our republic, we have been at the mercy of the gate keeper media. Now, the gate keeper era might be coming to an end. In the words of Joe Biden, "It's a big fluffy deal."