the latest (?) palin embarrassment

So, evidently, Palin spent five minutes on the phone yesterday speaking to a person with an absurd French accent whom she believed to be President Sarkozy. Turns out, she had been prank called by my now favorite Quebecois comedy duo, the Masked Avengers. First off, let's give credit where credit's due, both Palin and her assistant (Bexsy?) seem to know who President Sarkozy is, or at least that he is a real and not fictitious important person. Beyond that, Joan Walsh, of Salon.com, notes that Palin:

Might have known she was being pranked by Quebec comedy duo Masked Avengers when a comedian posing as French president Nicolas Sarkozy talked about going hunting with Palin by helicopter, and exclaimed, "I just love killing those animals, taking away life, that is so fun!" He also asked if Joe the Plumber was her husband, and told her he enjoyed "the documentary they made on your life, 'Nailin' Palin,' that was really edgy," a reference to a recent Palin-inspired porn film.

So, should Palin have been able to figure out that it wasn't Sarkozy? Perhaps not. After all, Palin's cardinal belief about influential world leaders seems to be that they don't need to (or perhaps shouldn't) have any knowledge about influential domestic court cases or prominent national newspapers let alone have any curiosity, intellectual or otherwise, about what goes on outside the borders of their own state. I'm sure that she found Sarkozy's confusion about her relationship to Joe the Plumber and the genre of "Nailin' Palin" to be not only understandable, but the undeniable mark of positive, uninformed leadership.