After NBC canceled me "for life" on Monday -- until seven or eight hours later when the ban was splashed across the top of The Drudge Report, forcing a red-faced NBC to withdraw the ban -- an NBC insider told The Drudge Report: "We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical of President-elect Obama, right now," explaining that "it's such a downer. It's just not the time, and it's not what our audience wants, either."

In point of fact, I'm not particularly critical of Obama in my new book. I'm critical of the media for behaving like a protection racket for Obama rather than the constitutionally protected guardians of our liberty that they claim to be. So I think what the NBC insider meant to say is that NBC is not interested in anyone so highly critical of NBC right now. It's such a downer, it's just not the time, and it's not what their audience wants right now, either. Read On

Media Malpractice Finally, Sarah Palin speaks out against the mainstream media who slandered and slaughtered her this past election cycle in an interview with documentary filmmaker John Ziegler. Though it is absolutely unfathomable that she still must defend her reputation and her family, I’m thrilled she is on offense.

I’m even more impressed that she didn’t waste time fighting with the media during the campaign and waited until now so as not to distract from the mission at hand. That is a recurring and flawed Republican campaign strategy: wage war on the press instead of your opponent. It’s a tactic that never works and it reaffirms my past points that Palin was — and is — much savvier than the handlers that advised her and the press that covered her.

Most truthful was Palin’s point to Ziegler that her lashing from press came down to a simple issue: class. She couldn’t be more correct.

Interestingly, Palin didn’t blame the double standard she faced over the fact that she’s a conservative or a woman.. Read On

MADAM DISCREDITS PALIN Sarah Palin was rejected not only by most levels of media bias, but according to a Manhattan madam couldn't make the grade as a lady of the night. Favored were Girl-next-door Katie Holmes could make a mint charging by the hour - but pit-bull-in-lipstick Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin should keep her day job. So says Manhattan madam Kristin Davis, dishing on how celebrities would fare in the world's oldest profession. In an interview with Steppin' Out, the Wicked Models boss arrested after the Eliot Spitzer scandal rated A-listers on how much they could earn as ladies of the night. "Katie would be very popular because she has that All-American college girl look," Davis said of Tom Cruise's wife. "I could probably get $2,500 an hour for Katie. Maybe even $3,000." Angelina Jolie would also be a crowd pleaser. "She would be my top girl. I call it my 'Number One,'" Davis said during an interview at the Thompson Hotel. "I would put her at $2,000 an hour. But you couldn't get her unless you booked her for four hours." Davis thinks Britney Spears could command $2,000 an hour, too, now that she has cleaned up her act. During her shaved-head period, she would have earned half that, she said. Davis, who served three months in jail, is about to publish a book, "The Real Sex in the City: True Tales of the Manhattan Madam." She claims it will contain the names of powerful politicians, Wall Street bigwigs, celebrities, doctors and lawyers who patronized her call-girl ring. Some of her prostitutes earned up to $1,600 an hour, but Davis says not everyone can command those prices. Take former vice presidential candidate Palin. "I wouldn't have any market for her," she said. "She's cute, but not for my kind of clients ... She could work for a cheaper agency - maybe a $300-an-hour type agency." Really states CfD. Davis' opinion, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Melania Trump also all would fare well in the oldest profession, fetching upward of $2,000 an hour. Most Playboy Playmates, on the other hand, are too "fake looking" and their "boobs are too big" to draw top dollar from her usual clientele, says the madam. Despite not making the list, a good thing -- CfD declares Sarah Palin the winner in morality and decency.

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