March 17, 2009 | 9:30 AM EDT
After Palin joined the Republican ticket, Newsweek’s Howard Fineman scoffed that she took the experience issue off the table for the GOP. “Sarah Palin makes Barack Obama look like John Adams. I mean, it’s just no contest,” he declared on MSNBC’s Countdown, August 29, 2008.
A nominee for the "Half-Baked Alaska Award for Pummeling Palin" at the MRC's 2009 DisHonors Awards and gala.