"Since the Dish has tried to be rigorous and careful in analyzing Palin's unhinged grip on reality from the very beginning..."

"... specifically her fantastic story of her fifth pregnancy — we feel it's vital that we grapple with this new data as fairly and as rigorously as possible. That takes time to get right. And it is so complicated we simply cannot focus on anything else."

Andrew Sullivan curls up with a book. He's "gone silent," he says.

There is a possibility here of such a huge scandal that we would be crazy not to take our time either to debunk it or move it forward for further examination.

Huh? What's up? What "new data"? Just the book itself? The book is pablum. How long can it take to digest?

ADDED: This is pure speculation, but I wonder if Palin has threatened to sue Sullivan for defamation.