I just finished watching a video clip of Gov Palin at the Republican Governor Association's shindig and I flashed back to my student pilot days.  Listening to Palin reminds me of flying a small plane.  While piloting the plane, you look to the horizon and steer a general course to your destination, rather than making small, herky jerky corrections. To listen to Palin, you have to hear to the horizon:  if you listen to each word in her sentences, your mind is jerked left and right by the redundancies, inconsistencies, lost threads, and head-shaking statements.  You must simply steer your "earcraft" towards the end of her press conference.  When she's finished, your craft pops out of the fog, you orientate your position, reflect on what you think you thought you heard, and head for a safe landing somewhere.