A number of you have written in to say that, after due photographic diligence, it appears that our favorite picture of Sarah Palin is a damnable forgery. Rarely has reader mail made us so deeply depressed. Still, our High Journalistic Standards here at VDB demand that we 86 the photo forthwith, and turn to an utterly authentic image, more flattering to the Vice Presidential prospects of the woman now beloved by America as “Phyllis Schlafly, with moose.”

Abject apologies to the McCain camp for the error.