4Chan is a meme fountain, spewing the viral pop-culture goodness of our modern time. The message board’s lingo apparently perplexed both prosecution and defense attorneys during his April 22, 2010, testimony.

Amid the questions: What does “404″ mean? What does “peeps” stand for? And “Rickroll?”

Business Insider pulls a montage of the best quotes from the full back-and-forth, as originally posted by The Smoking Gun.

For his part, David Letterman said before the top ten list that he didn’t even know Palin was going to be in town and issued an apology, stating that the joke was about Bristol, not Willow Palin. Furthermore, he reminds people that he’s a comic and he doesn’t always have the best taste.

But the real story here is John Ziegler who makes a complete ass of himself on live television because he disagrees with people. This is the problem with debate in the country, and is really a microcosm for all the problems with the Republican Party at the moment. Brewer shows herself to be open and willing to talk with him about the actual content of the interview, and tries to ask some questions. Ziegler responds by insulting her, her network, the media in general and basically does everything but answer the questions he’s asked. Rather than sit down and have a conversation as to why David Letterman would make such a joke and why Sarah Palin would call attention to it by actually responding to it, he proceeds to accuse NBC and CBS of–basically–being in a liberal conspiracy. What Ziegler must realize is that NBC would never do anything to give favors to David Letterman. The late night ratings battle is one of the most long lasting feuds on television. And Letterman may have the upper hand again.

But even Sarah Palin’s bizarre reaction to being made fun of by Letterman can’t compare to Rush Limbaugh’s reaction Brewer letting Ziegler trash her network for four minutes on the air. Now that’s funny.

I’ll say no more.

The one time a magazine is abused for not doctoring a photo, and it’s for political gain. No surprises there.

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The cover story focuses on Palin’s “folksy” nature, examining the hype and dismay over perceived intelligence of the Republican’s heir-apparent to the presidency.

Is this an elitist point of view? Perhaps, though it seems only reasonable and patriotic to hold candidates for high office to high standards. Elitism in this sense is not about educational or class credentials, not about where you went to school or whether you use “summer” as a verb. It is, rather, about the pursuit of excellence no matter where you started out in life. Jackson, Lincoln, Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan and Clinton were born to ordinary families, but they spent their lives doing extraordinary things, demonstrating an interest in, and a curiosity about, the world around them. This is much less evident in Palin’s case.

In the case of other candidates, it’s about what they know. In the case of Palin, it’s about what she doesn’t know.

Perhaps Palin knows someone at Newsweek who can oust the offending photographer?

Curious, I clicked the story to see what, if any, surprises awaited:

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The Associated Press is once again demonstrating that they’ve got a sense of humor.  In a story today regarding the continuing ethics investigation of Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, they  began with:

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Trying to head off a potentially embarrassing state ethics report on GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report Thursday that clears her of any wrongdoing.

I mean really?  That was supposed to work?  Sarah Palin says she didn’t do anything wrong so everyone is just supposed to shut up about it?  Seriously WTF.  I don’t understand what it is about the GOP that makes it think that it can just invent their own reality.  This entire ordeal really captures what I can’t stand about the Republican party. They spent $40 million (and remember this is the party of small government) to find out if Bill got head in the oval office, and screamed bloody murder about how it was necessary to preserve the integrity and dignity of the office. When W got into office, all the sudden no one was supposed to care about ethics.  Investigate Bush’s illegal orders to install wiretaps with no judicial oversight?  How dare you question what the government needs to do to protect us from terrorists!  Ask that the White House comply with oversight regulations regarding phone logs and e-mails?  Well clearly you’re just some partisan hack who hates America.  Think that perhaps the highest levels of the administration should not be outing CIA agents as part of revenge plots?  Support the troops, Commie.

I’m just glad that the McCain camp is investigating this Obama/Ayers matter.  I have no doubt that McCain did thorough background checks on everyone in all 8 of his neighborhoods and made sure that he was in total philosophical agreement with everyone that he ever served on boards with, and that his running mate carefully vetted all of her close associates.  We can only expect the same level of diligence from Obama.

Misidentified Tina Fey for Sara Palin

Can you pass the Palin/Fey challenge? I got a 9 out of ten in a Chicago Tribune poll Palin or Fey. Test yourself here

You betcha!

Palin, at a rally in Clearwater, Florida this morning, spoke about her “less than successful interview” with CBS’ Katie Couric. See some crowd-shot footage of the speech here, about one minute in.

“I was just trying to keep Tina Fey in business, just giving her more information,” she said. “Job security for S.N.L. characters.”

She might not be stopping there, a Chicago Sun-Times columnist says:

Some key McCain staffers are content with Palin joking about the “SNL” routines on the campaign trail — as when she scribbled “I’m not Tina Fey” on a supporter’s cell phone and said she’d dressed as Fey on Halloween. But others — including the governor herself — think a return punch on the NBC airwaves is what’s needed.

I’m hearing some sort of Palin tweak of Fey’s American Express commercials is in the works.

Bets on her effing that up, too?

[via Dlisted.com, thanks @peconge for the find.]

Below the fold, a look at what debate moderator Gwen Ifil thought about the SNL skit, as told to Meet the Press on Sunday.