An Anchorage Daily News reporter does not find the hard working Governor that others see in the Palin e-mails, but something else entirely.

From http://philly.com/:

I followed Palin's governorship as a journalist for the Anchorage Daily News, and I've read many of the e-mails. What I see in them, however, is not a governor deeply engaged in governing Alaska, but a governor deeply engaged in sending a constant stream of e-mails.

Palin's BlackBerry addiction was well-known among Alaska journalists. She was famous for always having two of them on hand. Her revenue commissioner, Pat Galvin, told me she would kick off cabinet meetings with a brief introduction and then turn them over to others while she worked away at her BlackBerries.

A key aide on oil and gas issues, Marty Rutherford, told me she was surprised by Palin's ability to multitask. But at times Palin had to be told to put down the BlackBerry and focus on the complex issues at hand.

In following Palin and researching a forthcoming book about her, I found a common theme: She is not a detail person. In the words of Larry Persily, who worked on federal issues for her, "she does not stay up late at night reading briefing books."

Palin's excellent staff on oil and gas issues helped her win big victories in that arena. But Persily told me that "people couldn't get her attention on things beyond oil and gas," which "required more knowledge and more depth than she was willing to put into it. ... She just wanted things simplified so much."

The e-mails do show Palin busily networking with national Republicans and responding to opponents. In fact, she was more engaged in the details of rebutting critics than in the details of some issues. She closely followed critical comments on the Anchorage Daily News' politics blog, ghostwrote letters to the editor, and exhorted her charges to respond to online polls in her favor. She even complained that she didn't have enough time to monitor her portrayal in the media.

It probably will not hurt the future sales of the book Matthew Zencey is writing about Palin's tenure as governor that he is not afraid to tell the truth about the self centered half term Governor.

I am still amazed how easily people are fooled into believing this woman was anything except an uncultured, overly ambitious opportunist who used everybody who came into contact with her and then threw them away like a used Kleenex.

The Palin mythology, it appears, is so bright, shiny, and palatable, that people are drawn to it instead of the truth, which is quite dark and difficult to digest.