The Fraud Squad
You’ve no doubt heard the one about how Sarah Palin didn’t know Africa was a continent. Early last November, a few days after Palin returned to being merely a governor, a former campaign adviser stepped forward to claim credit for this anecdote attesting to her true, unplumbed ignorance. His name is Martin Eisenstadt, and contrary to what New Republic and Los Angeles Times blogs had earlier reported, he is not real: He is the invention of two filmmakers frustrated by the media’s fickle, cycle-centric nature. It’s not difficult to see how the hoax ensnared so many. A quick Google search summoned