Everything about this video produced to give thanks for Sarah Palin sounded legitimate, and then I watched it. And everything — save the part about the troops — looks like a parody that Tina Fey will jump into at any second.

Yet it all checks out. It will air on cable station across the US this weekend. A conservative group called Our Country Deserves Better [1] claims to have paid for and created the ad as a counterattack to the media bashing thrown her way. But the conspirator in me says it cannot be real. Or can it?