JOE McGINNISS

Henry Blodget, CEO and editor-in-chief of Business Insider, writes that Northern Kentucky University professor Brad Scharlott alleges Sarah Palin “probably staged a gigantic hoax about being Trig’s mother,” but “our media has been too wimpy and pathetic to investigate.”

The sleeping bear is awake now and starting to growl.

To be clear: I am not at this point accusing Sarah of staging a hoax in regard to Trig.

I am, however, like Andrew Sullivan at The Daily Beast and Jesse Griffin at The Immoral Minority, saying that mainstream media, as well as Alaskan media and some otherwise progressive Alaska bloggers, gave Sarah a free pass re Trig in 2008, and have continued to denigrate anyone who suggests that the issue–a cornerstone of her political identity–is worth exploring.

The question now is whether the mainstreamers will revoke the pass, given that they’ve written Sarah off for 2012.