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Published: December 2nd, 2009 12:32 PM Last Modified: December 2nd, 2009 01:16 PM
Link: The New Republic Academics are now joining journalists, fashion designers and moviemakers on the Sarah Palin publicity gravy train. Clive Thomas, a political science professor at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau, is being billed by the campus as an expert-for-hire on the speaking circuit and has filled gigs as far away as Brazil. Thomas says he tries to keep his talks neutral. "My talk may be about Sarah Palin, but I don't understand her," Thomas said.