To quote an ex pat American blogger who apparently understands a joke......

'Any intelligent person knows that Sarah Palin was joking when she said that she could Russia from her house.
It's pure hyperbole.
But everyone in the media keeps repeating it over and over, and I'm certain that some people probably actually believe it to be true.
I bet that even the people that understand the hyperbole probably don't realize just how much of an exaggeration it really is.'

It seems those folks over at The Huffington Post must be having a bad day for real news however as this 'shock, horror revelation' made their frontpage today.

'The town's residents barely knew who Palin was, and one of them didn't know she was the VP nominee.'

Nothing like throwing in a little amusement at the expemse of the ignorant 'yokels' to titilate the readers while you're at it!