GREAT MOMENTS WITH SARAH PALIN

Raw Story - Authorities turned away reporters who didn't speak English from a Palin event in Minnesota this week, demanding that reporters address the former Alaska governor only in English and refer to her only as "governor."

Event planners at the Mall of Americas now say it was only a "misunderstanding." Palin was scheduled to appear as part of her book-signing tour.

"Officials at the Minnesota mega-mall this week told reporters planning to cover the Minneapolis-area stop on Palin's Going Rogue book tour they must address the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate who resigned as governor last summer by her old title - a common honor, actually, which normally is accorded to former governors," the Chicago Tribune's Mark Silva wrote.

"But the mall also was banning foreign reporters," he added, "permitting 'only English speaking press.' That's not a common requirement."

Mall officials apologized have since apologized for distributing the guidelines, calling the move "an internal communication."

But they went a step further, perhaps showing a few too many of their cards -- instead of just leaving at an apology, they added that the problem was that the guidelines were "inadvertently distributed."

"In other words," Silva quips, "it got out."