So Sarah Palin’s out there this week, everywhere, whining about “sexist” magazine covers while she promotes her first foray into the world of literature, the one in which she trashes everyone who isn’t a Jesus Freak with a room temperature IQ. In the course of her trashing, she’s been piling on the McCain campaign, where people were dumb and just didn’t get America’s sweetheart. So naturally, members of the trashed-by-Palin McCain campaign have fired back, with some releasing emails detailing her superdiva-like behavior. For instance, Palin tried to have a campaign rally canceled at the last minute so she could go to New York to cook with Rachael Ray.

The Atlantic details a virtual Palin shitshow of drama within the campaign, which comes as no surprise, but the anecdote about Palin wanting to stiff a bunch of die-hard supporters at a rally and blow off a bunch of interviews so she could kick it with Ray is just funny:

Tension reached a boil on Wednesday, October 15, the start of a two-day trip to New Hampshire. Scheduled events that day included a radio call in to a national conservative talk show host, Mike Gallagher, at least two local print interviews, a one-on-one TV interview with Manchester’s WMUR-TV, a rally in Laconia, an “off the record” event in Concord. A rally in Salem capped off the evening. Then Palin would retire to a hotel in Manchester to watch McCain debate Barack Obama.

Palin would wake up that morning in New York. A few days before the trip, Palin decided that she wanted to slough off some of the local interviews and spend the morning cooking with Rachel Ray, the host of a popular syndicated television program.

She instructed a top aide to inform headquarters that the Dover rally would have to be canceled.

The response from McCain’s headquarters was firm: absolutely not.

“She says she wanted interviews [with the press], but pushed back against the interviews that were scheduled,” a campaign aide who worked with Palin said.

Well, in defense of Sarah Palin here, I’d also wanna cook with Rachael Ray if I had the chance to.