Sarah Palin showed on 'Today' that she's learned a lot about handling manipulative interviewers. Each time Matt Lauer tried to get her to reveal disappointment with Romney's front-runner status, she bridged expertly to her basic message that any GOP candidate would be far better than Obama. The L.C. was once coached in using this bridging technique and suspects Palin, too, has had plentiful coaching. Good for her. Another view of her performance is here.