Katie Couric is involved way deeper into this Sarah Palin thing than we ever thought possible. Quick, someone get us a large ball of red string and some newspaper clippings and some wall glue: there's a conspiracy to unravel!

Well, not so much. But it is weird that Nicole Wallace, the McCain aide being pinned with all that Sarah Palin wardrobe debt, is actually quite close to Katie Couric, and according to the staff over at Wowowow who talked to two McCain staffers (presumably not Martin Eisenstadt and associates), Wallace hired on two other of Katie's usual stylists to work on Palin and her family, and it was those two unnamed stylists who bought all the clothing for Palin.

"[I] didn’t know the New York stylists who they had hired or anything else. They were really nice gals. They were wonderful people. And you know, it was, I guess, productive, in a sense, in that they picked out some really nice clothes to borrow for a while there. But that was not anything that the Palin family would have chosen for ourselves."

So Palin was just a naive pawn in this larger game of Katie Couric's staff versus the entire GOP! Just a stupid, hate-filled, opportunistic little pawn who's not managed to return some of these expensive items that were supposed to go to charity because aw shucks, it's just so gosh-darn hard to keep track of clothing when you are busy spitting angry rhetoric to a racist crowd. Palin '12!