Several folks have already taken the Washington Post to task for publishing a factually incorrect Sarah Palin Op-Ed in today’s paper.  And many have already noted that the piece is an updated version of a rant Palin published on Facebook six days ago.

But his appears to violate the Post’s own Op-Ed guidelines, which unequivocally state: ‘Op-eds may not have been submitted to, posted to or published by any other media.’

While today’s Op-Ed is not exactly identical to last week’s Facebook note, the similarities are overwhelming. In addition to making the same argument, many of the phrases and sentences are exactly the same.

The Post also offers the following guidance to would-be Op-Ed contributors:

You also don’t need to have an important title — and having an important title doesn’t mean we’ll publish your op-ed. In fact, because we realize that senators, business leaders, heads of state and the like have access to various platforms where they can express their views, we hold them to a particularly high standard when considering whether to publish them in The Post.

If this they held this piece to ‘a particularly high standard’ I’d hate to see their normal standards. Oh wait, we already have.