There has always been a mutually beneficial element to Sarah Palin's relationship with the political press, from which she earns copious coverage despite routinely chastising the "lame-stream media."So it was mildly amusing, though not wholly surprising, when Palin took a sharp jab at Maureen Dowd on Monday for a column in which the New York Times' scribe called her the "queen bee" of the "mean girls.""That's so funny, because I don't think I've ever met that gal, Maureen Dowd -- O'Dowd -- whatever the heck her name is," Palin said.