Excerpted from the Nome Observer Courier:

In a frank admission to Fox News on-air personality Greta Van Susteren, Todd Palin admitted that residents of Alaska don’t actually refer to snowmobiles as snowmachines.

“Yep, it started as a joke and then one of McCain’s campaign strategists just went with it,” Palin confessed.

“Something about how people love exotic sounding things.”

Palin shrugged.

“I thought it was a bit ridiculous, but they were supposed to know what they were doing, so we rolled with it and asked the Wasilla residents to do the same.”