That’s because, for once, we understand why. When other actors started ragging on Sarah Palin, it was because they were cynically trying to prove that they’re not just moronic overpaid puppets with nice hair. But now Meg Ryan has decided to express her opinion on Sarah Palin, and her rationale for doing so comes from a much purer place.

Don’t you see? Meg Ryan is only trying to jump in on Sarah Palin because she just wants everyone to remember that she actually exists. It’s OK Meg Ryan, we remember. You can go now.

Let’s play a game. It’s a good game that we’ve just invented. It’s called The Next Person To Even Mention Sarah Palin Gets Kicked In The Jaw.

Because, dear God celebrities, we get it. We get that Sarah Palin is a clueless-looking redneck who perpetually lives in the dark, often huddles inside moose entrails for warmth and thinks that Earth was created last Wednesday by a robot with a beard. We get it because you haven’t bloody shut up about it for the last few weeks.

In a way, it proves what a divisive figure Sarah Palin is – the last time Diddy and Matt Damon and Pamela Anderson and Lindsay Lohan spoke out about the same subject it was because the valet service at Nobu can be dreadfully slapdash at times – but, in another way, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up.

However, having said that, if there’s one female celebrity who we’ll allow to have an opinion on Sarah Palin it’s Meg Ryan. That’s because Meg Ryan genuinely hasn’t had an opinion about anything since she was ostracised from Hollywood for having it off with Russell Crowe behind Dennis Quaid’s back and then getting some weird surgery done on her face to made her mouth look like a kind of disgusting fleshy Ikea shelving unit.

So, without any further ado, here’s Meg Ryan’s staggering profound take on Sarah Palin:

“I guess we have to root for her in that her son just went off to Iraq, that’s gotta be really, really tough. But she doesn’t represent my politics at all.”

What? Christ, no wonder you’re not famous any more, Meg Ryan. That hardly makes it seem as if you hate Sarah Palin at all. Didn’t you get the memo? You’re allowed to either hate Sarah Palin with every fibre of your body or dance around in a stetson firing a gun into the sky and crying at Toby Keith songs. That statement? Well, it’s neither. What a completely pointless thing for you to say.

Of course, it helps that Meg Ryan has a new movie, The Women, out. We haven’t bothered to find out what The Women is actually about, but that’s only because it’s called The Women and we assumed it’s about ironing and curtains and periods and stuff. We’re sure it’s very good.

Maybe banging on about Sarah Palin is Meg Ryan’s way to prove that she’s still alive. You know, like Osama bin Laden sometimes does when he releases a new tape and discusses the weather or the last episode of Friends or Cat Deeley’s new haircut just to make sure that everyone knows it’s recent.

Maybe Meg Ryan only mentioned Sarah Palin during promotion for The Women so people wouldn’t think that it was made in the early 1990s. Because, let’s be honest, that’s realistically when it seems like a comedy drama about rich women slowly gaining their independence starring Meg Ryan, Annette Bening and Bette Midler should have been made, isn’t it.