Little noticed yesterday amid the endless stream of vitriolic attacks flowing from McCain's Mistresses of Destruction©, was the Palin-McCain interview with Sean Hannity.
We all know that Palin's epic fail with Couric was, according to Palin last week, due to her "annoyance" with Couric's "gotchya'" questions:
"Honestly, the Sarah Palin in those interviews is annoyed," the Alaska governor said. "No matter what you say, you will get clobbered on the answer. If you choose to pivot and go to another subject you think Americans want to share about, you get clobbered for that, too. But in those... interviews I felt a lot of things that she was missing in terms of an opportunity to ask what a vice presidential candidate stands for, what values are represented."
"I want to talk about things like that," she said. "So I have to apologize for being a bit annoyed, but is that also an indication of being outside the media ... elite. I wanted to talk to Americans without the filter."
Of course, Palin made those incoherent comments in an interview with -- you guessed it! -- Fox News.
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So yesterday, Palin sat down with her breast-feeding baby running mate, John McCain, and Sean Hannity for what promised to be a softball of an interview.
So one would think she could knock this one out of the park, right? A friendly interviewer, probably had the questions in advance, sitting next to McCain who could bail her out just in case she pulled one her patented "deer-in-the-headlights" moments (although ol' John can have the same problem from time to time)...
But, no. Her responses to Hannity were as incoherent as any of her answers to Couric. The woman is incapable of putting together a cogent thought.
Read on for hilarious snippets from yet another "fair-and-balanced" interview...
On Obama’s comments about drilling for oil from last night’s debate:
Palin: "I think last night, coming away from the debate, too, one of the things that I got out of it was, I think Barack Obama was drilling for votes. I don’t think that he’s too keen on drilling for those sources of energy that we need."
"Drilling for votes." Told you she got the questions in advance. But it gets better...
On Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers:
Palin: "Tells me again we need to question his judgment. And — not only those terrorist activities that Bill Ayers was involved in, but the questions need to be asked, I believe, when did Barack Obama know of these activities? We’ve heard so many confliction stories, and flip-flop answers about when he knew the guy, did he realize that he knocked off his political career in the guy’s living room?"
Okay, you can somewhat follow her train of thought there. But I did enjoy "confliction stories." (Perhaps that should be the title of her upcoming autobiography. Come on... You know some writer is penning one as we speak.)
But here is my favorite "Palinism":
On being McCain’s running mate:
Palin: "But, you for the years, I’ve been a big fan of his because of that independent that courses through your veins. And that’s made me admire him. And I knew it was confirmation, it was right on that I was to support him when early on in the presidential race, he had said something in the newspaper that was controversial; imagine that, about what was going on in the administration. It was independent, is what he had used, the tone of his comments.
And I had been asked about it up in Alaska, by the local press and I said, oh no. It was spot on. You know? We don’t need to keep going down that track, something that the administration was going on."
Okay, get out your Palin Pocket Translators® for that mess.
So what's her excuse in this case? That damn Sean Hannity and his "gotchya'" questions? That damn "media filter" of Fox News? That she was nervous because the always-angry McCain was in the room with her and she thought he was going to yell at her again?
What was it?
The Hannity interview simply confirms conclusions from the Couric interview:
This woman is a mental midget on a par with W. She is incapable of putting together a cogent thought unless it is written for her and she has a teleprompter or has memorized it. Period.
Pass this around to media mavens and pundits. Couric was no accident. The woman's a dolt.