I know. I have said elsewhere that I’m tired of Sarah Palin. And I am. However, that does not stop me from being fascinated with the fascination for Sarah. Now with her book tour in full swing, and the facebooker1 herself reportedly being in my state for Thanksgiving I couldn’t help being absolutely stunned by her recent Bill O’Reilly interview. Thanks to TheYoungTurks for bringing it to my attention.
Here is my transcription of one question from O’Reilly and Palin’s answer:
Bill O’Reilly: Let me be very bold and fresh again. Do you believe that you are smart enough, incisive enough, intellectual enough to handle the most powerful job in the world?
Sarah Palin: I believe that I am because I have common sense and I have, I believe, the values that are reflective of so many other American values, and I believe that what Americans are seeking is not the elitism, the um, the, kind of a spineless, a spinelessness that perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite ivy league education and a fat resume that is based on anything but hard work and private sector free enterprise principles. Americans are… could be seeking something like that in positive change in their leadership. I’m not saying that it has to be me.
If that made sense to you, you are smarter than you look. Don’t you just hate that bold and fresh gotcha journalism that Bill O’ Reilly uses. If you don’t believe me and want to see it for yourself? Here is the episode from TheYoungTurks:
Priceless!
1 I cannot really call her a blogger, since she doesn’t blog. I guess I could call her author, but that would imply that she had written at least one book. I’m not even sure she writes her facebook postings herself.
