"How awesome is your family? How bad is Obama? How awful are people who criticize you?"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Friday, Dec 17, 2010 11:30 ET
War Room
"Good Morning America's" painfully friendly interview with Sarah Palin
By Alex Pareene



So today's "Good Morning America" had a lengthy packaged interview with Sarah Palin, the famous former governor of Alaska and book author. Poor Robin Roberts had to trek all the way to Wasilla in mid-December to sit in a room at what appears to be the Great Northern Hotel and listen to free-associative demagoguery in a singsongy tone. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

But I quickly lost my sympathy for the reporter once the interview began. An early question was about how much John Boehner cries, for some reason.

The interview was basically split into a couple of distinct sections: How awesome is your family, how bad is Barack Obama, how awful are people who criticize you, and how awesome is America?

In the awesomeness of America/badness of Barack Obama section, Palin basically just repeated the thesis of her most recent book. She loves America, but she is worried about keeping it awesome. She says (and I am distilling about 400 stalling words down to a succinct statement here) "there are things we can do as individuals to allow America to remain exceptional." Why are hardcore American exceptionalists so insecure about American exceptionalism? America doesn't need anyone's permission to remain exceptional! (Also I feel like in the past American exceptionalists didn't specifically use the word "exceptional" so much.)

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/sarah_palin/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/12/17/sarah_palin_gma

[LuvNewcastle]

1. Part of America is ready for Sarah.

They are probably also ready for Brett Favre. Sarah as President, Favre as Vice-President -- the beauty queen and the captain of the football team. It would be like Caligula making his horse a Senator.

[blue neen]

2. I'm sorry, but she looks like a Conehead in that picture.

There are so many more important things to criticize her on...but, damn, I just had to say it.

Furthermore, Palin is so far removed from reality that she COULD be from Remulak!

[emulatorloo]

4. The other day Palin said her critics hate her because they can't get Hard-Ons

"limp" "impotent"

I agree it is bad to attack someone for their looks. I do think at least some of her support comes from her presentation of her looks though. Sounds like she doesn't like it that her critics are more concerned with her policies.

[applegrove]

3. RUN! Please pretty please! RUN in 2012. LOL!

[emulatorloo]

5. Media seems ready to do another Teabag White-wash job on her.

Remember how they pretended that the teabaggers were mainstream?