"Mama Grizzly" Palin is Coming for Caroline and Tina Fey

A new interview with Sarah Palin just released has us wishing that we were whisked back to the fall where we knew we could count on Tina Fey and SNL to send it up the following Saturday. The interview features Palin given the opportunity to watch the clip of Tina playing her in the VP debate and firing off what some said was the best line of the election year: "Marriage is a sacred institution between two unwilling teenagers." It turns out that Palin had not seen the clip before the interview a few days ago—despite the clip being rerun ad nauseam on cable news and quoted in newspapers everywhere. Her response: "The Mama Grizzly rises up in me hearing things like that."

Palin also has a few unkind words for Katie Couric as well. Referring to how, in a David Letterman appearance, Couric questioned why no journalist further pushed Palin about her response to the notorious exchange about what newspapers the governor reads, Palin says, “Because Katie, you’re not the center of everybody’s universe.” Burn Notice! She also questions her handlers sending her back for more follow-ups with Couric when the interview was already not feeling so smooth. Palin says, "And my question to the campaign was, after it didn’t go well the first day, why were we gonna go back for more?...Going back for more was not a wise decision."

On why the Couric interview went so dismal, she says, "They spliced it together, did whatever they did." And she dismisses the idea that she doesn't read any newspapers. Specifically, she reads local Alaskan papers, "but also USA Today."

Palin also seems to think that Caroline Kennedy might not be getting grilled in her bid to become senator quite the way that she was. She tells the interviewer, “It’s going to be interesting to see how that plays out and I think that as we watch that we will perhaps be able to prove that there is a class issue here also that was such a factor in the scrutiny of my candidacy versus, say, the scrutiny of what her candidacy may be.”

The interview was recorded by conservative filmmaker Jon Ziegler for his upcoming documentary, How Obama Got Elected. When asked how her media treatment would have been if Obama had selected her for VP, she tells him, "They would have loved me."

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By Billy Parker in News on January 8, 2009 1:50 PM

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Fightycakes

I love how she says the campaign told her to do more Couric interviews. At the end of the day it was her campaign. If she didn't want to do more interviews she needed to say no.

That was the problem with her and McCain. People could tell that the campaign was running them. People didn't want another puppet for president. They wanted a leader.

Neil Epstein

Please go away.

Amanda Harletsch

PLUUUASE! she trying to pass as "feminist" when is the WORSE advocate for any progressive cause!?

Yet again being totally clueless and playing on the fan base mindless choices to "win" a pointless battle.

everyAframe

Remind me who she is again?

NannyState

A baboon...with lipstick.

texinyc

"how her media treatment would have been if Obama had selected her for VP"

WTF is this, the magic wishy time happy hour? Implying that as even a remote possibility is beyond ridiculous. Even in a hypothetical sense.

Not like Joe Biden wasn't lampooned himself, he just managed to take it in stride and focus on his JOB, which at the time was supporting his Presidential candidate.

It's hilarious that the election has been over for months and she's still crying about her mistreatment at the hands of the McCain campaign.

Give it a rest already.

r1b2

She forgets how brutally Ms. Clinton was treated. Double standard? Palin was cuddled compared to what Clinton got. Clinton paved the way for her, not Palin for Kennedy. What a dunce she is.

labman57

So let's see if we can follow the twisted logic of Goddess Sarah:

She was unfairly maligned because she was not born from a high social class family, but Obama was obviously elected because he was born to wealth and high social status. Hmm...

She was unfairly maligned because she is female...by Katie Couric, Tina Fey and other well-known misogynists. Okay...

Her family was maligned and put under the microscope by the media, yet it was she that chose to place her family in the spotlight by bringing them along during the entire campaign rather than letting them stay at home, go to school, and avoid media exposure.

She takes credit for the success of others, and blames others for her own failures.

Jeez. This woman has an ego at least ten times her IQ.

glennQNYC

You are looking at the 45th President of the United States.

r1b2

Your 15 minutes have long since passed.

I love the "I wanted to shrink government and let private business flourish" bit. Right, how did letting business self-regulate play out in 2008?

labman57

Sarah Palin wishes to take this opportunity to express her great appreciation for being so blessed to be thankful for this great nation of ours....that she appreciates....and is thankful for...which makes her so blessed....to be able to appreciate our great nation...of ours...of which she is a part...of.

She is also so appreciative of all those who appreciate her family, including Trapp, Trog, Peter-Piper, Truck, Barstool, and Wallow, as well as future babies Tinsel, Teflon, and Tallow.

labman57

Goddess Sarah has taken a page from the Bush/Cheney book on revisionist history. She's delusional to believe that her failures are anyone's but her own. Her ego is at least ten times her IQ.

drewmaster

Why won't this dumb woman go away?

bergermb

Palin says “What is the double standard here, why people would choose to believe lies and reporters especially not just taking one extra step to get to the facts and report the facts but instead continue to spread things that are not true? What is it that drives someone to believe the worst and perpetuate the worst in terms of gossip . . . lies?”

Governor Palin, do you mean in this indictment to include such statements as that your political opponent pals around with terrorists, when that is not true, i.e., a lie, and such insinuations as that he is not a real American, when that trades on, exploits and inflames Internet-drive absurd gossip about his background and so on? And moreover, is there not an additional layer of wicked mischief when the promoting and spreading of such statements and ideas leads to shouts at political events of “Kill him!”? Who encourages people to believe the worst and perpetuate the worst in terms of gossip and lies?