Video: Sarah Palin Debuts on Fox, Denies Ignorance

Sarah Palin in the late '80s, during her time as an Anchorage sportscaster

A day after news broke that third-place Miss Alaska contestant and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin had signed a multi-year contract to provide political commentary on Fox News, the wolf hunter from Wasilla received a warm welcome from loofah-lover Bill O'Reilly. As a Democratic Party spokesperson quipped, "Not since Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag has there been a couple so well suited for each other." Burn (provided you know who those two are). Of course, Palin was ready to hit back hard at those "pinhead" critics, as O'Reilly calls them:

They don’t like the message. They don’t like the commonsense conservative solution that I think that I represent and I articulate. They don’t like to hear it... I'm grinning today, and I'm so appreciative of the opportunity to get to work with you and the team members here at Fox News to provide the fair and the balanced reporting and analysis voters in this country deserve.

We certainly are getting what we deserve. Of course, three recent polls cited by Good Morning America found that more Americans disapprove of Palin than approve of her, and 67% percent say she's not qualified to be president. Does that mean the elitists are in the majority, and if so, are they still elite? Palin also addressed recent revelations that during the campaign she didn't know why there was a North and South Korea, and didn't know who her son would be fighting in Iraq. Palin dismissed the reportage, cited in a new book called Game Change: "It's a buncha BS... The rest of America doesn't care about that crap... They need to read my book."

Palin will be a periodic guest on Fox News and will also be hosting "a new series of inspirational stories about Americans who overcome adversity." This is all good news for Palin fanatics in the tri-state area, because she'll presumably be turning up at Fox News's Manhattan headquarters, where last night one lonely fan waited outside at 1211 Sixth Avenue in hopes of catching a glimpse of Palin. "She is all about the middle class," Christopher Kiefer told DNA Info. "If anyone is going to fight for us, it is her." But when informed that the object of his adoration had slipped out a side entrance without signing an autograph, Kiefter lamented, "This sucks. Unbelievable."

Below, video of her appearance on Fox, plus bonus footage of Palin in action as a TV sportscaster in the '80s:

Part One:

Part Two:

Now, instead of punching a wall and breaking your hand, laugh it off with this classic '80s footage of Palin when she worked as a sportscaster:

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By John Del Signore in News on January 13, 2010 11:30 AM

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JacqueMehoff

I'm going to have to rely on the fairer sex to prevent her from getting into any political office. (extend fingernails, meeoww)

jchez

Why does the fact that right wingers have an outlet for their opiniosn baother liberals so much? Whenever a conservative complains about something on TV, liberals respond by saying to switch the channel or turn off the TV.

Why don't you guys do the same? Why the hate, the ad-hominen attacks? If you guys have the embodiment of your ideas as president, why don't you concentrate of writing about what a great job he's doing?

In the end I think that Orwell was right; you guys need your 2 minute hate fest to make it through the rest of the day.

Sommelier

Any bets on how long before he gets bored and quits this job, too?

Sommelier

Oh... right. Damned Liberals, again, huh? THAT'S what's wrong with America... those Damned Liberals!

"Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. What did Conservatives do? They opposed them on every one of those things...every one! So when you try to hurl that label at my feet, 'Liberal,' as if it were something to be ashamed of, something dirty, something to run away from, it won't work, Senator, because I will pick up that label and I will wear it as a badge of honor." -- Matt Santos, The West Wing

Name just one thing that you windbags have for America done except act like a bunch of greedy, petulant little spoiled boys. Go ahead... just one.

hotstepper

oh right, because you have to be uber-liberal to despise the deception the dumbing down of political discourse in this country, which limbaugh, palin, beck & co. are directly responsible for and profit from.

NannyState

Bill O'Reilly just needs to suck out her brains, replace with his sperm, shake vigorously and viola! Sarah Beck.

Sommelier

"Denies Ignorance..." So, she's to dumb to realize how stupid she really is?

What's with this "she's hot" crap? Bunch of hicks who grew up in trailer parks and moved to NYC, but still kept your Kraft Macaroni & Chesse taste, huh? Palin looks like a yahoo, walks & talks like a yahoo, and only looks hot to fellow yahoos.

MLHencken

JDS, you left out the best moniker of all: "formerly unemployed lady"

justthinkin

It's coming for all of us. Beware indeed.

Homer2323

Obama Fav 48%

Palin Fav 47%

Nov 2 is coming for you liberals. Beware.

HypocraticOath

And yet a lot of people have more faith in Obama than in this idiot. Go fuck yourself pal.

justthinkin

Yeah, she's smokin'...moose turds by the sound of it.

JenChungsNewBra

CNN have all the fat chicks and FOX have all the blondes

wingedearth

Republicans have the hot chicks.

rasputinsghost

hahahahah

JenChungsNewBra

"more Americans disapprove of Palin than approve of her" But she's hot and that's what matters the most. Fox needs more (hotties)brunettes, and Sarah will do it.

babyhitler

wait. Conan Obrien is going to get axed and we get Sarah Palin on the airwaves? thank god I don't watch broadcast television anymore. I don't think my eyes and ears could take it.

longacre

Actually, Conan and Palin will most likely be News Corp. co-workers sometime soon.

franktrades

I'm sure her commentaries, however banal, will be no less slanted to the right than most of that produced by the rest (98%) of the media outlet claptrap is slanted to the left.

Do you suppose she still has ignorance consistent with say, an undergraduate level of understanding of the world?