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"Mama Grizzly" Palin is Coming for Caroline and Tina Fey
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Billy Parker
Published Jan 8, 2009
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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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