Can anybody really watch this woman and NOT think she is a complete moron? Updated!

Unbelievably Palin does not even get 23 seconds into this interview before telling her first lie.  It has yet to get below zero in either Anchorage or Wasilla.  Pathological liars lie about everything!

Now I am a guy, with all of the accoutrement's and bison-like body hair to prove it, but even I was offended by Sarah Palin's accusation that feminists of the 60' and 70's focused on seeing themselves as "victims" and that they send a message to young women that "society and men will hold them back and hold them down."

Now just let that roll around in your brain for a moment. 

Is it possible that Palin has NO idea what it was like for women before the Women's Rights Movement started on the long difficult journey toward equal rights?  Is it possible that this moron actually believes that things have always been as they are now, and that these pioneers are simply whiners?

Sarah Palin referring to herself as a "common sense, conservative, Constitutional  feminist" (Where is "feminism" in the Constitution?) is a slap in the face to the women, like my own mother, who worked demeaning jobs, sometimes two at a time, to raise their children in a world where their contribution was worth almost half the dollar amount that a man, doing essentially the same job, was worth to their exclusively male bosses. 

If those brave women had not stood up for themselves and demanded equal pay and equal opportunity Sarah Palin would not even exist.

Think about it.  If far more competent and capable women had not demonstrated that females could enter politics and do as well in that arena as their male counterparts, Caribou Barbie would not have been able to pageant walk and wink her way onto the national stage. 

I bet Gloria Steinem is kicking herself right now for opening the door to this idiot.

At the 3:30 mark Palin essentially allows everybody to see how little she understands or respects the feminist movement by characterizing the conservative women who emerged victorious during this last election cycle as "strong, powerful, smart, and adorable."  "Adorable?" 

Right now Susan B. Anthony is beating her head against the top of her casket in frustration.  What a complete joke.

Later Palin refers to the hard work of our "foremothers." But since she seemed to disrespect the "foremothers" of the sixties and seventies who could she be referring to?

Maybe we could just ask her.

"Can you name your favorite foremother Ms. Palin"

"All of them."

Of course, what was I thinking?

Is it too early to start drinking?  I mean it IS Thanksgiving.

Never mind I can get through this, only two thirds of the way left to go.

Sister Sarah also seems to have been laboring under the belief that Bristol was "too busy and too accomplished, as a seventeen year old daughter" to have sex? (5:35 in the video).  What in the hell does THAT mean?

Not to be too mean on Thanksgiving, but from what I can tell, having sex and getting pregnant, ARE Bristol's biggest accomplishment.  Let's face it, without having made that decision would she be getting paid for speaking engagements, or been given a spot on DWTS? 

Uh, nope!

Instead of giving thanks to God for her success on DWTS Bristol should be thanking Levi's raging hormones and condom-less penis. Now wouldn't THAT be an interesting prayer for Sarah to overhear?

Next up in the interview Sarah gives, I kid you not, parenting advice.

(My prediction for Sarah Palin's next book "How to raise an Oxycontin addicted, vodka guzzling, baby factory, in a Jim Jones style compound, for only 12 million a year."  Guaranteed to be a bestseller!)

At the 10:46 mark the Grizzled Mama rises up, manicured claws at the ready, to address poor little Willow's attempt to protect her family from the scurrilous attacks made by a young man on his own Facebook page, when he dared to write "Sarah Palin's Alaska is failing so hard right now."

Her description is that he was "blogging very, very negative things about the family?"  Which raises the question, is Sister Sarah unable to differentiate between criticism of her family and criticism of a television show?

The facts are, for those of us who recognize reality when we see it, that Willow went to this kids Facebook page, where he was expressing his opinion about a reality show to HIS friends, and started bad mouthing him in front of his friends and family. How is THAT defending your family against an attack?

I believe that Willow saw it as an attack because these children have been raised to believe that when anybody offers an opinion, even a fairly innocuous one, about them, or their family, they are essentially under attack.

For most people hearing somebody make a factual statement about you, or having them disagree with your point of view about something,  is no cause for alarm. But for the Palins it is time to fire up the ghostwriters, aim your attorney in their direction, and then top it off by going after their sexuality.

Now at the 12:30 mark Palin makes the comment, referring to Willow using inappropriate language in her attack on Facebook, that SHE needs to "guard my conversation more around my kids." Is she admitting that Willow learned to say "fuck," "shit," and call people a "faggot" from HER?

(From what I have heard about the language in that house I certainly would not doubt that, but I can't believe she would admit it on Fox News in front of her fans.)

Then immediately after saying how wrong it was for Willow to use that type of language Palin turns right around and brags about her kid being tough enough to take on the people "calling her little brother bad names and doing all that they can to discredit the family."

I have looked through the transcript of the Facebook back and forth several times and I cannot see where ANYBODY said anything at all about Trig .  (You can check for yourself here) So essentially Sarah lied about that fact just to gin up even more sympathy for her poor victimized family. That is truly pathological.

When Sarah asks out loud why they can't sue when stories about them show up in tabloids, the answer is because the stories about her family are usually true. And if they aren't completely true there is enough truth in them that they do not want to focus any more media attention in that direction.

Okay now around the 14:08 mark this interview dips into some truly bizarre territory when Queen Esther suggests that the reason why the world seems unjust toward their family is because "man has fallen."

"Man has fallen?" The reason Palin offers to Willow to explain why people call her family out on their lies and obfuscation is because of "Original Sin?"  In other words ALL of the Palin's difficulties are traced back to when that bitch Eve convinced Adam to take a bite out of an apple? "Holy misunderstanding scripture Batman!"

Gee and here we are wondering why Willow pounds down Vodka like a Russian sailor on shore leave?

If this clip does nothing else, it offers a bizarre look inside of a very troubled mind. One that sees demonic forces and Satan himself as barriers standing in the way of her aspirations.  And where the struggles of women, because they might be liberal, are of no value since all they really had to do was to stop seeing themselves as victims. In short it is the mind of a person with no understanding of why or how things are the way they are.  Only that when things go in her favor it is God's will, and when they don't evil is to blame.

It is an uneducated child's simple view of the world, not that of an accomplished and worldly adult woman.

I am always puzzled, after sitting through one of these insane interviews, how anybody with a functioning intellect could listen to her speak and still believe she has anything of substance to offer.

She is nothing more than a circus act.  There is no rabbit in the hat. The Alligator Man has a simple skin condition.  And the clowns are not really smiling.

It is all for show.  That is why the circus folk refer to their customers as "rubes."

Update:  Here is the transcript for those who cannot manage to listen to the entire interview.