"My problem is I DO have that fire in my belly." Oh crap, she is running!

Snowdrift Snooki has been doing her version of a media blitz, which entails appearing on as many Fox News shows as possible, whilst tweeting attacks on the Obama administration.

As I have noted earlier her interviews on Fox have been VERY aggressive and just chock full of hypocrisy.

However the Grizzled Mama's appearance on Greta yesterday was truly histrionic and combative.  Here see for yourself.



Number one Palin looks incredibly underweight, making her head seem enormous and her apparently shower curtain draped frame appear tiny and seriously malnourished.  Her dilated pupils and facial tics are reminiscent of a meth addict being interviewed by the police. 

My very first response was that she looks very unhealthy and seems to be deriving her manic energy from some source other than food.

Palin comes right out of the chute attacking the media at the 30 second mark, blaming them for making public the infighting within the Republican party, and the potential Presidential candidates.

Greta attempts to defend the occupation, of which she was once a member before going to Fox, and reminds Palin that it is the media's job to challenge the candidates on policy. This allows Sister Sarah to segue into the topic of personal attacks, during which she feels empowered to instruct the media on their appropriate job, which is not engaging in "personal gotchas" but rather talking about the candidates record.

When Greta asks Palin WHY anybody would even want to run for President with so much media scrutiny, Palin says she asks herself that "whenever I see one of my kids on the cover of a tabloid." (You mean like this one Sarah? "Photos courtesy of the Palin family.")

However then Palin quickly bares her teeth, and declares that "you have to believe the mission is that important. That you do have to make sacrifices in order to help mankind." (WTF? If mankind is so desperate that it needs Palin's help we are well and truly fucked.)

After that exchange Snooki decides to quote Thomas Paine to make her point, because she still does not realize that he was the very antithesis of her anti-intellectualism and religious points of view.

Then Palin switches gears at the 3:00 mark defending the media for going after Gingrich when he called the Ryan plan "Republican social engineering" This allows her to hit her stride by attacking the Obama health care plan while pimping Ryan's plan to do away with Medicare. (Somebody has not been paying attention to recent town halls now have they?)

At around the 4:33 mark Palin becomes patronizing toward Gingrich by saying "Bless his heart, and every other 'good ole boy's' heart that are playing that political game there in the beltway. They don't really know any more than the rest of us. Greta it was Newt Gingrich who told me in January of this year, Sarah Palin needs to slow down and think through what it is that she has to say." After that statement Palin claims that ALL of the candidates are on a "level playing field" which essentially I took to mean she believes they are ALL screw ups and therefore SHE does not have to concern herself with gaffes or misstated facts either.

After that exchange Greta seems to tailor her next question around Palin's own personal issues saying "every one you went to high school with, who never liked you, comes out as an anonymous source." (Hmm somebody has been reading Dunn's book.) Then, as she sees the Grizzled Mama's face becoming increasingly angry, she quickly backs off saying, "I'm not talking about you or anybody else, " when in fact Palin was exactly who she was talking about.

At the 5:45 mark Palin says that voters themselves need to "do their own homework and research a candidates record.  See if they have walked the walk, and not just talked the talk in their own personal and professional life." Finally!  Sister Sarah and I agree on something! (By the way let me welcome those of you who came here to "do their own homework and research" Sarah Palin. There are even more resources available to the left of this page in my blogroll. Just look under "Sarah Palin's least favorite blogs." Go ahead, read and learn! Remember, Sarah Palin told you to!)

(BTW what is it with Palin and the abuse of pickles? Constantly talking about "striking dills" (6:23) just seems especially cruel and heartless language to use on a harmless vinegar soaked cucumber that has never said one harsh word against her. I for one am tired of it!)

Okay now for this next portion you need to be sitting down. Are you sitting? Okay now grasp your jaw with both hands to hold it in place.  Ready?  Okay, here we go. (Starts at 15:03.)

"The toughest thing that I've had to do in my two decades of politicking has been the fundraising."

You heard her folks, Granny Grifter HATES fundraising!  Still got a hold of those jaws?  Good because she is not finished yet.

"I don't like asking other people for money." No I am not lying! She TOTALLY said that with a straight face. Watch it for yourself! And she is STILL not finished!

"It's very unpleasant, it's not a NATURAL thing to do for somebody like me to ask people to give me money so that I can get out there and fight for THEIR rights. But it is a necessary evil I suppose."

Now see THIS is why I am completely unconcerned about the possibility of the Rapture happening tomorrow.  If mean if there were a God WHY did a bolt of lightning not fry her where she stood? Go ahead Bible scholars, answer me that!

SHE does not "like asking people for money?" 

"It is a not a natural thing for somebody like me?' 

Who does she thing she is fooling? If this woman could figure out some way to make it marketable, she would have an E-Bay account set up selling little baggies of her own poop to crazed Palin-bots on the internet. 

However with the next question the Queen of the Grifters goes from totally full of crap, to dead serious in a heartbeat.

Greta asks if she has the "fire in the belly" to run for office. Her answer is hair raising.

"My problem is I DO have that fire in my belly. I am so adamantly supportive of the good traditional things about America, and our free enterprise system, and I want to make sure that America is put back on the right track,  and we only do that by defeating Obama in 2012. I have that fire in my belly." Then she goes on to lie about her family having some say in her decision to run, which we know is complete bullshit since when she was tapped as VP she made Steve Schmidt tell her family she was running.

Trust me she could not care LESS about their opinion on the matter. In other words, screw them, she's running.

"Yeah the fire in the belly, it's there that..that's kind of my problem! It's such a roaring fire in my belly to preserve and restore what is good about America that I struggle with THAT every single day." Look out GOP!  Here she comes!

For Palin book fans this next quote is gold, as Klondike Kardashian refers to the movies being made and the books coming out and that "hoarded e-mails from a disloyal former staff member have been compiled by a hateful blogger and those are going to be released!" (That's you Jeanne and Frank!)

At this point, around the 10:52 mark, Greta seems to finally understand that Palin is actually planning to run and essentially attempts to warn her off by telling her that the media WILL be going after her.

Palin than demands that Greta lead her her colleagues to ONLY go after candidates on their records and not on personal issues, at whihc point Greta has had enough, and responds with "Then don't take the bait! You know what? Then the candidates should not take the bait!"

This quickly devolves into an actual argument between Palin and her "go-to-Fox-interviewer" which is frankly amazing to me. Palin quickly throws up attacks on her family as a defense, but Greta is not having any of it.

"Anybodies got any dirt though, you know really bad things in the past, you know voter's need to know that, its fair." (Watch Palin's face and the hard swallow that happens during Greta's response starting at the 12:30 mark. She just realized that she cannot count on Greta to serve her softballs once she declarers her candidacy. Uh oh!)

Greta ends with "You have to have that fire in your belly to take it." Which is a DIRECT shot at Palin's thin skin and constant need to respond to bad publicity.

Palin realizing she has lost Greta, sort of agrees with her, but then attempts to make the argument that ONLY the conservative candidates get this type of scrutiny, once again resurrecting Obama's "associations" as evidence of the media playing favorites.

But Greta, refuses to allow Palin to go there, and instead suggests that it is a gender biased thing and brings up the kind of vicious attacks suffered by NANCY PELOSI and HILLARY CLINTON as examples of how female candidates suffer much harsher scrutiny from the media. (For fun, grab a bucket of popcorn and just replay Palin's expression over and over on a loop while Greta makes this point. There is SO much on display in that face as the Grizzled Mama fights to retain her composure, that it is amazing that her wig does not blow right off the top of her head.)

"Did that bitch just defend Pelosi?"

I was blown away by this interview, in that I believe it was the first time that Van Susteren has EVER treated an interview with Palin as anything other than two girlfriends kibitzing about the weather. AND it is clearly the first time that Palin seems to realize that once she announces her candidacy that her friends at Fox News might suddenly turn into ACTUAL journalists.

I don't think that idea made her very happy.

But even with THAT frightening realization, I think it is pretty clear the lunatic is running. I believe having Trump and Huckabee pull out was just too much temptation for her NOT to run.

Holy crap! This is going to be a blood bath!