Greta Van "Sucks to still be interviewing Palin" asks the Grizzled Mama to talk for sixteen and a half minutes to meet her contractual obligations to Fox.

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We will ultimately have to check with "Ripley's Believe It or Not," but I do believe that Palin just set a new land speed record for taking something that was not about her at all (The Herman Cain allegations), and switching the focus to make HER the victim.

In much of the interview Palin seems lethargic and uninterested, only really hitting those screechy high notes when she can bring the focus back to herself, as she does at the 3:30 mark when she declares that SHE has "never had an affair in my life." (Somewhere Brad Hanson and Glen Rice just did a spit take.)

Susteren then goes on to ask Palin questions as if she were not simply a side show freak, but instead a real political pundit, and Palin uses the opportunity to damn Romney with faint praise, and claim that "the cream of the crop has not risen yet in this very fluid primary process." (That last statement caused yet another eruption of glee from the Palin-bots in anticipation that she was hinting that SHE was the cream that had not yet risen. You can go ahead and write your own jokes about that.)

However it was not until the very end of the interview that the Palin nastiness was allowed to burst forth from its shackles after Greta asked Palin about the Sandusky Penn State scandal.



Palin responded by referring to Sandusky as a "perverted former assistant coach" and his actions as "sinfulness" before suggesting that they "hang him from the highest tree" and offering to "bring the rope."

Greta quickly dives in to do damage control, by trying to get Palin to walk back the remark, but Palin AGAIN makes the coment, only tempering it this time by saying "IF he is guilty of what has been alleged."

Now while I assume MOST of us share Palin's anger toward Sandusky for these alleged crimes, I would also assume that we would like to see him prosecuted by the justice system, and if found guilty incarcerated for as long as the law would allow. I seriously doubt that MOST Americans would prefer to simply form a lynch mob and string Sandusky up like some cattle rustler in the old west.

To my mind Palin's response to this possible criminal behavior, sounds less like a protective mother and more like an ex-victim of a similar experience. The way she uses sexualized language to attack and emasculate every male who dares to cross her, and her extreme viciousness in this particular case, seems to reveal a certain pathology which I believe might be at the heart of Palin's barely contained anger toward men, and her sexually manipulative nature.

Any thoughts?