Sarah Palin' interview on Hannity last night. Is there a more WTF term than WTF?

So Hannity starts off the interview by showing an especially crazy portion of Palin's Iowa speech. (Yeah try to find a non-crazy part.)

I don't know how he THOUGHT she might react to seeing it again, but it clearly pissed her off.

He then brings up the fact that Palin was asked about running for President in 2016, and asks for her response to that question.

"I was asked by a pesky reporter while I was promoting my Sportsman Channel show 'Amazing America with Sarah Palin.'  I was if I were to be interested in at all in running for office, maybe presidency, and it's certainly not newsworthy for me to have answered 'Oh yeah I'm interested, yeah. Next question?' I think that anyone who has been blessed with an opportunity to serve the American public in different capacities, and within their own state, to not be interested would be..not..uh...standing up to what's right, and doing what's right."

Now if you think I simply made all of that up to make it appear that the woman was either drunk or batshit crazy, I assure that it is word salad for word salad.

For reasons that I can't quite fathom Hannity actually continues the interview and asks her more pointedly if she is thinking about running for the presidency. Such a slow learner.

"I along with others on a deep bench are no doubt thinking about it but it’s much too early to say whether I, and others I’m sure would answer the same way, they, would be throwing their hat in the ring.” 

In other words, "I am fucking warning you Sean to drop it!"

But Hannity refuses to listen and rephrases the question again. (Just watch Palin's face during this. Can you see the smoke coming out of her ears?)

In response to the question Palin launches into what can only be described as a diatribe that includes using her family and God as an excuse for her reticence to answer the question, and a stream of consciousnesses attack on government, and even a shot at Republicans.

At this point I don't know it Hannity is just too thick to recognize that Palin is losing her shit, or if he is passively aggressively driving her over the brink. But he follows up with a question about the criticism she received about the Iowa speech, including from the Right, and asks her if the reason was a failed teleprompter. (Hang on going to need more popcorn for this answer.)

"You know I don't read the praise, and I don't read the criticism (Bullshit!) because I know how you guys, or how the media in general works. (At this point Hannity tries to interject that he is not part of that group, but Palin isn't listening.) I'm used to teleprompters not working, remember at the GOP acceptance speech back in '08 the teleprompter broke there too, it didn't work and I kept on going so, no, I don't know I received a standing ovation throughout and at the end of the speech."

(Seriously?)

"So I don't know I think a lot of this is a herd mentality of some reporters would..uh..uh..that kind of exacerbates some of the criticism. But I don't know what anybody really would, when you talk about the meat, the content, of the speech, would criticize when I talk about courage, and integrity, and a track record of any candidate that is needed in order to, be able to, sincerely serve the people of America who deserve real hope and real change and not more of same, not more of status quo, of the old energy if you will. But we need new energy, new ideas, and as I say very, very important that we have a track record proving what works. (At this point Hannity is trying to get control of the interview back, but to no avail.) But what I also made a point of in that speech Sean, and this is important, is knowing what the media id going to do throughout 2016. And, my prediction, Hillary will be running and she will be..the..you know...the knighted candidate on the Left, and with the media. Knowing what the media is going to do, it's going to take more than a village to beat Hillary. There needs to be unity, understanding that we have that..conservatives have that strike against us right off the bat, that being the media. Even there on Fox, you know kind of a quasi or assumed conservative outlet, and we have all day listen to the tease of Bill O'Reilly, he's talking about the guests on his show tonight, or the commentary on his show, and that would be oh all these...uh...GOP contenders thinking about running for president, like Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, and he names them off, he says 'Oh what a reality show that would be. Yuck yuck.' Well the Left doesn't do that okay they..they..they take this serious. Because this is war, and hopefully the media, even the quasi Right side of the media, won't be looking at us as some kind of reality show. A joke. Because maybe they have theirs (Hannity tries again to gain control, and fails.)so they're taken care of, they're fine. No the people of America deserve the best, and competition through a GOP primary, whether a Bill O'Reilly or somebody else assumes it's a reality show or not, they deserve that competition to surface the competitor who can take on Hillary, or whomever it may be, and win for this country."

Sooooo, DID the teleprompter go out?

Wait, did she just attack Bill O'Reilly, the biggest star on Fox News? Damn, she is way off her meds!

Essentially this interview simply sounds like a part deux of her crazy speech in Iowa. It's like she woke up, felt she had more batshit that needed to be let out, and called up Fox News to provide a forum.

Incredibly Hannity continues to try and get Palin to say if she is running, and asks her if she were what would be the things she would run on and offers her a list of choices.

Her response is to say "Check, check, check, those absolutely."  And then follows up with a string of conservative talking points spewed out in a hyperactive rat-a-tat-tat of verbal shrapnel.

Hannity takes one last stab at getting Palin to give odds on whether she is running but she refuses to take the bait, and Hannity finally has to admit defeat.

The take away from all of this, besides a massive migraine, is that Palin was bullshitting about a run in 2016, which of course everybody with a handful of brains cells to rub together already knew, and that she is essentially coming apart at the seams.

I predict that her next SarahPAC filings will be the lowest ones yet.

She is finished. Anything that happens to her from this point on is almost beside the point.