Katie Couric reflects on her now famous interviews with Sarah Palin.

What? You mean Palin wasn't set up?  Those weren't "gotcha questions?

Is Couric saying that she was just a journalist doing her job, and that the only reason the interview destroyed Palin's political credibility is because she was a an ignorant, dumbass?

Why yes, I think she is.

For those few people who have yet to see the movie Game Change, please allow me.

GC from JustMe222 on Vimeo.

I waited a while to see if this would be pulled off of Vimeo, as HBO is famous for jealously guarding its intellectual property, but so far it has managed to stay up.

By the way I also sent this link to Mercede and her mom because they had been trying to see it as well but currently do not have access to HBO.

I am still waiting to hear what they thought of the movie.

Did Julianne Moore do an amazing job of playing Sarah Palin in the movie Game Change? You be the judge.

I swear I still get the hairs standing up on the back of my neck watching Moore channel Palin.

Spooky.

Steve Schmidt: “I think the notion of Sarah Palin being President of the United States is something that frightens me, frankly."

An absolutely MUST SEE discussion with Steve Schmidt about movie Game Change on Morning Joe today. (Make sure to watch until the end.)

(H/T to Mediaite.)

Director of "Game Change" had McCain staff members act out Sarah Palin's "mini-meltdowns" for him.

"I don't know where they get that catatonic, eyes at half mast part?"

Courtesy of New York Magazine:

 Sarah Palin denies that she became catatonic during campaign prep sessions for her infamous 2008 interview with Katie Couric and then again before a debate with Senator Joe Biden. But at a premiere party last evening at the Four Seasons for his new HBO film Game Change, director Jay Roach told Daily Intel that he went beyond the John Heilemann/Mark Halperin book on which the movie is based to source this key scene. "We checked with a lot of people who were in the room, and we were like, 'Really? She just shut down? I know you're saying mini-meltdown, or shut down, but people throw the phrase around. What does it mean?'" 

Roach explained the question was motivated by more than just fact-checking — he needed to know how to direct Julianne Moore to perform those scenes. "So they said, 'I'll act it out for you,'" Roach said. "And they would sit, stare at the floor, not respond, you know, eyes at half-mast. And I was so shocked."

I'm sorry but reading this actually set me off on a spasm of giggles for almost an entire minute.

I'm better now.

Just the idea of these political operatives attempting to recreate the catatonic state that Palin slipped into after she found herself overwhelmed by the job that she could not agree to fast enough, is truly funny in kind of a sad way.

Here she thought she was chosen by God, but when she realized how completely out of her depth she was all she could do was shut down and refuse to play anymore. Bailey describes some of these same mood swings in HIS book.

I can hear the dialogue between the staffers and Roach now.

"No she was more glassy eyed, less drool."

"Actually she has that one eye that looks off to the side but the other simply rolled up into her head."

"Imagine a zombie that suddenly realizes he's lost his cars keys."

"That's it! Perfect!"

You simply can't make this stuff up folks.

Confirmation of Vanity Fair's revelations concerning "Spanx-gate."

I just received this article from November 3, 2008 in an e-mail from one of my frequent visitors.

True Story. A friend of mine just returned from a weekend in Pittsburgh where she apparently checked into the same Marriott hotel room where Sarah Palin had just checked out. Housekeeping had not yet cleaned the room and so aside from an unmade bed, an empty can of Coke and a towel strewn bathroom, my friend made a surprising discovery – a discarded pair of black Spanx in the garbage.

“Seriously…you found Sarah’s Spanx in the trash?” I asked my friend. “Did you take them? You could’ve auctioned them on Ebay! What size was she?”

My friend – who does not want to be outted on Spanxgate – has been kicking herself that she didn’t snag the slimming control top and auction it online. She realizes she could have given the money to the Obama campaign or better yet, to charities that support women who can’t afford Spanx. No doubt, Sarah’s undergarments cold have fetched some serious cash from everyone from an apolitical panty fetishist to a rabid Right Winger. And the media would have gone berserk.

You can imagine the tawdry headlines: “Sarah Palin Trashes Taxpayer Paid Spanx in Pittsburgh Hotel Room” or the inevitable “Sarah Gets Spanked in Pittsburgh!”

Aha!  Well if we use the same method that the pro-Palin people did to discredit the Vanity Fair piece (you know pointing out one inaccuracy to invalidate the entire article) to prove its accuracy, then I guess the article linked above PROVES that Michael Gross was completely accurate in ALL of his reporting.

Of course it does no such thing, and it would be ridiculous to suggest that it did.

Personally I know it is accurate because it almost exactly reflects the same things that I have been hearing for the last two years.  And regardless of what so called "liberals" like Shushanna Walshe (Who seems to spend as much time pimping her own book as trashing the Vanity Fair piece on Twitter) say about the accuracy of the reporting, I believe that Mr. Gross did exactly what the rest of the MSM should have been doing all along, and that is exposing the fact that virtually EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT SARAH PALIN IS A LIE.

I want you to pay very close attention to how the people behind Sarah Palin managed to get media types loosely identified as liberals (who are worried about having THEIR careers damaged by an article that demonstrates that the depth of their research was only ankle deep), to come out and attack this Vanity Fair article. Because boys and girls that is EXACTLY the same tactic that will be used to discredit the books that are right now being written by authors Geoffrey Dunn and Joe McGinniss.

This type of discrediting maneuver will be the new template, and you will see it used time and time again. The new test of integrity and guts will be to see who stands with these brave journalists and authors and who throws them under the bus.

(H/T to herkimer.)

Mercede has a brand new post up today and all I have to say is WOW!

Sadie attempts to explain EXACTLY what happened back during the campaign with her computer and what she now suspects may have taken place.

There are definitely things in her post that even I did not know, and I found it quite fascinating.

Great job Sadie!