Sarah Palin talks, and lies, to the local press.

Q. There's been an enormous amount of information about you that Alaskans have been exposed to the past couple of months -- and lots of it very critical. What are Alaskans supposed to make of all this?

A. Regarding information regarding my record, that is now out there, much of it that was based on misinformation was a very, very frustrating thing to have to go through when the record was never corrected. And we would try to correct the record and too many in the media chose not to make those corrections.

(Translation: "It is very frustrating that I cannot tell a lie to the national media and have them accept it, instead of comparing it to my past statements or independent facts, and then reporting the truth! Just more of that GOTCHA journalism that I keep complaining about!")

Q. What misinformation are you talking about?

A. Some of the goofy things like who was Trig's mom. Well, I'm Trig's mom (raises her hand) and do you want to see my medical records to prove that?

("Do you want to see my medical records to prove that?" YES! YES! YES!! Is she actually offering to show them to us? Because if she is I want the Daily News to immediately follow up on that! And I don't mean tomorrow, I mean now!)

Q. One of the things that came up during the campaign is that you charge the state per diem for time spent here in Wasilla. Is that something you are going to continue to do?

A. We've always followed the law and fully disclosed all that. The choice there in many months of the Juneau mansion being re-plumbed and all the improvements being made in the infrastructure of the Juneau house, where we weren't going to be there anyway. Knowing that in the end it would have cost the state more money to do what other governors had done and that is either charge the state for hotel rooms. (Right about here is where my head really starts to hurt!) Or the state rents you an apartment like they did for Governor Murkowski. We said no, we just won't sell our house, knowing that we're going to spend quite a bit of time here, especially those months where the remodels were taking place in the governor's mansion. And we would disclose my per diem, we wouldn't try to hide it ... trying to go above and beyond, not accepting any per diem for the kids or Todd at all, they've lived outside of the governor's house. Trying to follow the rules and doing what is legal and ethical and full disclosure.

( I LOVE this one. Translation: "Since I admitted on my financial forms that I was stealing from the Alaskan people then it should not be held against me. Right?")

Q. Were you aware that during the campaign there were some large protests in Anchorage against your candidacy as well as your handling of the Walt Monegan issue? What do you think about that and what can you do to bring those people back.

A. To bring those people back in terms of ... I wasn't aware of all the protests until like after they'd happened, I hear about it, a friend e-mailing me or something saying that there were placards out there saying whatever they would say. I think that's the nature of a national level campaign also. The opposition to our ticket on the national level, that's going to be expressed here on the local level too. The whole Monegan thing, I am glad that we've already gone through two different processes now, the personnel board, which is where it should have been all along, and the legislative investigation of it also. It's done. It's over. People need to move on.

(Translation: "This is really damaging to my reputation and I desperately need it to go away! And what makes these people, who I am supposed to be representing, think I have to answer to them anyway?")

Holy crap she is absolutely unbelievable!

Keep talking darlin, you are doing our work for us.

Update: By the way if you want to "encourage" Sean Cockerham, the reporter who conducted this interview, to pursue the release of Sarah Palin's medical records (especially the ones concerning Trig Palin's birth) you can e-mail him right here: scockerham@adn.com