Fox News: Sarah Palin propaganda machine, or secretly working toward her destruction?

There is a spotlight shone on Palin's lack of intelligence concerning economic matters during this entire interview, and for the life of me I cannot decide WHY she agreed to go on this show.  Is Fox trying to destroy her credibility, or are they counting on the fact that their audience is so intellectually challenged that they will not pick up on her glaring mistakes?

Host Liz Clayman actually asks this dimwit to suggest ways that President Obama could more effectively repair the American economy.  And she does this with a straight face, which I believe should get her an Emmy nomination at the very least!

At the 1:20 mark Palin makes the staggering suggestion that because Barack Obama has not run a business he does not understand how to run the country.  As if running the largest nation on earth is comparable to running a Subway sandwich shop in Wasilla or something.  It is pure idiocy.

To her credit Liz Clayman calls Palin on her simplistic answers about the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy at the 3:00 mark.  You can see Palin start to blink frantically which I believe is the agreed upon signal for her handlers to bail her out via her hidden earpiece. (I like the fact that she swallows hard in the middle of Clayman's question. Gotta love those tics!)  At the 3:35 mark Palin decides to change the focus from the national level, to a local level, feeling that she has more understanding of that kind of government.  Of course she doesn't.

Then the first thing she volunteers is that she was a city manager, which is complete bullshit since she hired John Cramer for that position while she was the mayor, and by all accounts HE was the one who did the actual day to day work of running the city for her. And as for her claim that she cut taxes? Well she DID cut property taxes, but only while raising the sales tax. However she also left the city 20 million dollars in debt when she left office. Concerning her call to cut federal spending, it should be noted that while mayor of Wasilla Palin was constantly flying to Washington to beg for money, and secured 27 million dollars for a town of 6,700 during her term, including 15 million for a rail project THAT WAS NEVER BUILT!

And WHERE is that money today?  Now THAT is a very good question indeed!

At the 5:15 mark Clayman again tries to be fair to President Obama, and lays out the positive impact his policies have had on the economy thus far, ending by asking Palin if she should not give "credit where credit is due." Clearly this woman does NOT know Sarah Palin who immediately dismisses Clayman's observation by saying essentially "I haven't seen that!"  Then she goes on the attack listing all of the damage done to the economy by the Bush administration and then dumping al lof that on Obama's doorstep.  Which, by the way, is a typical Republican shell game being played on the American people these days.

When the Palin-bot that Fox News insisted sit in on this interview to protect their star moron, asks Sarah Palin at the 6:50 mark about the Gelnn Beck rally, and why Obama did not watch it, the conversation goes from the surreal to the ridiculous. First Palin insists that the rally was attended by "hundred, and hundreds  of thousands of people" when the ONLY scientific measurement, which was done by CBS News, puts the number at around 87,000 people. (Here the company, Air Photos Live, explains how they reached that number and defends themselves against the Right Wing attacks.) Then she claims that President Obama was on vacation while the rally was going on, when in fact he was in New Orleans visiting with those still recovering from the devastation of Katrina.

No offense to my female visitors, but sometimes she is SUCH a hateful bitch!

(There is a second part to this interview if you want to watch it, but beware Palin does not sound any more intelligent in that part either.)

So exactly WHY do the powers that be at Fox News allow Sarah Palin to demonstrate her incredible lack of knowledge on their airwaves?  Are they gathering sound bites to use against her when she runs for President?  Do they have such a low opinion of their viewers that they don't think they will pick up on her stupidity? Is it just about ratings and they realize that people will tune in to watch Sarah Palin no matter WHAT she does?

And then we have to ask what the people that are supposedly helping to guide her decision are thinking when they put her in this situation. Do they think she sounds much smarter than she actually does? Do they have no choice because a certain number of appearances are in her Fox contract, and Fox gets to pick the programs she appears on?  Do they secretly hate her ass and WANT to see her fail on television so that they can mock her behind her back? (Secretly THAT is the one I am rooting for.)

Well WHATEVER the reasoning I think it is clear that the more people who see Sarah Palin trying to explain things that she clearly does not understand about how to run this country, the less likely those people will be fooled into voting for her in any future elections.

So perhaps in the long run, Fox is doing us all a big favor.  At least when it comes to Sarah Palin that is.