I could use the old line of “How do you know when Sarah Palin is lying? Her lips are moving.” But I am not yet convinced that she is bright enough for that. It could be that she just can’t separate fact from fiction. And yet she still bumbled and couldn’t quite get her facts straight.

Obviously she couldn’t handle the “rough grilling” and “tricky questions” like “What news sources do you read? Can you name one?” from Katie Couric, so she moved down to Matt Lauer. (Note: Emphasis in all quotes are added)

To answer Matt’s question she says:

PALIN: We have a great relationship. Had from Day One. Had from the first time that I met him, last year, he and his wife

But even that simple statement just doesn’t right true. Why? Well..

From msnbc First Read

The tick-tock from McCain communications director Jill Hazelbaker:
“John McCain first met Governor Sarah Palin at the National Governors Association meeting in Washington in February of 2008 and came away extraordinarily impressed.

OK, OK so it was really earlier this year and not last year, but it was February and probabaly seems like more like 2007, because they have had such a close and warm relationship since then, right? uh…

from The Washington Post

The trip provided valuable bonding time for two people who acknowledge they barely know each other.

McCain met Palin at a governor’s conference in February, and did not see her again until she secretly flew to Arizona on Wednesday night. After a phone interview with the senator on Sunday night, she arrived in the state three days later for a session with McCain’s two top lieutenants.

So basically, either she is lying or it is like one of those cases back in High School where somebody claims to be friends with somebody just because they spoke to them once or twice, and that person is trying to prove just how popular they are.

And then the tough hard hitting Laurer threw her a curveball by asking her to explain one of her answers, when she said that it was the campaign staffs and not McCain and Palin that were butting heads. Sarah said:

You know, I don’t even know. That inside baseball stuff regarding the way a campaign works on that level, I certainly didn’t get bogged down in any of the potential skirmishes or perceived problems…

She knows that this was the “reason” was “butting head”, but just who or why, well that is beneath her. I guess maybe she should have had some sort of understanding of the inner working and paid attention to some of the “perceived problems” since according to those staffers the problem was Sarah Palin. But then again as I pointed out yesterday, William McGurn of the Wall Street Journal already explained that by saying

In the treatment of Mrs. Palin by some of the McCain staff, there is the clear whiff of condescension. That’s something a sitting American governor might understandably find hard to stomach coming from a bunch of young professional Republicans who have never themselves run for office.

Funny, even while defending her, it sort of explains why the staffers found her to be “rogue” and a “diva” she was simply annoyed that she felt she was above them. Explains a lot when you think of it that way.

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