{"id":7696,"date":"2012-08-01T10:12:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T17:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7696"},"modified":"2012-08-01T10:12:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T17:12:14","slug":"the-alaska-mistake-mouths-off-sarah-palin-finally-responds-to-dick-cheney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7696","title":{"rendered":"The Alaska Mistake Mouths Off: Sarah Palin Finally Responds To Dick Cheney"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SarahIt took 72 hours, but Sarah Palin has finally responded to the blunt assessment of her by former Vice-President Dick Cheney. Palin visited the friendly territory of Fox News, and her old pal Greta Van Susteren, to swing back at Cheney who told ABC News that her selection as John McCain’s running mate was “a mistake.”<\/em> Cheney does have a gift for understatement.<\/p>\n

In the course of the interview Palin went out of her way to insult Cheney by saying that his remarks about her were the result of his having been “convinced”<\/em> of a “false narrative”<\/em> by “the lamestream media.”<\/em> Cheney may be many things (many terrible, frightening things), but he does not tend to swallow prepackaged media presentations. Rather, he is more likely to invent them himself. Nevertheless, Palin tossed out her usual word-salad saying…<\/p>\n

“Here’s where the mistake would have been, Greta, I believe. It’s had I not answered the call. I was honored to get to run for Vice President of the United States alongside Senator John McCain. I was honored to accept the nomination from the GOP.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Palin seems to think that the mistake Cheney referenced was that she accepted the VP nomination, rather than McCain offering it to her in the first place. That sort of incoherent misunderstanding validates Cheney’s opinion of her. But Palin wasn’t finished. She went on to glorify herself and the sacrifice she undertook to become a major party candidate for vice-president.<\/p>\n

“It would have been a mistake to have hunkered down, just lived that luxurious, if you will, comfortable lifestyle in Alaska.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, we now know that Palin gleefully exploited the notoriety she attained from the nomination. She peddled her books and speaking engagements. She signed a multimillion dollar deal with Fox News. She starred in laughably inept reality TV programs. She increased her net worth many times over, yet recalls wistfully her “luxurious”<\/em> lifestyle in Alaska. Is anyone really buying this tripe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It took 72 hours, but Sarah Palin has finally responded to the blunt assessment of her by former Vice-President Dick Cheney. Palin visited the friendly territory of Fox News, and her old pal Greta Van Susteren, to swing back at Cheney who told ABC News that her selection as John McCain’s running mate was “a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,608,381],"class_list":["post-7696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-dick-cheney","tag-greta-van-susteren","tag-sarah-palin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-208","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8730,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8730","url_meta":{"origin":7696,"position":0},"title":"The Sarah Palin Chronicles: A 2012 Retrospective Of Humiliation And Hilarity","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/29\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The past year has presented a wealth of unintentional comedy from right-wing raconteurs whose generosity in embarrassing themselves was profound. 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