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TwitterUpdate: Sarah Palin in 2012?
As we reported on the Dish Rag yesterday, Gov. Sarah Palin told ABC News' Elizabeth Vargas during a sit-down interview that she had political aspirations in 2012 should the Republican ticket be defeated Tuesday.
According to a Fox News report today, Palin's senior advisor Tucker Eskew condemned the ABCNews.com article, claiming the original reporting was misleading. The story's original headline read "Palin has an eye on 2012: 'I'm not doing this for naught.' "
"ABC News made a mistake. They've admitted that mistake, but unfortunately, they have compounded that and so have other news organizations." Eskew told Fox News, "In that interview Gov. Palin was asked, right at the very end, about her intentions for 2012... She rejected that contention. She was asked in a follow-up question whether she was discouraged –- and I'm paraphrasing -– discouraged by the attacks on her whether she wanted to just go back to Alaska. At which point she said, 'I'm not going to wave the white flag of surrender and I'm not doing this for naught.' She had talked extensively in this interview about what her reasons what motivated her in this campaign as a governor, a candidate, a mother and a woman. ABCNews.com proceeded to write a terrifically misleading headline that confused -– it's a much better word than 'conflated' -– her answers to those two separate questions."
Eskew told reporters that ABCNews.com has updated the original story and apologized for its error.
ABCNews.com also acknowledged the story has been updated online. Read more of the interview here.
-- Joseph A. Kapsch
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Like Sarah Palin, I also "truly believe that the wisdom of the people will be revealed on that day," when Barack Obama wins the election.
Were McCain/Palin to win, it would only truly reveal the LACK of wisdom of the people.
But as we all know, Palin believes she has God on her side. Her certainty and lack of humility is downright scary.
Of course Palin is positioning herself for 2012. She's going to be the conservative's darling poster girl. I'm already preparing to tune her out as much as I can in the years ahead. She's freak.