Palin Tells FOX News She Was "Annoyed" by Couric's Questions. Darn Right!

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If you don't want to answer the question, just say so. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin did last night in the vice presidential debate in St. Louis:

According to a CNN transcript, Palin basically told moderator Gwen Ifill and opponent Joe Biden they could shove her lectern where the sun don't shine. Palin was taking her case to the people:

And I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also.

The Huffington Post's Sam Stein reports that Palin, oddly speaking of herself in third person, talked later with FOX News' Carl Cameron about answering pesky questions:

"The Sarah Palin in those interviews was a little bit annoyed," she said. "It's like, man, no matter what you say, you are going to get clobbered. If you choose to answer a question, you are going to get clobbered on the answer. If you choose to try to pivot and go to another subject that you believe that Americans want to hear about, you get clobbered for that too."

She helpfully added what Couric should have asked her about (don't forget Palin does have a degree in journalism):

"In those Katie Couric interviews, I did feel that there were lot of things that she was missing in terms of an opportunity to ask what a VP candidate stands for, what the values are represented in our ticket. I wanted to talk about Barack Obama increasing taxes, which would lead to killing jobs. I wanted to talk about his proposal to increase government spending by another trillion dollars. Some of his comments that he's made about the war, that I think may, in my world, disqualify someone from consideration as the next commander in chief. Some of the comments that he has made about Afghanistan -- what we are doing there, supposedly just air raiding villages and killing civilians. That's reckless. I want to talk about things like that. So I guess I have to apologize for being a bit annoyed, but that's also an indication of being outside the Washington elite, outside of the media elite also. I just wanted to talk to Americans without the filter and let them know what we stand for."

Maybe because she was on friendly FOX, Palin just let it all hang out. Darn right she's outside the Washington elite, the media elite. From now on, all interviews are going to be on her terms. You betcha.

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