Sarah Palin and Barbara Walters Also Part of Oprah Interview

Sarah Palin to Barbara Walters: Barack Obama ‘incorrect, disingenuous’ on death panels; tea party movement is ‘beautiful’
Orlando Sentinel
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin turns more political in her interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters.
Their chat starts on Tuesday’s “Good Morning America.”
Palin’s first interview to promote her book, “Going Rogue,” aired today on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”
Palin has blasted President Barack Obama’s push for health-care reform by saying the changes would open decisions on the elderly and disabled to “death panels.” Obama has blasted that criticism as “a lie, plain and simple.”
Palin notes that the words “death panels” are not found “in any of those thousands of pages of different variations of the health-care bill.” Yet Palin adds that the president is “incorrect, and he is disingenuous.”
The woman who was John McCain’s running mate last year hails the tea party movement. She says that the McCain campaign was wrong to support the first bailout package.

“That very first bailout, yes. Now we have learned, too, it didn’t fulfill the promises that were made by Congress, and by the White House, that bailing out these businesses that were ‘too big to fail,’ ” Palin said. “That did not put our economy back on the right track. So we learn from our mistakes. The tea party movement, beautiful. It energizes our country. More power to these people who are showing up there.”

Palin tells ABC that running for president in 2012 isn’t on her radar screen — a statement she made to Winfrey, too.
But when you consider some of the ordinary turning into extraordinary events that have happened in my life, I am not one to predict what will happen in a few years,” Palin said.

“My ambition if you will, my desire, is to help our country in whatever role that may be, and I cannot predict what that will be, what doors would be open in the year 2012,” she said.

Will she play a major role? “If people will have me, I will,” she said.

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Sarah Palin On Being Interviewed By “The Perky One”
In her interview with Oprah Winfrey which was broadcast on “The Oprah Show” Monday, Sarah Palin refers to Katie Couric as “The Perky One”:
Oprah: …been in a situation where you leave and you say “I wish I had said something different.” So when you finished that interview did you think, “I wish I had just named some magazines?”
Sarah: Absolutely! Then we probably wouldn’t be talking about it today.
Oprah: So you are saying now that the reason why you had the responses to Katie Couric is because you were annoyed with her?
Sarah: Well, I was annoyed with where we were, what we were doing at the time, and all these segments too. We had just come off the most amazing rally, working the rope line for I don’t know how long, these energized awesome people, and I’m pumped up, over the top pumped up with energy, and I’m so happy and running back stage. And my friend Betsy opens the curtain for me and there’s the perky one again, with the microphone and the cameras rolling, and I’m like, hey, you know, give me a couple of minutes to gather…
Oprah: Perky meaning Katie.
Palin: With all due respect, yeah.
Oprah: You’re pretty perky too.
Sarah: I talk a lot about the Katie Couric interview in the book because I want the transcript, too, to speak for itself, to show that she asked me twelve different times my position on abortion and the morning after pill. She did not want, I guess, to hear my first candid, truthful response about being pro life and wanting to usher in a culture of life and empower women to know that they are strong enough and smart enough to have that child. I gave my answer and she asked it again.
A video clip of this segment of the interview is here, courtesy of “Real Clear Politics. The Oprah Show’s recap of the full interview is here.
NewsBusters.org, Sarah Plain had said that some of her annoyance with Couric stemmed from what she perceived as an elist attitude on Couric’s part:

“Well, and, obviously, I have, of course, all my life I’m a lover of books and magazines and newspapers,” Palin said. “By the time she asked me that question, even though it was kind of early on in the interview, I was already so annoyed, and it was very unprofessional of me to wear that annoyance on my sleeve, but it was like … ‘Are are you kidding me? Are you really asking me?’ To me, it was in the context of, ‘Do you read? How do you stay informed, you’re way up there?’ It seemed like she was discovering this nomadic tribe, a member of a tribe from some Neanderthal cave in Alaska, asking me, ‘How do you stay in touch with the real world?'”

She said she thought Couric was indicative of the state of journalism today and the fundamental problems with it.

“That’s how I took the question, so I kind of– well, didn’t kind of, I did. I rolled my eyes and was annoyed with the question and thought, ‘You know, I think that this is a problem with the state of journalism today, is no matter what I say to her, it will probably be twisted, perceived as a bit negative.'”

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Wild Thing’s comment…….
I am looking forward to Rush’s talk with Sarah today on his show.