What are they smoking at Fox News?

Sarah Palin's book is out. I already saw an ad on the Internet offering it for $4.99. Not good enough for me, frankly. From what I am hearing from the left and from the right, the book is filled with settling scores with ... staffers! Quite an accomplishment for someone Fox News considers a formidable presidential candidate for 2012. That is exactly what we should be looking for in the country's leader - chastising house maids, reproaching the cook, blasting off aids, being petty and vindictive... Yeah, I get it. According to Fox (and it seems like the book itself), Sarah looked stupid during her campaign interviews not because she is stupid, but because McCain staffers "mishandled" her. Seriously, what are they smoking there?

Let us just remember a few highlights from those interviews. When asked what constituted her foreign experience, Ms. Palin stated that 1) Putin flies over Alaska, 2) she visited 3 foreign countries (on her way to a campaign trip to Iraq the plane made a fueling stop in Ireland, and she mistakenly thought that while in Iraq she went a few feet across the border into Kuwait - that makes 3, you know; Sarah DOES know how to count to 3). When asked which newspapers she reads on a regular basis and which news media form her world view, she answered: "Well, all of them." Katie Couric was embarrassed by this answer and pressed some more asking her to name just a few. Like a parrot, Sarah could only repeat: "Like I said, all of them."

Those were not tricky questions, you know. Not for anybody with anything more on their shoulders than a pretty face with a nice hairdo. Those were not the strategically worded questions meant to "get her."

Does anybody seriously think we need to know more about this woman? She twists facts (3 countries???), she does not read, she cannot answer simplest questions, she is pathetically uninformed, she has never had enough curiosity to travel (just don't tell me that it is cheaper to hire a helicopter and get a gun to shoot wolves with from the air than it is to go to, say, Canada on a weekend trip) - a formidable candidate indeed! Well, if that is the best the Republican Party can do, this is a sad day for the party.

Fox states that the Left fears and hates her. Well, I am not the Left, so what would I know? But I don't fear her. I despise her. Oh, and I fully give her credit where it is due. She is pretty, she is in great shape, she has good hair and a great rear end. And that is - well - the end of it.