Trooper Cooper tries to pry a straight answer from Palin’s spokeswoman, Meg Stapelton:
Around 3:20, Stapelton descends into simple gushing about her employer to no discernible end. She’s got spirit, is a maverick, she can do whatever–whatever–she wants to do, and the world is literally her oyster. Literally. It’s not a metaphor at all. Nope, Palin’s literally gonna wrangle the actual pearls right out of that fucker.
Around 5:00, Stapelton admits Palin has “no plans for anything in particular at this point and time”–although, earlier she had said the governor has been offered ”everything under the sun.” So she left office to affect change, because she couldn’t do that in office. Instead, her master plan–premeditated, we are to believe, months in advance–was to quit her job as a state executive to affect said change outside the government by…well, by whatever comes along. That’ll surely come along–and will certainly be able to help the “right people get elected.” Even though Palin herself, presumably by her own standards a “right person” had already gotten elected.
Also: Anderson Cooper’s amusing bafflement about basic the terminology of basketball through minute four. (I didn’t get it either; but this is the weekend for schadenfruede.)
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