Palin: Don’t fight it, invite it!

Sarah Palin’s Sept. 30 interview with Hugh Hewitt demonstrates, among other things, that she’s equally goofy and incomprehensible in a situation where the risk of encountering actual journalism is approximately zero.

HH: Now Governor, the Gibson and the Couric interview struck many as sort of pop quizzes designed to embarrass you as opposed to interviews. Do you share that opinion?

SP: Well, I have a degree in journalism also, so it surprises me that so much has changed since I received my education in journalistic ethics all those years ago. But I’m not going to pick a fight with those who buy ink by the barrelful. I’m going to take those shots and those pop quizzes and just say that’s okay, those are good testing grounds. And they can continue on in that mode. That’s good. That makes somebody work even harder. It makes somebody be even clearer and more articulate in their positions. So really I don’t fight it. I invite it.

Later in the interview, Palin added that journalists like Gibson and Couric can “talk to the hand,” and that conservatives who worry about her debate performance should be assured that “It’s all good” and that “I’m in there like swimwear.”