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October 4th, 2008 at 7:01 am

Video & Photos: Sarah Palin Carl Cameron Fox News Interview after VP Debate 10-3-08

Republican Vice Presidential candidate Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was interviewed by chief political correspondent Carl Cameron of Fox News on October 3, 2008; her first post-debate interview. Sarah Palin talked about her interview with CBS News anchor Katie Couric and finally let viewers know which newspapers she reads and cited some Supreme Court cases she disagreed with.

Cameron told her that some observers, pleased with her debate performance, asked, “Where was this Sarah Palin in the interview with Katie Couric?”

“OK, I’ll tell you honestly,” Palin said, “the Sarah Palin in those interviews is a little bit annoyed because it’s like, man, no matter what you say, you’re 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 and pivot and go on to another subject that you believe that Americans want to hear about, you get clobbered for that, too.”

Sarah Palin at the post-debate rally in St. Louis, October 2, 2008

Palin made some surprising statements about Democratic Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama:

Palin added, “In those Katie Couric interviews I did feel that there were a lot of things that she was missing in terms of an opportunity to ask what a vice presidential 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, wanted to talk about his proposal to increase government spending by another trillion dollars. Some of his comments that he has made about the war that I think may, in my world, disqualifies someone from consideration as the next commander in chief. … I wanted to talk about things like that. So, I guess I have to apologize about being a little annoyed, but that is also an indication of being outside that Washington elite, outside of the media elite, also, and just wanted to talk to Americans without the filter and let them know what we stand for.”

Sarah Palin at the Post-Debate rally in St. Louis, MO, October 2, 2008

Palin also ended the mystery of what she reads:

“I read the same things that other people across the country read, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and The Economist and some of these publications that we’ve recently even been interviewed through up there in Alaska. Because of everything that we’re doing with oil and gas, a lot of the investment publications, especially, are interviewing us, asking us how we are being so successful up there in contributing to our nation’s step towards energy independence…

“My response to her, I guess it was kind of flippant. But, I was sort of taken aback, like, the suggestion was, ‘You’re way up there in a far away place in Alaska, do you know that there are publications in the rest of the world that are read by many?’ And I was taken aback by that because, I don’t know, the suggestion just was a little bit of perhaps we’re not in tune with the rest of the world.”

Sarah Palin at the Post-Debate rally in St. Louis, MO, October 2, 2008

Sarah Palin with her husband Todd Palin at the post-debate rally in St. Louis, October 2, 2008

Supreme Court cases Sarah Palin disagrees with:

”As a conservative, there are some in the Republican Party who would expect a vice presidential nominee to understand judicial conservatives and to have something that they might object to,” Cameron said.

“And that’s fair, right, and on that one, true, I shouldn’t have been so flippant and just sort of brushed aside that,” Palin said, “because it was an important question and I should have answered it, and yeah, I can cite a lot of cases that I absolutely disagree with the Supreme Court on.”

She elaborated: “A recent one, Kennedy v Louisiana, where the Supreme Court will tell a state that they can’t impose the death penalty even on the heinous crimes of repeat child rapists, that a state … its rights were taken away by the Supreme Court, and we would not be able to decide for ourselves whether the death penalty in a case like that could be implemented or not. That one, I’m certainly not a supporter of that decision.”

Palin mentioned the Kelo case, also with the eminent domain — “that affects me as governor. It affected me as a mayor, also. Property rights are so precious in this nation and for the Supreme Court to have sided with government instead of the people, the property owners on that — that was frustrating. Another one … personally affecting me also, the Exxon Valdez oil spill. The siding with the oil companies, they decimated Alaska’s coastline and much of our fisheries and much of our coastal communities’ livelihoods of people who live there, and they sided with Exxon on the punishment — the punitive damage that was to be awarded, Exxon won on that one, and in a sense, that was frustrating.”

Source: Do Over! Palin Answers Katie Couric’s Questions … to Fox News’ Carl Cameron (She Reads The Economist, She Says)

Photo credit: Lyle Whitworth/Riverfront Times (St. Louis)