Fox News: Palin Thought Africa Was a Country, Not a Continent
To hear Fox News's Carl Cameron tell it, Sarah Palin had John McCain's staffers pining for the cosmopolitan enlightenment and urbane wisdom of Dan Quayle.
According to Cameron, campaign insiders allege…
* Palin couldn't name the three countries in NAFTA.
* She refused preparation for the Katie Couric interview. (You don't say?)
* She threw temper tantrums when faced with bad press clippings.
* She had some very interesting beliefs about Africa…
According to Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron, there was great concern within the McCain campaign that Palin lacked "a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, a heartbeat away from the presidency," in part because she didn't know which countries were in NAFTA, and she "didn't understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series, a country just in itself."
That's right: A country, not a continent.
And yet still not as bad as her husband, Todd, who until 2002 seemed equally convinced that Alaska was a country, not a state.
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With amazement I watch debate about Palin's alleged intelligence verses her demonstrated complete and total stupidity. One has only to have listened to her unsctipted comments to see how ignorant she is on all subjects pertinent to the job she narrowly missed obtaining (thank you very much electorate). The negative comments made in annonimity by McCain campaign aids are easily believed because they have such coherance with our own observations. The only remaining question is how long will the neocon clowns continue to defend this lost cause. You entertain us with your defenses of an obvious and overt idiot.
One of the most telling leaks from the campaign was a staffer's observation that she was unwilling to do the "drudge work" during debate prep. That accords with the consensus that she seems not to have much intellectual curiosity. She also spent six years in five colleges in order to earn a baccalaureate degree. Again, evidence that she avoids "drudge work." I won't comment on her alleged intelligence except to say that, from my own experience, if one is of reasonable intelligence, one can learn enough to pass most courses simply by paying careful attention in class!
ok – tokenism – but she was also chosen because they needed a throwaway (not to many can successfully comeback from a losing VP run for office to either VP or better) because there was no freaking way they expected Mr. Maverickety (which is why Mitt didn't finish) to win after GWB's 8 yr. debacle -war, debt, crappy economy, 7 yrs later and millions of dollars worth of technology and we're still looking for a 7ft tall terrorist scarecrow diabetic on dialysis living in a cave making movies – Bin Laden.
While I certainly was not surprised to hear that Palin thought Africa was a country. (She is clearly an idiot) It
is surprising that someone on Fox would call attention to
it. Unless the new party line they are towing now is "It's Palin's fault McCain lost". Which is partially true. But he did pick a retard for his running mate. The loss is his.
Did you know that this was all a huge hoax…by a fake McCain advisor….check it out at The New York Times online…its really funny!
it was NOT a hoax. the person who claimed to be the mccain advisor was pulling a hoax about his own identity. but the story is true.
MSNBC retracts false Palin story; others duped
By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer David Bauder, Ap Television Writer
Wed Nov 12, 11:33 pm ET
NEW YORK – MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the network said Wednesday.
David Shuster, an anchor for the cable news network, said on air Monday that Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, had come forth and identified himself as the source of a Fox News Channel story saying Palin had mistakenly believed Africa was a country instead of a continent.
Eisenstadt identifies himself on a blog as a senior fellow at the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy. Yet neither he nor the institute exist; each is part of a hoax dreamed up by a filmmaker named Eitan Gorlin and his partner, Dan Mirvish, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
The Eisenstadt claim had mistakenly been delivered to Shuster by a producer and was used in a political discussion Monday afternoon, MSNBC said.
"The story was not properly vetted and should not have made air," said Jeremy Gaines, network spokesman. "We recognized the error almost immediately and ran a correction on air within minutes."
Gaines told the Times that someone in the network's newsroom had presumed the information solid because it was passed along in an e-mail from a colleague.
The hoax was limited to the identity of the source in the story about Palin — not the Fox News story itself. While Palin has denied that she mistook Africa for a country, the veracity of that report was not put in question by the revelation that Eisenstadt is a phony.
Eisenstadt's "work" had been quoted and debunked before. The Huffington Post said it had cited Eisenstadt in July on a story regarding the Hilton family and McCain.
Among the other victims were political blogs for the Los Angeles Times and The New Republic, each of which referenced false material from Eisenstadt's blog.
And in July, Jonathan Stein of Mother Jones magazine blogged an item about Eisenstadt speaking on Iraqi television about a casino in Baghdad's "Green Zone."
Stein later realized he'd been had.
"Kudos to the inventor of this whole thing," Stein wrote. "My only consolation is that if I had as much time on my hands as he clearly does, I probably would have figured this out and saved myself a fair amount of embarrassment."
Ahhhh…. jealousy is a terrible thing. You losers WISH you had half the brains and tenacity and rise that Governor Sarah Palin has had. Now, she is going to get millions from a book. And if that guy( Stevens) in Alaska wins and is forced to step down the people of Alaska will want Sarah Palin to be their senator. Be gracious winners you freakin losers. Your "boy wonder" got elected thanks to voter fraud, 650 million bucks and an overall bad president. Now enjoy his 4 years because that is all he is getting. Liberals are the new nazis. Lowlifes.
Ha! They admitted this was all a huge hoax, but people still are hanging on to this story. Funny and sad at the same time.
I especially love how Palin blames the media for her bad image.
Its the media's fault she…
Couldn't name ONE reform idea that would help Wall Street (her answer was she'd have to "get back to ya")
Couldn't name one Supreme Court decision besides Roe v Wade…
Couldn't give an example of a "pre-condition" for meeting with dictators
Those are just three examples of her on tape…"Unfiltered"
Now you expect us to NOT beleive the reports from her OWN CAMPAIGN that she didn't know who was in NAFTA or that Africa was a continent? Please. Those are very believable accusations. This woman is a dimwit, she unethical, uninterested in the truth and she is more than willing to say/do anything to smear her opponent and advance her own image, i.e., she's a perfect fit for the GOP..and if she does ever win, it wouldn't be the first time we elected a pair of boobs (see 2000-2008).