More Sarah Palin quotes, if you can stand it. (You know, pimping a book is one thing, but her ubiquitous media tour this week has gone beyond that of total saturation and into the realm of viewer fatigue – no wonder Bill O’Reilly is annoyed this interview aired first.)
Below, some excerpts of Palin on Sean Hannity, which airs at tonight at 9 p.m. on Fox News.
On whether she thinks Fort Hood was an act of terrorism:
“I certainly do, and I think that there were massive warning flags that were missed all over the place, and I think that it was quite unfortunate that, to me, it was a fear of being politically incorrect to not -- I am going to use the word -- profile this guy, profile in the sense of finding out what his radical beliefs were.”
“Now, because I used the word profile, I am going to get clobbered tomorrow morning. The liberals, their heads are just going to be spinning. They're going to say she is radical, she is extreme.”
“But I say profiling in the context of doing whatever we can to save innocent American lives, I'm all for it, then.”
On Obama’s position on talking to Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:
“I do believe that [President Obama] has evolved from that position that he took as a candidate, and he realizes now you cannot make such a promise, not when you're dealing with these mad men, who do want to destroy America and wipe like Israel off the face of the earth.”
“[T]here are other countries that we need to start putting pressure on, like Russia, and make sure that Russia is recognizing too that we're not going to put up with those threats of this Iranian regime that is so threatening and so controlling.”
On U.S. relations with China:
“Well, we have to start cleaning up our own house here in America and not so much -- well, it's going to be twofold -- but we can't just look at China and blame them for some kind of trade imbalance. It's also our fault, because we had spent so much money.”
On 2012:
“I do not know. I wish that I could predict and – and prepare for what's going to happen in four years.”
On her future:
“I want to help those worthy causes like special needs, making sure that our world is a more welcoming world for the most special ones. Don't know if necessarily that means running for higher office, but you know, my life is in God's hands, and I'm seeking that path that He would have me on.”
“You're going to hear a lot from me. So, you know, the haters are going to have a whole lot of material. Tina Fey, she may have a whole lot of material coming up.”
On those “haters”:
“They need to start by reading my book and not believing the tabloidization or the mainstream media that wants to portray me as something that I am not.”
