I know this is barely a diary...but I have to be up early in the morning, I haven't seen it anywhere else, and, well...read on and you'll see...
ABC put out more of the Palin interview with Charlie Gibson on Nightline tonight...in particular, one segment we haven't seen earlier in the day in which Palin and Gibson take a walk next to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
Charlie presses Palin on whether or not global warming is caused by human action. She ducks and weaves a bit, and he moves on to ANWR.
This is not an exact transcript (I'm sure Al Rodgers will come along with one shortly), but it's close enough:
"Charlie, ANWR is just 2,000 acres out of 2 million acres."
OMG. WTF. BBQ. ZOMG!
Per wikipedia:
ANWR comprises 19,800,000 acres (80,000 km2)[3] of the north Alaskan coast. The land is situated between the Beaufort Sea to the north, Brooks Range to the south, and Prudhoe Bay to the west. It is the largest protected wilderness in the United States and was created by Congress under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980.[4] Section 1002 of that act deferred a decision regarding future management of the 1,500,000 acres (6,100 km2) coastal plain, known as the "1002 area." The controversy surrounds drilling for oil in this area of ANWR.
Oh, and she can't pronounce "nuclear," either, though that appears to be no barrier to high office.
UPDATE: Per several commenters below, the "2,000 acres" appears to be a reference to the area that the actual drilling rigs would take up. So she wasn't pulling that number out of a moose's behind.
I'm reasonably certain, though, that the way she phrased it to Charlie (and he echoed it) made it sound as though all of ANWR is just 2,000 acres out of 20 million acres in Alaska, when the real numbers are almost 20 million acres out of 365 million.
2x UPDATE: kossack oregonj posts a link to an earlier diary calling Palin out on the same specious claims. Good stuff...go read!