Thank God almighty, she's free at last! (And she's getting paid for it too.)
Palin to Do TV Interview Monday
Sarah Palin is scheduled to sit for her first extended interview since the Tucson shooting rampage on Monday night, on the Fox News Channel.
An executive at Fox News Channel said that Ms. Palin would appear on the program of the conservative host Sean Hannity, and that the interview was scheduled to run through several commercial breaks.
The announcement came on Thursday, another day when Ms. Palin was figuring prominently in the discussion surrounding the Tucson shooting rampage, for her video statement about the shootings that she released Wednesday morning to stinging reviews from liberals and even some Republicans.
Ms. Palin is a paid Fox contributor, but she has been laying low on the network in the wake of the shooting. Her agreement to sit for an interview comes as even some Republicans have urged her to put herself out there for questions amid the criticism she is facing.
As you are no doubt aware, Palin delivered her web video yesterday from the comfort of her home television studio in Alaska where she is hiding from "those who embrace evil" and "mock" America by "seeking to muzzle" her voice. Their "shrill cries," she said, are spreading a "blood libel" about her rhetorical stylings.
Some say Hannity will ask Palin a series of tough questions, such as:
• Once it became clear that you were the twenty-first victim of the Tucson shooting, how did it make you feel?
• As you say, liberals have muzzled you, and your only way of communicating with the public is now through Facebook, Twitter, vimeo, Fox News Channel, and every other media organization known to mankind. How are you handling the oppressive weight of liberal censorship?
• Is there anything you'd like to say to the people who are spreading the blood libel about you?
• Why do you think President Obama hates America so much? Do you sometimes wish he would move back to Kenya, where he belongs?
• What do you think it says about liberal blood-lust that they mistook the surveyor's mark on your target map for the crosshairs of a gunsight?
The interview will be rebroadcast at midnight ET on Fox News Channel. Nobody can force you to watch it, but if you don't, you'll be muzzling the former half-term governor of Alaska.
