Unfortunately for the rest of us, Sarah Palin announced she's not going to sit down or shut up any time soon during her interview on Sean Hannity's show on Fox. Lawrence O'Donnell doesn't think Palin is going to run for President and just wants to keep her profile up so she can keep making lots of money.
David Frum and Howard Fineman were not impressed with her performance on Fox and relayed as much during this interview on MSNBC's Last Word.
Here's more from CNN's Political Ticker on the interview:
Palin: 'I am not going to shut up':
In her first interview since the Arizona shootings, Sarah Palin Monday sharply beat back critics who have suggested her at-times charged political rhetoric and use of a graphic featuring crosshairs may have contributed to the shooter’s motivations.
"The graphic that was used was crosshairs. That's not original. Democrats have been using them for years," Palin said in the interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, where Palin is a paid contributor.
"For many years maps in political races have been used to target certain districts that people would feel that they can get into those districts to whom they believe would represent the constituents' will better than the incumbent," she added.
The map in question – created by Palin's political action committee last spring - featured the crosshairs of a gun over the congressional districts of 20 Democratic candidates – including that of Gabrielle Giffords, the congresswoman who was shot in Tucson nine days ago. Last week, Palin aide Rebecca Monsour defended the graphic, saying the crosshairs were not those of a gun but rather "a surveyor symbol."
But Palin's PAC quickly scrubbed the graphic from its website after the shootings, a move Palin said she found appropriate.
"The contract graphic artist did take it down and I don't think that was inappropriate," said Palin. "If it was going to cause much heartburn and even more controversy I didn’t have a problem with it taken down."
In the 30 minute interview, Palin also addressed the criticism she has faced for her video response to the shootings posted last week on Facebook. Critics particularly took issue with the former governor's use of the term "blood libel," a phrase that for many conjures anti-semetic connotations.
"Blood libel obviously means being falsely accused of having blood on your hands. In this case, that's exactly what was going on," she said, adding later, "Just two days before an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal had that term in its title. And that term has been used for eons."
The phrase, which traditionally refers to a long-standing anti-Semitic myth that Jews murder children for religious rituals, drew fire from the Anti-Defamation League and others. But Palin insisted critics were taking issue with the phrasing in hopes of derailing her overall message.
As they noted, Palin claimed that this was not all about her and that the left just wants to destroy her. I think she's doing a pretty good job of that all on her own. And way to stay classy Sarah with doing exactly the opposite of what you claim and making this day where we should have been celebrating the life of Martin Luther King Jr. all about you instead of Dr. King for the viewers of Hannity's show on Fox.
Second half of the Last Word interview with Frum and Fineman below the fold.
