Shepard Smith to interview Sarah Palin on election night

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Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, who is re-upping with Fox News for three more years, announced on ABC's "The View" that he will interview Sarah Palin when he anchors Fox's election coverage next Tuesday night. More at the LA Times' Show Tracker blog.

h/t: Ian Lazaran at C4P

- JP

Video: Bristol Palin on "The View"

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Bristol Palin was a guest on ABC's "The View" Wednesday:



From ABC News blog The Note:

Bristol Palin, the daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, said today “it would be awesome” if her mom ran for president and gave an early endorsement of a potential Palin 2012 campaign in a debut appearance on ABC’s “The View.”

“I would love to see that. Definitely, I would” go along with it, she said.

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“It’s not just affecting me now; it affects me for my whole life,” Palin said of her choice to have sex, resulting in pregnancy. “It’s not the best situation.”

Palin also tried to dispel the impression that she may have it easy as a single, teenage mom who is part of a famous family.

“I live by myself. I’m out on my own,” she said. “My family is not at my disposal. I’m a single mom.”

Bristol also appeared on Fox New York's "Good Day" program. Video at Palin TV.

- JP

Pray for Bristol Palin

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According to ABC News tipsheet The Note, Bristol Palin will appear with the stupid, mostly leftist harpies who host ABC's "The View" Wednesday.

Combine stupidity, ignorance and nastiness and you have View host Joy Behar. She's famous for saying of the term used to describe the Friday following Thanksgiving, which is the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season, "Isn't it a little racist to call it Black Friday?" Whoopi Goldberg had to school Behar that, no, it is not even a little raaaacist to say that.

But that was a case of the blind leading the blind, as Goldberg is no Mensa candidate herself. Nor is she the pinnacle of moral insight. Whoopi demonstrated the ethical bankruptcy of Hollywood by defending confessed child molester Roman Polanski, saying what he did to a 13 year old girl "wasn't rape rape."

For anyone who ever doubted the courage of the teen mom who is Sarah Palin's eldest daughter, Bristol's willingness to walk into that den of iniquity should lay them aside. Doubtless she had little choice in the matter, as her role as an ambassador for The Candie's Foundation likely requires her to go where they say.

Still, we will pray for her, and hope that you will do so also. No praying for Tripp to burp up his strained beets all over Joy Behar and Whoopie Goldberg on the set of The View, however. That would be a sin.

- JP

Joe Biden: 'I like Sarah Palin'

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On the WSJ Washington Wire blog, Susan Davis writes that Vice President Joe Biden appeared on ABC's "The View" Thursday, and as it usually does on that show, the top of Sarah Palin came up:

Biden was also pressed for his thoughts on his 2008 vice presidential rival, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. “If you meet her, she is a charming person,” he said. “I say this and people look at me like I’m kidding, I like her.”

The show’s conservative, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, asked Biden if he thought Palin posed a threat in 2012, Biden replied: “The governor says she’s not running. I don’t know what she’s going to do. I’m sure whoever the Republican nominee is, it will be a very contested race.”

Of course Sarah Palin has never said that she's not running. On the contrary, she has hinted that she may be very interested in makeing a run. Joe reminds us very much of what Ronald Reagan said in his landmark "A Time for Choosing" speech:

"Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."

Still, it was very gracious of the veep to say that he liked Gov. Palin, and he was right on the money about how charming she is.

We think that at far as liberals go, Joe Biden isn't such a bad guy, even though he's wrong on a good many issues. He's old school and doesn't seem to drink as much Haterade as the current crop of leftist extremists who are in control of his party and the federal government.

- JP