Sarah Palin on Obama's "backassward" economic policy

More from Barbara Walters' interview of Sarah Palin for ABC:

Walters: "Unemployment in the United States is now more than ten percent, the highest level since 1893. If you were president, what would you do about unemployment?"

Palin: "I would start cutting taxes and allowing our small businesses to keep more of what they are earning, more of what they are producing, more of what they own and earn so that they could start reinvesting in their businesses and expand and hire more people. Not punishing them by forcing health care reform down their throats; by forcing an energy policy down their throats that ultimately will tax them more and cost them more to stay in business. Those are backassward ways of trying to fix the economy."

A video of the exchange, courtesy of Real Clear Politics, is here. YouTube videos of former Gov. Sarah Palin's interview segements which were aired on ABC Tuesday are here, here and here.

- JP

Video: Sarah Palin talks to Barbara Walters about her future

Sarah Palin talks to Barbara Walters on ABC's "Good Morning America" about her future, the McCain campaign, Tina Fey, David Letterman and more:



Videos of the full Tuesday GMA interview are here and here.

- JP

Sarah Palin to Barbara Walters: "I'll take the blame"

In her interview with ABC's Barbara Walters, Sarah Palin offers an explanation of why McCain campaign staffers dumped on her:

Walters: "Towards the end of the campaign, the press reports quoted 'unnamed McCain aides' calling you 'a diva', 'a whack job', 'a narcissist'... Why do you think these people were trying to destroy your reputation?" 

Palin: "For some people this is a business, and if failure in this business is going to reflect poorly on them, they have to pack their own parachutes and protect themselves and their reputations so they wouldn't be blamed. I'll take the blame, though, because I know at the end of the day what the truth is."

The video clip is at Real Clear Politics.

- JP