CNN’s Anderson Cooper vs. Sarah Palin’s Spokesperson Meg Stapleton

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more ridiculous, along comes Sarah Palin’s vacationing spokesperson Meg Stapleton. Her interview with Anderson Cooper last night was a continuation of the steaming pile of stupid we witnessed earlier from her boss, including another forced and even more bizarre basketball analogy:

Do you say then that a point guard charging down a basketball court is not leading when he passes the ball or she passes the ball? [...] When someone is driving down a basketball court, which is her analogy and I think it speaks well to where she is, and that is, I can’t effect change right now because of the political climate that’s there. I’m going to pass the ball. I’m going around it. And we still all have the same common hoop, but I’m going around the block and I’m passing the ball at this time because it’s best for Alaska.

“And we still all have the same common hoop.” That fucking rocks a million different ways. Cooper’s facial expressions during that mess were priceless. Highly recommended. The whole interview is great. You can watch it all here:

MORE: As Tom65 notes in the comments, Anderson Cooper makes a good point while asking Stapleton, her spokesperson, what she’s doing in NY while Palin was rushing out her rambling and incoherent announcement in Alaska. That makes no sense at all, Blackberries or not. The few knuckleheads who are lunging to her defense had better be careful, because the scandal rumors (here and here) are the best explanation for what happened yesterday. Even Palin isn’t that reckless. This was a rush job and a low-traffic blogger photoshopping a picture of her and Trig wasn’t the reason for it. I think we’ll find out early next week.

Posted by Kevin K. on 07/04/09 at 03:25 AM • Permalink

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Cooper hit on something very telling - why was her spokesperson in NY? It gives credence to the theory that this was all very sudden and spurred by a larger issue.

Good old Palin, going out in a blaze of “WTF???”

Comment by Tom65 on 07/04/09 at 09:05 AM

Sarah Palin isn’t the female Ronald Reagan. She’s the female Frank Drebin:

It’s a topsy-turvy world, and maybe the problems of two people don’t amount to a hill of beans, but this is our hill…and these are our beans.

It’s the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year’s Day.

Protecting the Queen’s safety is a task that is gladly accepted by Police Squad. No matter how silly the idea of having a queen might be to us, as Americans, we must be gracious and considerate hosts.

A parachute not opening… that’s a way to die. Getting caught in the gears of a combine… having your nuts bit off by a Laplander, that’s the way I wanna go!

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 07/04/09 at 10:47 AM

It’s so cute when Anderson scrunches up his face and unconsciously scratches his head in complete bewilderment at the logic- and fact-free word salad that is Meghan Stapleton? He must be wondering, have we at last found Palin’s brain? Did the jar in which Eye-gore found it really say it belonged to some Abby Normal guy?

Comment by Allan on 07/04/09 at 12:13 PM

After suffering through Palin’s Prom-Queen-at-the-Nuremberg-Rallies routine last fall, I for one will be delighted if it turns out that she’s the sad inept two-bit embezzling greedmeister her Alaskan detractors have said she is all along.

Comment by Oblomova on 07/04/09 at 12:25 PM

Big Thought of the Day: If the resignation of one of the GOP’s leading officeholders strengthens the party, then having ALL of them resign would make the Republicans unstoppable, no?

Comment by Judas Peckerwood on 07/04/09 at 04:51 PM

I have such a hard time deciding what’s the best part of that train wreck, but I might go for the Babbling Spokeslady’s confident assertion that, for Sarah Palin, “the world is literally her oyster.”

So now, we all have to hide the big rocks from Sarah’s claws, m’kay?

Comment by Oblomova on 07/04/09 at 05:23 PM

Even Palin isn’t that reckless.

I dunno. Taking the VP slot when you don’t know fuck-all about 99% of the issues a president faces and your teenage daughter has recently been knocked up (by a guy whose mom deals drugs) ain’t exactly a show of caution.

Comment by Steve M. on 07/05/09 at 11:34 PM

So spokesperson claims Palin has no plan after her resignation this month? Palin makes such a potentially life changing decision with such serious implications for the state of Alaska and, possibly, the nation (in 2012) and we’re supposed to believe that she hasn’t given a moment’s thought to where she goes from there. That’s the biggest pile of rubbish I’ve ever heard. It’s ludicrous and insulting for her to actually believe that anyone with a shred of common sense would believe such a crock.

And if it’s actually true that she can’t plan her life 30 days into the future and can’t be counted on to finish the remainder of an elected term, then I have absolutely no confidence in her ability to represent any constituency via elected office.