Since everyone seems obsessively interested in Sarah Palin these days, here she is in Charlie Rose’s “Green Room,” saying, among other things, that Alaska’s oil can revitalize our economy and give us energy independence, which is of course, um, false:

And here’s a full hour of Charlie Rose with Ariz. governor Janet Nepolitano and Palin:

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Note, in this latter video, the relentless deceit on the “Bridge to Nowhere” question, which Rose allows to pass unquestioned.

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