Sarah Palin’s Greatest Hits

After watching a number of these Sarah Palin-Katie Couric interviews today, I have to say that they might be one of the funniest things I’ve watched in a while — much funnier than the SNL parodies, which are a complete comedic failure. Anyhow, I kind of had to search around a bit to find the best ones, so here’s a compilation:

• On the “Bush Doctrine”
• On her news sources
• On experience
• On foreign policy
• On the economy (I): job creation
• On the economy (II): another Great Depression
• On the economy (III): John McCain’s legislative record
• Update: On Roe v. Wade
• Update: On abortion and evolution
• Update: On democracy, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and Israel

I think what makes these interviews especially funny isn’t so much that she’s completely uninformed and inarticulate, although this is a significant part of it. Basically, I agree with Matthew Yglesias that what produces the bizarre and baffling effect of watching Palin speak is that she’s trying desperately to communicate in Capitol Hill jargon, but is only capable of expressionistically stringing together talking points that fail to produce a coherent thought.