Sarah Palin, who drew wide criticism after declaring that the United States has to stand with "our North Korean allies," after North Korea’s shelling on the South Korean islet of Yeonpyeong, harshly criticized the “media unfairness” of inordinately focusing on her gaffe, while failing to illuminate her many other constructive remarks that showed her good grasp of international politics.
And for this purpose, she used Barak Obama. In her Facebook page on Thanksgiving, she listed an amusing series of verbal slips made by Obama. She then said:
“If you can't remember hearing about them (from Obama), that's because for the most part the media didn't consider them ‘newsworthy.’ I have no complaint about that. Everybody makes the occasional verbal gaffe – even news anchors.”
She claimed that she was a media scapegoat. “It seems (media) couldn't resist the temptation to turn a simple one word slip-of-the-tongue of mine into a major political headline,” she said.
She continued: “If the media had bothered to actually listen to all of my remarks on Glenn Beck's radio show (where she made the mistake), they would have noticed that I refer to South Korea as our ally throughout, that I corrected myself seconds after my slip-of-the-tongue, and that I made it abundantly clear that pressure should be put on China to restrict energy exports to the North Korean regime.”
Palin made herself a hot media commodity when during an interview on Glenn Beck's syndicated radio show Wednesday she made the blunder.
She was quickly corrected by her host. But many bloggers didn’t miss it and commented that the episode was an example of the 2008 vice presidential candidate's lack of foreign policy grasp.
