"Just for the record before you go, could you give us an actual eye roll?" Fox News anchor Megan Kelly teased Chris Wallace this afternoon in a brilliant little gem of an interview designed to ferret out the facts behind the latest lame "controversy" fomented by Palin Derangement Syndrome sufferers at MSNBC and on the internet who imagined they had caught Wallace rolling his eyes after interviewing Sarah Palin on Fox News Sunday.
"Look. At the end of Chris Wallace's interview where he rolls his eyes," Palin Derangement sufferer and "serious thinker" Joe Scarborough told fellow MSNBC panelists in a gotcha moment Monday:
Embarrassed. There's no doubt he is. Now he will deny that, but Chris was sending a message to all his friends, "Yes, I know she is not a serious thinker."
"All right, Wallace. True or not true? Confirm or deny. Did you roll the eyes or didn't you?" prosecutor Megan Kelly asked the accused in a fact-filled, fun and funny Fox News interview this afternoon:
No is the quick answer to that … I came away from the interview with nothing but admiration for Sarah Palin. People talk about Palin Derangement Syndrome … I think she did a first-rate job. The Sarah Palin of the Republican Convention in the 2008 election is back, and the deer in the headlights of later on in the campaign is long gone and forgotten.
"This is the first time I had ever met Sarah Palin, and, you know, I wasn't going to go easy on her," Wallace continued, noting that while PDS sufferers were off in lala land, serious commentators like "notoriously conservative" columnist David "The lady is good" Broder and Time's Joe "The Brilliance of Sarah Palin" Klein were saying, based upon the interview, "what a formidable figure Sarah Palin is now, that she really does seem to have captured the populist unrest in the country":
It was a Sunday show, we asked her a bunch of questions on a variety of subjects, and as I say, there wasn't a pause, there wasn't a blink, there wasn't a rolling of the eyes. She knew exactly who she was and what she wanted to say, and I think just speaking as a political observer, she at the Tea Party conference said "What we need is a Commander in Chief and not a professor of law," that's a very powerful argument. Is she ready to be president right now? I don't know, but she's not running for president now. We're talking about 2012. I think she's studying up, she said she's getting briefings every day on foreign policy and national security and domestic policy. I think she is going to be a serious political player in the next three years if she chooses to be one.
As we titled our own blogpost on the interview Sunday, it was "Chris Wallace's "thrill-up-my-leg" moment as Sarah is allowed to be Sarah."
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