You can't throw a rock at the Internet this calendar week without hitting a story about Alaska governor (and John McCain vice presidential pick) Sarah Palin, the white-hot flicker that's enkindled one of the biggest media frenzies of the 2008 crusade.� But because Palin has minimized her on camera presence--preferring, for better or worse, to let her surrogates do the TV for her-- there's scarcely any YouTube video of her to be scrutinized. We've collected several of the most notable clips here.�
�Videos of Palin over the last year offer a peep at her folksy, low-key speaking style, which she uses quite effectively to soften her hard-line positions on get-up-and-go policy, national security, and, more important ...� �energy policy.� Palin is about as pro "resource development" as it gets.�
On the undermentioned clip from CNN's "Glenn Beck" show up, Beck and Palin agree that the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR) is ready to be tapped, polar bears be blame.� Later, at 3:50, Beck asks Palin whether she'd want to be the vice chairman if John McCain came knocking.� Palin is coy:
"If I had to make such a determination today, it would be no.� There's a lot that Alaska could be, should be, doing to conduce to the U.S. and I think that I can help do that as governor of the state, staying here."
User 1984dobson has posted a montage of clips relating to Palin's participation in the Alaskan Independence Party, including a tV welcome she sent to the party's 2008 normal.� In the clip, party official Dexter Clarke notes that Alaska is "the coldest state with the hottest governor," and brags that Palin is "pretty well sympathetic because of her former rank" in the AIP.
Below, Dani Carlson, a member of MTV's citizen journalism squad, interviews Palin back on Super Tuesday� on what appears to be a cellphone video camera.� When asked which candidates she liked, Palin mentions Mitt Romney and Web-world favorite Ron Paul ("He's a upright guy ... he's independent of like the party machine, and I'm like, 'Right on, so am I!'") -- merely she doesn't mention McCain at all.
In the following clip from 2007, Palin grants "Late Late Show" host Craig Ferguson Alaskan honorary citizenship, and invites him to visit the state and partake of "rich, succulent wild Alaskan salmon."�
"Is it just me," Ferguson asks, "or do you get a kind of juicy librarian vibration from the governor?"�
In an interview final week (merely before being unveiled by McCain) with CNBC's Larry Kudlow, Palin defends herself from allegations that she fired a cabinet official who refused to throw out her previous brother-in-law, locution she welcomed the questions and that she "didn't do anything wrong."
Though not directly involving Gov. Palin, the MSNBC clip downstairs has already garnered plenteousness of attention.� Commentators Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy, intellection their microphones are off after they finished a discussion segment, proceed to say what they truly think most the Palin nomination.� Murphy calls the pick "cynical," spell Noonan labels it a bit of political bologna (though she uses a stronger word)--before saying "it's over."
And topping the YouTube charts today is Web star LisaNova's funny (if work-unsafe) lampoon of the McCain-Palin� slate.� �LisaNova has made sure that by the time the likes of "Saturday Night Live" gets its custody on the ticket, the joke will have already been told.�
