Ex-Alaska governor criticises media on Facebook; calls latest mistake a slip of the tongue

Sarah Palin defends N Korea gaffe

Ex-Alaska Governor criticises media on Facebook; calls latest mistake a slip of the tongue

Sarah Palin would like you to know that she's not the only high-profile person who's suffered from slips of the tongue the president has too.

In response to her latest verbal gaffe mistakenly calling North Korea an American ally the ex-vice presidential candidate took a swipe at critics with a Thanksgiving message blasting the media and pointing out Obama's previous misstatements.

The message, posted on her Facebook page, is addressed to "all 57 states," a poke at President Obama who mistakenly told an audience in 2008 that he has been to more states than the actual number.

And Palin didn't stop there: Obama's bungles are highlighted in a series of links to YouTube clips.

They include the President calling Europe a country, the US fighting to halt the rise of privacy" (he meant piracy) in Somalia and Israel being a "strong friend of Israel's."

Palin wrote, "If you can't remember hearing about them, 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."

Under pressure

The former, half-term Alaska governor has been criticised for several verbal slips since she took the national stage.

Palin was slammed in July for using the made-up word "refudiate" and in August for using the phrase "cackle of rads."

In 2008, she infamously declared Alaska is "right over the border" from Russia in explaining why her home state's proximity to the country gives her foreign policy experience.

In the latest slip, Palin said "we gotta stand with our North Korean allies" during a live interview on a radio show on Wednesday.

The conservative radio host pointed out the error, to which Palin said, "Yeah" and corrected herself, referencing South Korea in her following remarks.

The former Alaska governor chastised the media for exaggerating the incident.

Palinisms

"Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate."u00a0A tweet by Sarah Palin, which she quickly removed after being ridiculed for inventing the word refudiate, July 18, 2010

"Refudiate, misunderestimate,' wee-wee'd up. English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!" A follow-up tweet by Sarah Palin, proudly mistaking her illiteracy for literary genius, July 18, 2010

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