Politics | 11/09/2008 6:08 pm
Sarah Palin Fights Back (Video)

Sarah Palin is mad as hell and she’s not gonna take it anymore.
After listening to anonymous people within John McCain’s presidential campaign leak allegations to the press about whether she thinks Africa is a country or a continent, who the members of NAFTA are, how much she charged the Republican National Committee for clothes for her and her family and other nasty rumors, the Alaska governor is letting loose.
Not mincing words, the governor called those behind the smears "sexist, unprofessional jerks," and also said she has talked to McCain since the post-election leaks began, and said he agrees with her that the rumors are uncalled for. "I never asked for anything more other than a Dr. Pepper after awhile," she told reporters Friday.
She also said there was definitely a double standard in the media’s scrutiny of her as compared with the media scrutiny endured by the male candidates. She urged young girls to study hard, but also advised them to be ready to endure that double standard.
"I don’t know if anybody’s asking Barack Obama, for intance, ‘Who did your makeup before you went on stage?’ But they’ve been asking me. And they’ve been reporting who powdered her nose before she went on stage … who purchased the hair spray on the trail?" Palin said. "That’s a double standard and I’m not afraid or ashamed to say that is my feeling on this."
Here’s video of Palin talking to reporters as she returned to the governor’s office Friday.























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