Lauer / Palin

My very favorite trait of Sarah Palin's is that she refuses to be talked over or talked down to in an interview. She is always, always in control of the conversation and does not allow her interviewer to take her down tangential roads that end in pointless rhetoric. She stays on topic and does not back down when her stand is questioned.

I have yet to figure out how to embed a video clip on here, so I'm just going to give you the link and hope that you click it and watch.

A little background: Matt Lauer is interviewing Sarah Palin about a deal in the works to get oil from Alaska's North Slope to the rest of the U.S., via pipeline. However, the bulk of the interview is dedicated to the ongoing back-and-forth between Palin and David Letterman over disparaging remarks Letterman made about Palin's daughter. (Just which daughter Letterman was actually disparaging is open to interpretation, as 14-year-old Willow was with Palin during her recent trip to New York. However, Letterman claims that the "joke" was about 18-year-old Bristol, as though that somehow makes it better.)