Sarah Palin Didn't Know Africa Is A Continent

Now that the 2008 election is over, reporters are spilling all the juciest, and previously off the record, gossip from the campaign trail. Much of it is about the infighting between Palin and McCain's staff, as Newsweek's treasure trove of post-election gossip reveals.

However, perhaps one of the most astounding and previously unknown tidbits about Sarah Palin has to do with her already dubious grasp of geography. According to Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron, there was great concern within the McCain campaign that Palin lacked "a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, a heartbeat away from the presidency," in part because she didn't know which countries were in NAFTA, and she "didn't understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series, a country just in itself."

Palin was apparently a nightmare for her campaign staff to deal with. She refused preparation help for her interview with Katie Couric and then blamed her staff, specifically Nicole Wallace, when the interview was panned as a disaster. After the Couric interview, Fox News reported, Palin turned nasty with her staff and began to accuse them of mishandling her. Palin would view press clippings of herself in the morning and throw "tantrums" over the negative coverage. There were times when she would be so nasty and angry that her staff was reduced to tears.

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[doug1863]

how many of the 57 states has odummer visited yet?

[Superplatanoman]

@doug1863 looks like someone is offended that someone questions palin's intelligence. lol

[cityroost]

She'd make a way better president than Obama.

[Superplatanoman]

You are kidding me? Miss I don't know if Africa is a continent?

[NoGuff]

All these things have been shown to be completely false, specifically that she didn't understand Africa was a continent and not a country.

There is NO evidence, NO sources, and NO corraboration from anyone.

The McCain staffers were obviously ticked off that she was so easily edited to look dumb, and that she was getting more attention than McCain was, and because she's a real Conservative and McCain is a real Democrat.

The McCain staffers were just as likely to vote for Obama as McCain.

[Superplatanoman]

It isn't hard to believe she didn't know this. This is the same woman who didn't know what the Bush doctrine.

[KylieAndres7]

Sarah Palin is dumb and Fox news is bullshit. Fuck everything involved in this video (Not hating on the uploader though)

[flamingisland]

a KINDERGARTENER knows that africa is a continent. how can she even run for president?

[TheDanthedanimal]

sarah palin is stupid!stupid!stupid!stupid!st­upid!stupid!stupid!stupid!stup­id!stupid!stupid!stupid!stupid­!stupid!stupid!stupid!stupid!s­tupid!stupid!stupid!stupid!stu­pid!stupid!stupid!stupid!stupi­d!

[tindallpe]

"The woman is not stupid" But O'Reilly you sure as hell are for suggesting tutoring Sarah Palin would provide enough education to be a VIice President or ,God forbit, a President.It's ok for someone like Sarah Palin to president as long as she is not a Democrat. Fox news are made up of a bunch of rodeo clowns; barefaced lying idiots!

[ThatOneBrownKid]

@thomasjstrat "YOUR AN IDIOT!"

you're*

[StaticJolts]

Now this is the Sarah I have come to know.  She is the single most dangerous thing for America.