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The Really: Why would anyone say that on a radio show?

Apparently we are missing the political point of Sarah Palin saying they had lost $20K in value in their 401(k) on a conservative talk radio show but she did. The National Review has other nuggets.

She mentioned that she and Todd had lost $20,000 in the past few weeks in their 401(k)s. Can you recall the last time a politician gave a specific number to how much an economic crisis had impacted them? She talked about how she and Todd were worried about paying for college for their children.

She mentioned she and Todd got their first health insurance when they were hired for union jobs.

She said the only time the criticism had gotten “hurtful” was the commentary about Trig Palin, and the insinuation that carrying him to term was a mistake.

She said she had spoken to her son in the Army, Track, when he was in Kuwait on his way to Iraq and that “the little stinker” (ed. a term she also used in a Michigan newspaper article so I guess that is her nickname for him) had called his girlfriend before calling his mother in recent days.

Transcript of the Hugh Hewitt interview. From Townhall blog.