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Palin: Fort Hood 'profile' shooter ignored
by Mark Silva
Sarah Palin, author of Going Rogue, says the Army psychiatrist, a Muslim, accused of killing 13 and wounding 29 at Fort Hood, Texas, should have been "profiled'' before the shootings.
" I certainly do,'' Palin says in an interview that will air on FOX News' Hannity this evening, "and I think that there were massive warning flags that were missed all over the place, and I think that it was quite unfortunate that, to me, it was a fear of being politically incorrect to not -- I am going to use the word -- profile this guy, profile in the sense of finding out what his radical beliefs were.''
Palin, who is promoting her new memoir with a national book tour beginning in Grand Rapids this evening, tells FOX's Sean Hannity that her views about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, held in the shooting spree that shocked Fort Hood, the Army and a nation are likely to get liberal "heads.. spinning.''
"Now, because I used the word profile, I am going to get clobbered tomorrow morning,'' Palin says in the interview, her first with a cable TV news network, the leading one in this case. "The liberals, their heads are just going to be spinning. They're going to say she is radical, she is extreme.
""But I say profiling in the context of doing whatever we can to save innocent American lives, I'm all for it, then."
(Pictured above, a man waiting in line for the signing of Sarah Palin's new book at a bookstore in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Photo by Bill Pugliano / Getty Images)
The Republican former governor of Alaska and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee says in the interviewand she isn't giving a lot of these talks at the start of the book tour, only speaking with Oprah Winfrey, ABC's Barbara Walters, Hannity and Christian Broadcastingthat she hopes to play a significant role in the future.
"I want to help those worthy causes like special needs, making sure that our world is a more welcoming world for the most special ones,'' says the mother of five, whose youngest was born with Down syndrome. "Don't know if necessarily that means running for higher office, but you know, my life is in God's hands, and I'm seeking that path that he would have me on...
"You're going to hear a lot from me,'' Palin says. "So, you know, the haters are going to have a whole lot of material. Tina Fey, she may have a whole lot of material coming up."
She cannot offer any prediction about her plans for 2012"I wish that I could predict andand prepare for what's going to happen in four years,'' she tells Hannity.
She says this about the campaign pastthe worst moment was having her personal emails hacked "and then being broadcast around the world.. '' And her return to public life has had its choice moments as well, such as the Newsweek magazine cover picturing her in tights, a photo taken for Runner's World magazine"It was just -- just another little shot,'' Palin says.
"But in the grand scheme of things, of course, things like that really don't amount to a hill of beans, when there are many things that are going wrong, something's going right, but something's going wrong in our country that people want to hear about and talk about...
"I think that the American people, they're tiring of the tabloidization of some people, like me. And they want to get to the issues,'' says Palin, who suggested in an interview with ABC that the Israelis should be allowed to continue expansion of settlements in Palestinian territories and that President Barack Obama should listen to what his generals are telling him to do in Afghanistan and that the president, as far as his economic policies are concerned, has things "backassward.''
"As a person, I think he's very charismatic, quite articulate,'' Palin says of Obama in her talk with Hannity. "Very, very talented as a politician.'' (Obama says he wishes her well, too, but "probably won't'' be reading that book of hers.) "I'd like to see him put all of those God-given talents that he's so full of to better use for America."
Asked if she believes, as FOX's own Glenn Beck has argued, that Obama is a radical, Palin says, "I will not hesitate to say that his associates have been extremely radical and we see that then in some of the appointments he has made."
Also, she finally has an answer for Katie Couric's famous campaign question of the vice presidential candidate about what sources of news she reads for information.
"I read Newsmax and the Frontiersman (the local newspaper in Wasilla, Ala., where Palin was mayor, which notes today that Palin's book tour has folks wondering if this is the start of a campaign) and Wall Street Journal and everything online,'' Palin says. "I absorb the news via many, many sources."
Holder: No Failure In 9/11 Prosecution
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