function hide_user_promo_bubble_second_stage() { var bubble = $("user_promo_bubble"); bubble.style.display = "none"; } function hide_user_promo_bubble() { var bubble = $("user_promo_bubble"); var myAnim = new YAHOO.util.Anim(bubble, { opacity: { to: 0 } }, 1, YAHOO.util.Easing.easeOut); myAnim.animate(); setTimeout("hide_user_promo_bubble_second_stage()", 1100); } function handle_promo_username(params) { var bubble = $("user_promo_bubble"); var img = $("user_promo_bubble_image"); var anchor = $("user_promo_bubble_link"); if (params.has_photo == "true") { img.src = "http://images.huffingtonpost.com/profiles/" + params.user_id + "-tiny.png"; } else { img.style.display = "none"; Dom.addClass(anchor, "wide"); } anchor.innerHTML = "Shared by " + params.user_name; anchor.href = "http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/" + params.user_name; bubble.style.display = "block"; var myAnim = new YAHOO.util.Anim(bubble, { opacity: { to: 1 } }, 2, YAHOO.util.Easing.easeOut); myAnim.animate(); } if (HuffPoUtil.getUrlVar("user_promo")) { YAHOO.util.Event.onDOMReady(function() { var parts = document.location.hash.split(","), shared_by = "", badge = "", i; if (parts.length < 2) return; for (i = 0; i < parts.length; i++) { if (parts[i].indexOf("sb=") !== -1) { shared_by = parts[i]; } if (parts[i].indexOf("b=") !== -1) { badge = parts[i]; } } if (shared_by == "" || badge == "") return; var bubble = $("user_promo_bubble"); if (!bubble) return; var entry_id = HuffPoUtil.GetEntryID(); if (!entry_id) return; var user_id = parseInt(shared_by.substr(shared_by.indexOf("sb=") + 3)); if (!user_id) return; var badge_type = badge.substr(badge.indexOf("b=") + 2); if (!badge_type) return; script = document.createElement("script"); script.setAttribute("type", "text/javascript"); bubble.appendChild(script); script.setAttribute("src", "/include/share_track.php?a=view&eid=" + entry_id + "&uid=" + user_id + "&b=" + badge_type + "&cb=handle_promo_username"); }); } Palin Confuses Iraq And Iran In Hannity Interview (VIDEO)

Sarah Palin picked celebrity interviewers and right-wing pundits for her book promotion tour, probably to avoid embarrassments like last year's Katie Couric interview.

But even a friendly interview can be treacherous. In a sit-down with Fox News' Sean Hannity Wednesday night, the former Alaska governor confused Iraq and Iran several times.

Asked about how to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons, Palin responded by suggesting we get tough with Iraq.

"We have allies who are as concerned about Ahmadinejad's actions as we are," she said. "Cutting off the imports into Iraq, of their refined petroleum products. They're reliant ... on those imports. We have some control over there. And some of the beneficial international monetary deals that Iraq benefits from, we can start implementing some sanctions there and start really shaking things up and telling Ahmadinejad, nobody is going to stand for this."

Watch: :

Get HuffPost Politics On Facebook and Twitter!

Comments

[Chas37]

What a DODO

[surajshah]

america is slowly going down the toilet...make her the persident and accelerate the process

[rcruss]

Amen~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rod DK]

No big thing at all. President Bush also got confused about Iraq and Iran when looking for WMD. Iraq did not have them, Iran’s sure does. All in all that is just a slight mistake, give and take a war, and a lot of dead Americans and allied soldiers, not forgetting at least 100.000 Iraqis.

[American Amazon]

Oh Geeeese, I could do a better job in middle school! This is supposed to be the great white HOPE for the republican party?? And the thing that makes me laugh the hardest is that Hannity dose not even "correct" her on this major gaff!! It seems she can't open her mouth, with out us having to see how incompetent she is! Keep up the great work Sarah we all need some laughter in our lives.

[munki]

Still unable to comprehend those supports her...

a scary thought to thi8nk of her even becoming a candidate!

[okila]

Embrace it. Support it. She is the reason Obama will have 4 more years. Her support is only to irk the left. I doubt anyone goes to sleep thinking "this should be the leader of the free world."

[RSKaz]

Iran & Iraq...backside & hole in the ground...Whatever.

[HenryGuo]

Iraq or Iran, big deal!
[e-mail])

[Palinater]

That's OK. For awhile there, I used to think her book was, "Going Rouge."

[Doofus]

You mean, it's not? http://www.orbooks.com/

[Doofus]

Here's the thing. If Mr Obama looks good for 2012, no Repo man is going
to want to run, so Ms Palin will have her opportunity, with Ben Gleck as VP.
If he doesn't, she will be pushed aside sooooooo fast, her head will spin.

Meanwhile, she'll be frontrunner for all those who confuse Iron & Irock.

[Doofus]

Of course, that's the conventional wisdom. Frank Rich, in the NYT today:

' But no matter how much Palin tries to pass for “center-right,” she’s unlikely to fool that vast pool of voters left, right and center who have already written her off as unqualified for the White House. The G.O.P. establishment knows this, and is frightened. The demographic that Palin attracts is in decline; there’s no way the math of her fan base adds up to an Electoral College victory.

Yet among Republicans she still ties Mitt Romney in the latest USA Today/Gallup survey, with 65 percent giving her serious presidential consideration, just behind the 71 for her evangelical rival, Mike Huckabee. ' ...

[Doofus]

It must be exhilarating for the GOP when 65% of their
voters want SP, 65% want Rmoney, and 71% prefer
Rev Huck. With numbers like that how can they lose?

[FantasticFourFan]

I love how the right thinks this woman stands even a remote chance against Obama. Please, by all means, run her in 2012! Easiest re-election he will ever have!

[KingCujo]

SNL - combined movie 2012 with Palin/Beck presidential win . True that!!!

[ThreeCrows]

Here is another point of view on Palin
http://bobbielwashington.blogspot.com/2009/11/sarah-palin-is-she-doomsday-device.html

[wendynyc]

so u think palin and obama are equal ...in terms of IQ

[mrskorn]

Maybe if Obama released some of his test scores and grades, we might know.

[mydwyf]

We do know that he was editor of the Harvard Law Review ('C' students need not apply)
and graduated Summa Cum Laude (but you probably don't know what that means)

[somniferum]

Obama was constitutional law professor at University of Chicago for 12 years. His academic credentials are not in question. Test scores and grades are private information. Why don't you release the tree your grades were scratched on from homeschool?

[mrskorn]

And Obama said there were 57 states. Either they are both confused or you can see that people make mistakes sometimes. Big deal.

[deadelephant2]

You're right! Sarah Palin in entitled to a few small mistakes. We can control what goes into Iraq, just like she shrewdly opines in her rational foreign policy argument. We just tell France and Great Britain and those other South American countries what they should be doing, stop sending Amedinijad supplies to the palace in her capitol in Yemen or we shut down the main highway from Chile to New Zealand!

[DrSamPHD]

Right, comparing Obama's obvious mistake to Sarah Palin's complete lack of knowledge. Nice one.

[notyouraveragebear]

Sarah Palin confused?


DUH!!!

[Whinger]

Ya know, Iran and Iraq, two big cities east of Texas, I can see them from my upstairs bedroom!