Sarah Palin Slams Michelle Obama On Fox News Over Defense Of Husband's Presidency (VIDEO)

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin tore into Michelle Obama on Fox News Wednesday, criticizing the first lady for what she characterized as a recent condescending defense of her husband's presidency.

"Oh Lord. Oh Lord! Are we just numbskulls out here in the heartland of America? Just a bunch of numbskulls who can't read the unemployment numbers and see that 5 trillion dollars in new debt later under her husband, President Obama, five trillion dollars more, and we still have fewer jobs today than we had before he took over," Palin said, responding to a clip of Mrs. Obama claiming that some people are "confused" about the president's real accomplishments. "But, we're numbskulls out here and we just don't understand what these numbers mean, what they represent."

(Video above via Mediaite)

Michelle Obama's comments came earlier this week during an interview with CBS' Gayle King in which the first lady found herself playing defense on a couple issues.

Asked by King to respond to claims in a new book that suggested there was friction between her and former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Obama was dismissive, much like the White House had been in an earlier statement.

"I guess it's more interesting to imagine this conflicted situation here and a strong woman and -- you know?" she said. "But that's been an image that people have tried to paint of me since the day Barack announced, that I'm some angry black woman."

In a previous statement, the White House referred to the account as "an overdramatization of old news ... about a relationship between two people whom the author has not spoken to in years."

Earlier on HuffPost:

Comments

[helorisc]

07:42 PM on 03/04/2012

palin all you know how to do is run your mouth

[helorisc]

07:39 PM on 03/04/2012

palin you're a non factor

[helorisc]

07:34 PM on 03/04/2012

plain go rent the move the Help

[marcojazz]

10:30 PM on 02/19/2012

obamas economy numbers are as phony as his phony smile

[joan nassar]

07:28 AM on 01/27/2012

sarah palin why you didn;t
get elected so why you talk so much maybe that is why you are just a lip professior

[onionboy]

12:31 PM on 01/25/2012

"Are we just numbskulls out here in the heartland of America?"

The first thing she needs is a geography lesson.

I spent my childhood in the heartland of America and Alaska was thousands of miles away.

[Michael Samra]

06:20 PM on 01/23/2012

Does the truth hurt that much?

[dublin okarra]

01:52 PM on 01/23/2012

I curse and blame that old idiot from Arizona for ever introducing this woman to the American people...now look at way she keeps annoying us over and over and over!

[leftylou]

01:28 PM on 01/23/2012

michelle obama = classy

sarah palin = no class

[jms150766]

12:55 PM on 01/23/2012

To hear Sarah darling, you would think that Barack Obama single handedly started two wars and crashed the investment banking system. Sarah and others might do well to study the Great Depression and the amounts of money invested across a decade to end the unemployment. As we know, reading isn't Sarah's area of strength. Evidently, neither is considered rhetoric and sensible thought.

[Thirdstone]

12:53 PM on 01/23/2012

"Oh Lord. Oh Lord! Are we just numbskulls out here in the heartland of America?"

"Oh Lord. Oh Lord! We are just numbskulls out here in the heartland of America!"

Fixed it for you.

[RockyMissouri]

11:00 AM on 01/25/2012

Beautiful....except she must have flunked geography..

[t-boy42]

11:37 AM on 01/23/2012

I feel dumber for reading this

[warmonkey]

10:42 AM on 01/23/2012

Sarah- you are not fit to buckle our First Ladys shoe. Your opinions are as ignorant as you are. Go home and skin some rabbits- or pray for nuclear anihalation and the rapture- or whatever you like to do there.....make some mooseburgers, your family needs a Mother.

[Ex-Fed]

10:31 AM on 01/23/2012

I think Sarah has joined the ranks of the other famous for no good reason types, like the kardashians, octomom, and joe the plumber. Move along now, nothing to see here...

[Siara]

10:24 AM on 01/23/2012

A classic case of "brain envy"