Palin: I Goofed Up to Keep SNL in Biz

Just-kidding candidate blames 'trivial' questions for dicey interviews
By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 7, 2008 4:34 AM CDT

Sarah Palin's flubbed interviews were all part of her plan to safeguard America's Palin-lampooning industry, the candidate quipped at a Florida rally yesterday. Palin told supporters that the rocky moments in the Katie Couric interviews—including a failure to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with—came from annoyance with the "trivial" questions, reports the New York Daily News.

"I should have told them was I was just trying to keep Tina Fey in business—giving her more information," Palin told the cheering crowd. "Job security for SNL characters." (More Saturday Night Live stories.)

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