It doesn't matter that Sarah Palin couldn't answer Charlie Gibson's question about the Bush Doctrine, because she is the Bush Doctrine. [media id=63
September 15, 2008

It doesn't matter that Sarah Palin couldn't answer Charlie Gibson's question about the Bush Doctrine, because she is the Bush Doctrine.

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Stewart: "Now I know her detractors will say that Palin actually supported the bridge until it became a political albatross and ended up keeping a lot of the money for it anyway; That she claimed to have visited Iraq when she really didn't; Or that she didn't really sell that plane on eBay; Or that she left the town she was mayor of $20 million dollars in debt; And that she made sure that women who were raped were charged for their rape kits."

[Audience boos]

Stewart: "Yea. Yea, it's f*cking true."

[...]

Stewart: She doesn't need to know the Bush Doctrine -- she is the Bush Doctrine. Her foreign policy experience consists of being able to see Russia from an island in Alaska. And a refueling layover in Ireland.

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