Listen to Palin's spokesperson, Meg Stapleton, talk complete batshit about why Palin is quitting/stepping down with Anderson Cooper.

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Check out this video from bunker75. Anderson Cooper, in rare form, takes down Sarah Palin's spokeswoman, Meg Stapleton:

Raw Story has a summary of the reporting on this. There is simply no way that the GOP frontrunner for president is suddenly announcing her resignation, late on a Friday, the day before a major holiday - the traditional times to dump damaging information - if someone didn't confront her with devastating information. So an indictment sounds possible. Though, Palin doesn't strike me as the type to give up and resign simply because someone's coming after her. The information must be devastating and conclusive. Wonder if Palin's been to Argentina lately? :-) Actually, I was talking to Jane Hamsher this morning on our little puddle jumper out of the island of Gotland, and it struck me that maybe Palin is about to get indicted by the same folks who took down Ted Stevens. Remember, Stevens didn't win on the facts - he won because the lawyers at Justice screwed up. Those lawyers must have been ticked that their case fell apart based on a technicality, so to speak. What if the same influence peddling case involved Palin too? What if they went to Palin, showed their hand, and said "we're taking Todd down, unless you resign?" Anderson Cooper takes on Palin's spokeswoman, and pretty much makes mince-meat of her.

I think it's hysterical how all of her supporters are trying to make this out to be some calculated thought out decision when clearly the Lt. Governor looked like he had no idea this was happening when he woke up this morning and Palin's spokeswoman wasn't even in the state at the time of her press conference. I particularly loved when she continued to use the basketball metaphor after Anderson said he knew nothing about sports. The very purpose of a metaphor is to clarify something by putting it into different context. It just shows that she was not prepared to speak about anything that wasn't on her talking points. It's so refreshing to see that over the past year, we've returned to a form of journalistic integrity where people are asking tough questions, not pulling an punches and aren't lobbing any softballs. Personally, I think she decided to devote more time to watching those sneaky Russians from her backyard. See the resignation highlights below.

Anderson Cooper makes mincemeat of Sarah Palin's hapless spokesperson Meg Stapleton, who was in New York, not Alaska, at the time of Palin's sudden resignation. If he knew anything about basketball, the exchange might have been even worse for her....