Uh oh. It looks like the ongoing horror movie series otherwise known as the Katie Couric-Sarah Palin interviews may be about to offer up yet another gristly installment.

The other day, Politico's Jonathan Martin quoted an anonymous Palin aide who was worried about still-undisclosed interview footage in which Palin noted Roe vs. Wade but was unable to reference or discuss any other major court cases.

"There was no verbal fumbling with this particular question as there was with some others, the aide said, but rather silence," Martin wrote.

That was an anonymous account. And CBS News has refused to publicly confirm it. But a few moments ago, CBS News released the text of a couple questions (but not the answers) that Palin has been asked on interview footage that's set to air tonight. And sure enough, one of them is...

Why do you think Roe v. Wade is a good or bad decision? What other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with?

Dum. Da Dum, Dum. Viewers with weak stomachs, consider yourselves warned...

Sarah Palin has an answer to her media critics who say she isn't fit to be next in line for the presidency: They hate me because I represent the average "Joe Six-Pack" American.

Palin called in yesterday for a brief interview on the Hugh Hewitt radio show, and had this eminently quotable exchange:

Hewitt: Governor, your candidacy has ignited extreme hostility, even some hatred on the left and in some parts of the media. Are you surprised? And what do you attribute this reaction to?

Palin: Oh, I think they're just not used to someone coming in from the outside saying you know what? It's time that normal Joe six-pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency, and I think that that's kind of taken some people off guard, and they're out of sorts, and they're ticked off about it.

Well, it's true that Palin has taken some members of the press off guard, but not for the reasons she suggests...

Late Update: There was also this interesting line about bias by the media and the left against her religion:

Palin: I think that there's a lot of mocking of my personal faith, and my personal faith is very, very simple. I don't belong to any church. I do have a strong belief in God, and I believe that I'm a heck of a lot better off putting my life in God's hands, and saying hey, you know, guide me... And you know, so bet it, though I do have respect for those who have differing views than I do on faith, on religion. I'm not going to mock them, and I would hope that they would kind of I guess give me the same courtesy through this of not mocking a person's faith, but maybe perhaps even trying to understand a little bit of it.

Have any prominent members of the mainstream media mocked Palin's faith? Does anyone know what she's talking about?

In the latest installment of the ongoing horror movie otherwise known as Sarah Palin's interviews with CBS News, John McCain just made a cameo appearance -- and blamed Palin's recent Pakistan flub on "gotcha journalism," even though her screw-up came with an ordinary voter.

CBS just aired Couric's joint interview with both McCain and Palin, and asked the two about her statement over the weekend to a voter in a Philadelphia fast food joint that we should reserve the right to cross into Pakistan to chase down terrorists -- a position that McCain has criticized Barack Obama for expressing out loud.

In the interview, Couric asked McCain if Palin should have given voice to this, and he replied...

"Of course not. But, look, I understand this day and age `gotcha' journalism. Is that a pizza place? In a conversation with someone who you didn't hear ... the question very well, you don't know the context of the conversation. Grab a phrase. Gov. Palin and I agree that you don't announce that you're going to attack another country."

It's unclear what McCain is complaining about here. Is he really trying to excuse Palin's flub with the silly excuse that she was the victim of gotcha journalism? She was asked a question by a citizen. And McCain has repeatedly railed against Obama for refusing to face the voters with him in town hall meetings. Back in June, McCain called on Obama to join him in a "direct conversation with voters."

What's more, should reporters really not report public statements that Palin makes to voters about matters of international policy, simply because she made them to ordinary citizens? In this particular exchange, she revealed -- again -- that she knows absolutely nothing about the finer points of foreign policy, let alone her own running-mate's positions on it. That's news. Rather important news.

Apologies for using the cliche again, but it's irresistible: If Palin is so incapable of answering questions from ordinary citizens in fast-food joints that reporters should politely look the other way when she interacts with voters, how can she stand up to Al Qaeda?

CBS News has just released an advance excerpt of Katie Couric's interview with Sarah Palin, to air tonight, and in it, Palin appears to say that we may be headed for another Great Depression if Congress doesn't pass a bailout package:

COURIC: If this doesn't pass, do you think there's a risk of another Great Depression?

PALIN: Unfortunately, that is the road that America may find itself on. Not necessarily this as it's been proposed has to pass or we're gonna find ourselves in another Great Depression. But there has got to be action taken, bipartisan effort -- Congress not pointing fingers at this point at -- at one another but -- finding the solution to this -- taking action, and being serious about the reforms on Wall Street that are needed.

Palin hedges a bit here. But even so, she's saying that whatever the bailout package ends up being, not passing it risks leading to another Great Depression. That would seem to make it a bit tougher for McCain to vote against it.

We tend to shy away from posting Web vids. But this one's worth a look, because it's a pretty powerful effort to use Sarah Palin's Bush Doctrine gaffe to frame her experience deficit in starkly emotional terms.

The message is that we should be afraid, very, very afraid, of the specter of Palin as commander-in-chief...

The video is the work of the National Security Network, the progressive think tank started by former Bush counter-terrorism official Rand Beers.

It features all the trappings of a GOP fearmongering ad, complete with visuals of missiles and audio of a scary heartbeat. If those 527s ever do gear up on the Dem side, this is the sort of stuff we'll probably be seeing more of.

There's a spirited debate going on this morning over whether it matters that Sarah Palin betrayed a clear lack of knowledge of the Bush Doctrine during last night's ABC News interview.

Richard Starr of The Weekly Standard (via Ben Smith) suggests it wasn't a big deal because the Bush Doctrine has no universally acknowledged single meaning.

But Joe Klein counters that it shows that "this woman clearly doesn't know what she's talking about." Matthew Yglesias wonders whether John McCain even bothered talking to Palin about her foreign policy views before picking her as back-up commander-in-chief. And James Fallows points out that it betrays a minimal to non-existent interest in world affairs.

Here's my take. The issue here isn't just that Palin didn't know what the Bush Doctrine was. It's that she didn't appear to comprehend the notion that there's such a thing as foreign policy doctrine at all.

The key exchange occurred when Charlie Gibson asked her what she interpreted the Bush Doctrine to be, and she replied, "his world view, you mean?"

Clearly, Palin didn't grasp what Gibson meant by the word "doctrine" as used in a foreign policy context. She didn't grasp that he was probing her on the question of overarching foreign policy vision -- what set of intellectual guidelines should govern America's conduct in the world and define how we view one of the central moral challenges of our time: Deciding on what constitutes proper use of our overwhelming military power abroad.

This was driven home when Gibson defined the Bush Doctrine for her and Palin responded not with any kind of discussion of the doctrine itself but with boilerplate about Bush's hunt for terrorists.

Does Palin even know that competing foreign policy visions or doctrines exist and that the clash between them is one of the key things this election is all about? Does she even know that articulating and implementing such a vision is, you know, part of what a presidential administration does? Sure doesn't look like it.

The first round of Charlie Gibson's interview with Sarah Palin has just been posted over at ABC's site, and as expected, it's pretty dispiriting stuff:

GIBSON: Governor, let me start by asking you a question that I asked John McCain about you, and it is really the central question. Can you look the country in the eye and say "I have the experience and I have the ability to be not just vice president, but perhaps president of the United States of America?"

PALIN: I do, Charlie, and on January 20, when John McCain and I are sworn in, if we are so privileged to be elected to serve this country, we'll be ready. I'm ready.

GIBSON: And you didn't say to yourself, "Am I experienced enough? Am I ready? Do I know enough about international affairs? Do I -- will I feel comfortable enough on the national stage to do this?"

PALIN: I didn't hesitate, no.

GIBSON: Didn't that take some hubris?

PALIN: I -- I answered him yes because I have the confidence in that readiness and knowing that you can't blink, you have to be wired in a way of being so committed to the mission, the mission that we're on, reform of this country and victory in the war, you can't blink. So I didn't blink then even when asked to run as his running mate.

Wretched. The rest here.