Sarah Palin returned to Fox News this morning, via a visit to Fox & Friends. Clearly, not much has changed. It was, to borrow a phrase from Joe Biden, noun, verb, "lamestream media," or noun, verb, "freedom," all over again.  Only now we can add “Christmas” because Palin says she’s writing a book about the holiday, "kind of a legalese how to ...pushing back on the politically correct who would try to take Christ out of Christmas.” 

In her Fox & Friends appearance, at Mediaite, Steve Doocy fed Palin her “lamestream media” schtick opening by declaring, “Bias alert! CBS News just compared the Iranian new president to the Tea Party during a newscast!” Actually, what CBS reporter Elizabeth Palmer said in the clip that followed was that the new president is “very conservative. In U.S. terms, it was as if all the candidates for the presidency came from the Tea Party.”

Everyone on the curvy couch was so excited at the opportunity to bash CBS that nobody pointed out how mild that is compared to the language used every day on Fox about President Obama, Democrats and anyone else they don’t like.

But Palin, leaning forward, sneered, “OK, Elizabeth, you just put the BS in CBS.” There were lots of chortles, of course. Palmer's remark, according to Palin, is why people “realize how out of touch the lamestream, the mainstream media is.”

In case you need a laugh, stick around for her next comments in which she lectures CBS’ Scott Pelly about “fairness” and “truth” that “we all learned, I think, studying journalism.”

As the discussion went on (see the video below), guest host Megyn Kelly asked, “What have you been up to? How are you?” Given how Kelly has slobbered over other Fox News faves, this was fairly restrained. Read into it what you will.

Palin answered:

I am doing great! I’m very busy of course with five kids, two beautiful grandkids. Writing a book, a book about Christmas and pushing back on the politically correct who would try to take Christ out of Christmas. We talk a lot about that in the book. Kind of a legalese how-to push back and protect the heart of Christmas – at the same time, a very festive and happy and jolly book about tradition and recipes and fun things about Christmas.

Hey, what happened to the health and fitness book she was supposedly writing last fall? Did she quit halfway through? Nobody asked.

Kelly did ask Palin about the various controversies plaguing the Obama administration: “Which is the one that concerns you the most?” Thereby feeding Palin her next noun, verb attack.

Reminiscent of Katie Couric, Palin answered, “They all – it’s the whole ball of wax.” However, she did go on to offer this “insight:”

With Benghazi, though, government lied and people died. So that’s very, very significant. The other issues are government lied and government spied. That’s pretty bad, too.

She added that Benghazi, where people died “in defense of our country, our freedoms, is quite significant because we still don’t have truth in regards to what happened there.”

Ding, ding, ding, there’s the “freedom” word Palin loves so much.

Just so long as you celebrate Christmas her way.

(4/21/19: Post updated because the Fox & Friends video is no longer embeddable.)