Already on her presidential campaign for 2012, Sarah Palin sat for interview with filmmaker (propagandist?) John Ziegler to talk about how she and McCain lost to Obama-Biden. Right-winger Ziegler, who you'd expect to be a Palin sympathizer, is surprisingly now being attacked by Palin for supposedly taking her comments out of context in YouTube clips. But anyhow. Ziegler sat down with MSNBC's David Shuster to discuss the film, and they got caught up in whether it's appropriate to use the word "assassinate" to describe the media's treatment of Palin. Shuster, hoping to protect the institution of assassination, finds it unbelievable that Ziegler is okay using the word to describe how the press dealt with Palin. This, from the guy who finds it perfectly acceptable to denigrate the institution of prostitution by misappropriating the phrase "pimped out." Video below—which includes these two egomaniacs squabbling at the end.

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Nate Silver is finding new and interesting ways to continue his relevance after the election polls have become a thing of the past (for the next two years, anyway).

Silver's website, FiveThirtyEight is now going a different tactic than just analyzing poll data: he's gone straight for the inflammatory interview.

After conservative troll and documentary filmmaker John Ziegler found out that Silver was calling his anti-Obama questionnaires "push polls," the owner of HowObamaGotElected.com offered to grant Silver an interview, on the one condition that the whole transcript would be posted on FiveThirtyEight. Silver complied, and the results are hi-larious, as Ziegler starts out trying to bait Silver into a fight, and ended up blowing his wad with a heap of profanity.

Let's take a looksy, shall we?

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