Tune in for More Sarah Palin-Katie Couric? This Time, It's Roe v. Wade

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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is safely tucked away in Sedona, Arizona, preppring for her debate with U.S. Sen. Joe Biden under the watchful eyes of senior officals from U.S. Sen. John McCain's campaign and the Bush Administration.

According to a report by Politico's Jonathan Martin, after a series of serious media fumbles, Palin is going to start being more aggressive and reintroducing herself to the American public by doing more media interviews, this time with decidely friendly, conservative talk radio hosts.

According to Martin: 

To this end, Palin was far more aggressive in another interview with Couric today, this aide said

Sitting with McCain for their first joint interview a week after the widely panned sit-down with Couric, Palin interjected when the CBS anchor brought up a report about the Wasilla Assembly of God, the governor's childhood church and one she still attends at times, seeking to pray gays away from homosexuality.

"Sarah Barracuda showed up today," the aide said, reprising the feisty former point guard's high school basketball nickname and one that has been largely forgotten since her post-convention cosseting.

"We're encouraging CBS to run entire thing," the aide said of today's session. "Run it end to end online."

And while Sarah Barracuda may be back, there's still some unaired one-on-one Palin-Couric interview footage floating around out there and it has people talking:

Of concern to McCain's campaign, however, is a remaining and still-undisclosed clip from Palin's interview with Couric last week that has the political world buzzing.

The Palin aide, after first noting how "infuriating" it was for CBS to purportedly leak word about the gaffe, revealed that it came in response to a question about Supreme Court decisions.

After noting Roe vs. Wade, Palin was apparently unable to discuss any major court cases.

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

You can check out the joint interview McCain and Palin did with Couric here:

 

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