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Sarah Palin not happy with Time's 'person of the year' (+Video)

On Wednesday, former half-term governor of Alaska Sarah Palin put in her two cents concerning Time magazine's decision to name U.S. present Barack Obama "person of the year," according to Politico.

The Huffington Post reports that Palin "mocked Time magazine's decision" on Fox News telling "On the Record" host Greta van Susteren that the publication displayed its "irrelevancy" by choosing the second-term president as the 2012 figurehead. In the same breath, she made sure to note that Time had, after all, once named her among the 100 most influential people in the world.

In the video below, around the 4 minute and 30 second mark, Palin can be heard saying:

Susteren seems in on the joke -- "That's an interesting concept," she says.

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Craig Medred

Craig Medred is a former writer for the Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Dispatch and Alaska Dispatch News. He left the ADN in 2015.

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