Palin ready to make up with media

Sarah Palin, who has blasted the liberal media elite at almost every opportunity, is apparently ready to make up and let bygones be bygones.

In her first TV interview since what her campaign sees as a successful debate Thursday night, Palin told Fox News Channel today that she promises "to not being so annoyed and impatient with mainstream media. And I will make that commitment because I do understand that that is how I speak to the American people in a position like this. I speak to you and through you and that way, that message is received by American people."

"So, I apologize for the response that I gave through that interview on a couple of questions," she continued. "I'm going to try harder. But I would ask also then, that the media tries a little bit harder also. And that this is a two-way street. That there's fairness. Just objectivity and fairness and truth. That's all Americans ask for. I look forward to speaking to the media more and more everyday and providing whatever access the media would want. My life is certainly an open book.”

At the same time, she managed to get in a jab or two at CBS and Katie Couric, whose series of interviews with Palin raised doubts even among Republicans about her preparedness for the big stage. The Alaska governor appeared to have trouble saying why the state's proximity to Russia qualified her on foreign policy grounds, which newspapers and books she read, and which Supreme Court decisions she opposes.

"The Sarah Palin in those interviews is a little bit annoyed," Palin said, according to a transcript provided by Fox News. "Because it's like, no matter what you say, you're going to get clobbered. If you cease to answer a question, you're going to get clobbered on the answer. If you choose to try to pivot and go on to another subject that you believe that Americans want to hear about, you get clobbered for that, too.”

“But, in the Katie Couric interviews, I did feel that there were a lot of things that she was missing, in terms of an opportunity to ask what a V.P. candidate stands for. What the values are represented in our ticket.”

“So, I guess I have to apologize for being a bit annoyed. But, that's also an indication of being outside of that Washington elite, outside of the media elite, also. And just getting to talk to Americans without the filters and let them know what we stand for.”

Palin also said she had fun during Thursday night's debate with Democrat Joe Biden.

“It was a great opportunity to get to speak directly to Americans. That's how I looked at it when I walked into there saying, you know, we're not going to be filtered. There's not going to be the cutting and pasting and editing of any of our comments. Right on. Let me just talk to Americans.”

She apologized for mistaking the name of General David D. McKiernan, the US commanding general in Afghanistan.

She added, "There just wasn't enough time either, 90 minutes in a debate sounds like that's going to be a heck of a lot of time to get a lot of words in and countering each other's records. And there wasn't enough time to go through everything that I wanted to go through.”