Does She Not Understand What Unethical Means?

8 Despicable Sarah Palin Quotes #6

I’m very, very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing ... any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that.

Perhaps the prom queen is a pathological liar? How can the above quote be interpreted as anything other than a lie? The prom queen was discussing a report into her alleged abuses of office, specifically the dismissal of Walt Monegan, the former Alaska Public Safety Commissioner. The scandal has become known as TrooperGate. The report was the result of that investigation. What was the conclusion of the investigators? According to the New York Times ...

“Such impermissible and repeated contacts,” the report states, “create conflicts of interests for subordinate employees who must choose to either please a superior or run the risk of facing that superior’s displeasure and the possible consequences of that displeasure.” The report concludes that the action was a violation of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.

It would seem to me that when you have committed a violation of an Ethics Act ... well ... wouldn't that mean that you were not, in fact, "cleared ... of any kind of unethical activity there"? While I don't think much of the prom queen's intellect, I do believe that she understands the difference between unethical and ethical. I'm forced to conclude that the above quote is just another lie in a long line of lies, and that while she understands the difference between ethical and unethical activity, she just doesn't care.