If you're gonna strap on your stilettos and take off the gloves -- or whatever her combative wardrobe maneuver is -- at least own up to what you're doing and take responsibility for it.

In what was apparently her first local TV interview, Sarah Palin told Keith Cate of WFLA in Tampa yesterday that her Ayers line of attack on Obama was just her response to the "news of the day" from the New York Times: