Am I flirting?

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Even if Sarah Palin is Smiling

Apropos of item no. 18:
The three talked late into the night. Schmidt and Salter probed and pressed and looked for gaps between her views and McCain’s. Palin shrugged off substantive differences. “What’s the big darn deal?” she asked, smiling and, in her frontier-girl way, half defying, half flirting with her interrogators. - Newsweek

No, America. Sarah Palin, for all the “probing” and “pressing,” was not flirting with you.