The nadir of Sarah Palin’s political career was likely her gaffe- ridden 2008 sitdown with CBS news anchor Katie Couric.

The fallout from that interview – and Palin’s roundly mocked assertion that her state’s proximity to Russia enhanced her foreign-policy credentials – sent the John McCain/Palin ticket into a tailspin. Ever since, Palin’s supporters have regarded Couric as a nemesis.

Two years later, they are beginning to hit back with choppy raw footage of what appears to be Couric’s first ever broadcast about Palin in late August 2008.

In it, Couric is running over her script about the newly famous Alaska governor at the Republican Party’s National Convention in Minnesota.

Couric struggles mightily with the pronunciation of Wasilla, Palin’s hometown. More controversially, she stumbles over the names of Palin’s youngest and eldest children – Trig and Track.

“Her oldest son, Track . . . ” – and here Couric stops, looks up at her crew and squints – “. . . Where the hell do they get these names?”

Palin’s five children, in order of birth, are named Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper and Trig.

What little controversy may exist in all five minutes of tape begins and ends with that statement.

According to Politico, the video has been circulated by “Palin allies,” though the former politician herself has, as yet, said nothing.