Long known as a cunning politician with meticulous attention to detail, Sarah Palin is furious that somehow Sacha Baron Cohen tricked her into "a long 'interview' full of Hollywoodism’s disrespect and sarcasm," she wrote in a Facebook post this week.

As Palin writes:

This "legit opportunity" to honor American Vets and contribute to a “legit Showtime historical documentary” was requested of me via a speakers bureau.

For my interview, my daughter and I were asked to travel across the country where Cohen (I presume) had heavily disguised himself as a disabled US Veteran, fake wheelchair and all. Out of respect for what I was led to believe would be a thoughtful discussion with someone who had served in uniform, I sat through a long "interview" full of Hollywoodism’s disrespect and sarcasm - but finally had enough and literally, physically removed my mic and walked out, much to Cohen’s chagrin. The disrespect of our US military and middle-class Americans via Cohen’s foreign commentaries under the guise of interview questions was perverse.

It's unclear how long she sat through the interview before figuring it out and "literally, physically removed" (???) her mic. It's also interesting that she failed to do any research into this documentary that she says was described as "a legit Showtime historical documentary"—because any legit documentary must point out that it's legit.

Anyway, she continues:

Mock politicians and innocent public personalities all you want, if that lets you sleep at night, but HOW DARE YOU mock those who have fought and served our country.

Truly sick.

And as an aside, for further insight into the wealthy corporate enablers of this kind of “joke”, I’ll add that after great costs on our part in time and resources to contribute to their “documentary” the Cohen/CBS/Showtime production team purposefully dropped my daughter and me off at the wrong Washington, DC airport after the fake interview, knowing we’d miss all flights back home to Alaska. After refusing to take our calls to help get us out of the bind they’d put us in for three days, I wrote this off as yet another example of the sick nature that is media-slash-entertainment today.

In closing, Palin says, her daughter thinks Cohen is "a piece of ****." Which is it, though? Shit? Poop? Heck?

And Palin isn't the only one Cohen has tricked.

Joe Walsh, noted radio personality who was briefly removed from the air for making racial and ethnic slurs, was also the subject of a Cohen interview.

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I totally believe @SarahPalinUSA's account of the @SachaBaronCohen incident. Dressing up as a wounded veteran is absolutely stolen valor, his tactics are disguisting - I know cause I too was duped. Here is what happened...#BoycottShowtime — Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) July 11, 2018

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I was invited to a pro-Israel dinner that honored defenders of Israel. The producers said they needed to film a pre-interview that would air as a part of Israel’s 70th birthday celebration. #BoycottShowtime — Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) July 11, 2018

Meanwhile, according to various reports, Cohen has also done interviews with Howard Dean, Alberto Gonzales, and Bernie Sanders, among others.

His mysterious new show, Who Is America? debuts on Sunday on Showtime, who is probably thrilled about all this free press from angry conservatives.

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