Palin Wants Cohen Show Proceeds Donated to Vets

Former vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin is still angry over comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's fake interview with her, and she's calling for his new show's producers to donate its proceeds to veterans' groups.

"This comedian, he mocks gays, he mocks Jews, he does these other episodes where the intent is to humiliate," Palin told ABC "Good Morning America' co-host Robin Roberts. "It's to parody something that is important to an individual or an entity or group of people and, again, you know, if people do decide to tune in they'll hear about it anyway. If they tune in, well, the ill-gotten gains by CBS and Showtime, those, I say, need to be donated to people who deserve the gains."

Palin said earlier this week that she'd agred to the interview because she believed it was a "legit opportunity" to honor veterans, and discovered that Cohen"had heavily disguised himself as a disabled U.S. Veteran, fake wheelchair and all."

On Friday, she told Roberts that she had been told the interview was an opportunity to talk about veterans' issues and current events to a new audience.

"It was supposed to be this big-time Showtime documentary and it was passed on to me by a speaker's bureau which I would assume had done some vetting," Palin said. "This quote/unquote comedian is obviously very good at lying, at duping people because look at the long list now since I've come out and described my experience, all these other guys, all these men coming out now saying, oh, yeah, me too."

Cohen's character from the upcoming show posted a rebuttal to Palin through Twitter on Thursday, claiming that he didn't represent himself as a miltary veteran, but as a veteran of the United Parcel Service, and that he "fought for my country once — when I shot a Mexican who came onto my property."

Palin said Friday that she knew something was up after she realized that graphs and statistics she was being shown had typos in them, and when he "brought up Chelsea Clinton and said she was the recipient of a government-funded sex change."

"It just got worse and worse and worse as the minutes went on in this bizarre, really embarrassing, humiliating interview that, you know, it mocked middle class Americans," said Palin. "It mocked our values. It mocked the disabled and it just got worse and worse and, you know, it was occurring to me whatever this show is, whatever this interview really is is all about humiliation and devaluing middle class Americans whom I represent, so, yeah, I said enough was enough and I took off my mic and walked out and since then nobody returns my calls."

Palin said nobody from CBS or Showtime has returned her calls, and in fact, the production gave her team fake names for the people involved in the show, "so nobody has taken me up on my offer for them to donate the proceeds from this show to veterans organizations that truly support and respect our vets."

Cohen, she added, is a "proven liar" so nobody can believe what he said or his website.

"He thinks this kind of stuff is funny and mocking the disabled and mocking and belittling our vets with his portrayal," said Palin. "In my book it's not funny."

She agreed with Roberts that she may be playing into the hands of CBS and Showtime with her comments, but "if people tune in to the show then they're going to see how middle class Americans are mocked and our values are mocked."

Palin, also a former governor of Alaska, also discussed her political aspirations, and said she's thankful she still has a platform, as that's "proof that you don't need an office and a title to get out there and make a difference and stand up for what you really believe in and what you believe is going to help this country."

However, she said, she is "certainly always ready to go through an open door that perhaps is in my future to get out there and serve the public. I would love to."