No joke. McCain staffers said they discovered during her debate prep that she literally did not know that North and South Korea were separate countries. She showed an appalling ignorance of the most basic geography and history in general. She also thought that Africa was a country, did not understand the basic structure of the federal government (they had to start with explaining “three branches” like it was a middle school social studies class), and thought that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11 (no kidding, she really thought we’d been attacked by Iraq and thought that was why we invaded it). She also didn’t care that she didn’t know these things and refused to be tutored on them. Hence her tactic of just pretending any question she doesn’t know the answer to is a “gotcha.”
It’s like she has the mentality and temperment of a high school cheerleader.