Palin on Palin impersonators: I'm creating jobs

Sarah Palin says she hopes people find something better to do than watch a new HBO movie about her role in the 2008 presidential campaign, but in either case, at least she's helping the economy.

"I think we're going to call that a Sarah Palin employment act and you guys need to thank me for employing more people probably in their imitations of Sarah Palin than the president has put Americans to work," the former Republican vice presidential candidate told "Fox News Sunday."

"Game Change," the film version of the book by MSNBC regulars John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, stars Julianne Moore as Palin and Ed Harris as Arizona Sen. John McCain. The movie comesout next month.

Thebook -- and film, which chronicle the selection of Palin as McCain's running mate through Election Night 2008 --claim the former Alaska governor was near breaking down during the campaign, especiallyleading up to the debate against then-Sen. Joe Biden.

Palin said that never happened.

"Iwas never in a funk," she said.

Palin, who joked "Must we?" when asked to watch the trailer, would not comment on Moore's performance, but said the film is "based on a false narrative" and a distraction from more important issues. She said she was not angry about the film, merely "ambivalent."

"I'm sorry that millions of people are going to waste their time, and I'm sure that they have more productive and constructive things to do," she said. "I honestly will not waste my time watching it and I enco! urage ot hers to find something else more productive to do."

On a more positive note, Palin, who recently wrote an article for Newsweek about her son, Trig, who is four years old and has Down syndrome, said she was inspired by Rick Santorum's decision to leave the Republican presidential campaign trail to spend time with his daughter Bella, a three-year-old, special-needs child who was recently hospitalized with pneumonia. Bella has since recovered.

"I thought that was a beautiful gesture and a wonderful public testimony of putting family first," she said.

Palin added that Trig, who wakes up every morning and applauds, puts perspective into her life.

"He teaches us more than we're ever going to be able to teach him. And that is one thing that he does. He looks around, and it seems to me that he's saying, despite what the world's going to throw at him and anybody else who may be considered disadvantaged, he applauds the day, like, 'Come on world; show me what you got and I'm going to handle it,'" she said.

Palin said this point in time in her family's life "couldn't be any better" because it is grounded "when we see and touch and are surrounded by such love coming from this child."

"Keeps everything in perspective and allows just, kind of, all the rest of the stuff on the periphery to just go away and not matter so much, when we get to focus on this blessing," Palin said.