Posts Tagged ‘Sarah Palin interview’

Or maybe it’s a quest for mediocrity. Either way, we’re ahead. Some thoughts on Sarah Palin:
Palin’s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League.
No one hates saying that more than I do. Like so many women, I’ve [...]

COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? … Instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?
…
PALIN: Ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that [...]

I guess Sarah Palin’s handlers told her that when Charlie Gibson asks her about her bridge to nowhere lie, she should respond by talking about “infrastructure.” They apparently also told her to say that the “earform, uh, earmark” system is an awful, awful thing and ignore her own waist-deep participation in it. She did and [...]

Here’s Sarah Palin trying to figure out what the Bush Doctrine is, presenting her foreign policy bona fides (“you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska!”), threatening Russia with war, and generally being defensive (Charlie, Charlie, Charlie) and trying to run out the clock because she doesn’t know what she’s talking about. 

She’s still [...]

Sarah Palin is now the Republican nominee for vice president.  She has never done an interview as a national candidate.
Yesterday, sassy muckraker Matt Drudge reported that Oprah Winfrey, an Obama supporter, has refused to have Palin on her show. He posted this item:
BIG DILEMMA: OPRAH BALKS AT HOSTING SARAH PALIN; STAFF DIVIDED Fri Sep 05 [...]