Palin: Media Portrayal Would Be 'Prettier' If She'd Been Dem VP Candidate
Alaska Gov.: State of Mainstream Media Today Is 'Very Scary'
Palin Takes Aim at Couric and Fey
Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf said Palin's expectation that Kennedy would be given preferential treatment has turned out to be wrong.
"Caroline Kennedy is not being treated with kid gloves," Sheinkopf told ABCNews.com. He noted the exhaustive and often critical coverage of Kennedy's "lack of clarity in answering questions" and "inability to articulate."
Torie Clark, a former Bush aide and consultant to ABC News, agreed.
"I've been surprised by the negative coverage Kennedy's gotten," Clark said. "I don't get where she [Palin] sees a real disparity."
Palin also took aim at CBS anchor Katie Couric, whose interviews with the governor, as Palin said, "didn't go well."
One exchange during the Couric interview that was frequently replayed was Palin's halting answer when asked which newspapers she read. Palin eventually said, "All of them."
"To me, the question was more along the lines of 'Do you read?' 'What do you guys do up there?' 'What it is that you read?'" Palin told Ziegler. "Perhaps I was too flippant in my answer back to her. Of course I read newspapers, I read publications. I spend a lot of time of course reading our local papers ... but also USA Today and The New York Times.
"I never saw the interview after Katie edited it, spliced it together, whatever they did. My understanding is so many other topics that were brought up certainly weren't portrayed as accurately as they could have, should have been after that interview."
Palin's criticism took on a more personal tone when Ziegler showed Palin a clip of a "Saturday Night Live" skit in which Fey parodied her and made a joke about her then-pregnant teenage daughter.
"The mamma grizzly rises up in me hearing things like that," Palin said. "Cool. Fine. Come attack me, but when you make a suggestion like that, that attacks a kid, that kills me. It kills me."
Palin grouped both Couric and Fey in with "a lot of people that are capitalizing, perhaps exploiting" her.
Clark said she is not surprised Palin took aim at the media with such gusto.
"I do think she got roughed up some by several in the media," Clark said. "I'm sure she still has hard feelings about how she was treated by the media and by the campaign."
Those hard feelings seemed to bubble to the surface twice during the Jan. 5 interview when Palin watched a clip of a Couric interview on the "Late Show." The CBS News anchor asked why no journalist had ever repeated the newspaper question to Palin.
"Because, Katie, you're not the center of everybody's universe," Palin quipped. "Maybe that's why they didn't ask that question. There are so many other things to be asked."
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