Do Over! Palin Answers Katie Couric’s Questions … to Fox News’ Carl Cameron (She Reads The Economist, She Says)
EmailIn a post-debate interview today with Fox News’ chief political correspondent Carl Cameron, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin provided some of the answers that seemed to elude her in her past interview with Katie Couric.
Cameron told her that some observers, pleased with her debate performance, asked, "Where was this Sarah Palin in the interview with Katie Couric?"
"OK, I’ll tell you honestly," Palin said, "the Sarah Palin in those interviews is a little bit annoyed because it’s like, man, no matter what you say, you’re going to get clobbered. If you choose to answer a question, you are going to get clobbered on the answer. If you choose to try and pivot and go on to another subject that you believe that Americans want to hear about, you get clobbered for that, too."
Palin added, "In those Katie Couric interviews I did feel that there were a lot of things that she was missing in terms of an opportunity to ask what a vice presidential candidate stands for — what the values are represented in our ticket. I wanted to talk about Barack Obama increasing taxes, which would lead to killing jobs, wanted to talk about his proposal to increase government spending by another trillion dollars. Some of his comments that he has made about the war that I think may, in my world, disqualifies someone from consideration as the next commander in chief. … I wanted to talk about things like that. So, I guess I have to apologize about being a little annoyed, but that is also an indication of being outside that Washington elite, outside of the media elite, also, and just wanted to talk to Americans without the filter and let them know what we stand for."
"So, at the risk of annoying you," said Cameron, "when you are asked, ‘What do you read, which papers and magazines?’ You didn’t answer it. Or, you said, ‘I have all kinds of resources.’"
"Right, right, right," said Palin.
"Well, what do you read?" asked Cameron.
"I read the same things that other people across the country read, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and The Economist and some of these publications that we’ve recently even been interviewed through up there in Alaska. Because of everything that we’re doing with oil and gas, a lot of the investment publications, especially, are interviewing us, asking us how we are being so successful up there in contributing to our nation’s step towards energy independence…
"My response to her, I guess it was kind of flippant. But, I was sort of taken aback, like, the suggestion was, ‘You’re way up there in a far away place in Alaska, do you know that there are publications in the rest of the world that are read by many?’ And I was taken aback by that because, I don’t know, the suggestion just was a little bit of perhaps we’re not in tune with the rest of the world."
Cameron then asked another Couric question that Palin didn’t answer: about Supreme Court decisions that she disagrees with other than Roe v Wade. "As a conservative, there are some in the Republican Party who would expect a vice presidential nominee to understand judicial conservatives and to have something that they might object to," Cameron said.
"And that’s fair, right, and on that one, true, I shouldn’t have been so flippant and just sort of brushed aside that," Palin said, "because it was an important question and I should have answered it, and yeah, I can cite a lot of cases that I absolutely disagree with the Supreme Court on."
She elaborated: "A recent one, Kennedy v Louisiana, where the Supreme Court will tell a state that they can’t impose the death penalty even on the heinous crimes of repeat child rapists, that a state … its rights were taken away by the Supreme Court, and we would not be able to decide for ourselves whether the death penalty in a case like that could be implemented or not. That one, I’m certainly not a supporter of that decision."
Palin mentioned the Kelo case, also with the eminent domain — "that affects me as governor. It affected me as a mayor, also. Property rights are so precious in this nation and for the Supreme Court to have sided with government instead of the people, the property owners on that — that was frustrating. Another one … personally affecting me also, the Exxon Valdez oil spill. The siding with the oil companies, they decimated Alaska’s coastline and much of our fisheries and much of our coastal communities’ livelihoods of people who live there, and they sided with Exxon on the punishment — the punitive damage that was to be awarded, Exxon won on that one, and in a sense, that was frustrating."
Palin, asked about her relationship with the media, said, "What I need to do is commit to not be so annoyed and impatient with mainstream media. And I will make that commitment because I do understand that that is how I speak to the American people. In a position like this, I speak to you and through you, and that way, that message is received by American people. So, I apologize for the the, I guess, flippant response that I gave through that interview on a couple of questions.
"But I would ask also, then, that the media tries a little bit harder also," Palin went on. "And that this is a two-way street, that there is fairness, just objectivity and fairness and truth. That’s all Americans ask for."
"Objectivity?" Cameron asked. "Fairness?"
"As we send our young men and women overseas in a war zone to fight for democracy and freedoms, including freedom of the press, we’ve really got to have a mutually beneficial relationship here with those fighting the freedom of the press, and then the press, though not taking advantage and exploiting a situation, perhaps they would want to capture and abuse the privilege. We just want truth, we want fairness, we want balance."
- jpt
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This is a joke.
Its like taking an exam the 2nd time and knowing the answers to the questions in advance.
So what happens when she screws up her next non Fox news interview?
Or will there even be one?
Posted by: Ryan C | October 3, 2008, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm
Mainstream media? Uh, Fox News is the HIGHEST rated Cable news network on the air. How’s that NOT mainstream media?
It’s the typical right wing victim mindset; everyone is against us, oh boo hoo for small town Amurica.
Now, let’s see the beauty queen give a live, unscripted press conference for 60 minutes. No softballs, no lifelines, I want to hear her answer some questions about herself and her views of the world without Fake News holding her little hand showing her the deference she requires.
I mean, if she cannot answer simple questions from reporters, then how in the world can she handle insane world leaders in tense negotiations?
The Palin defenders claim her interviews with Couric were ‘edited’. And the Cameron interview wasn’t?
Palin is a complete case study in the mindset of wingnuts. She is grossly unprepared to be VP, but they think her not knowing anything is a positive sign because she’s “mainstream amurica”
Ok, by that logic, let’s just take some rube from Iowa and let him run the Apple corporation. Let’s find some small town, small minded trucker from Oklahoma, and have him peform brain surgery.
I mean, I like the guy from Oklahoma as a person, so who cares what his actual skills are? Being likable is all that counts.
For a talk show host maybe, not for the #2 in power of the USA.
Posted by: Stan | October 3, 2008, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm
This woman is a joke.
I find her disgusting and gleefully ignorant.
Posted by: Common Sense | October 3, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm
McCain campaign has turned this election to a comedy. I am sorry for the ignorance that is plaguing America.
Posted by: Wale A | October 3, 2008, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm
Now it is the worlds turn to ask Couric some questions.
The day of the newspaper question, Palin had just shipped her son off to Iraq.
The democratic party has become the party of hate and divisiveness. Many of us long time democrats are disgusted with the party and the media.
Palin’s performance in the debate would not have been allowed had the Couric’s had their way.
Posted by: today | October 3, 2008, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm
FOX News, the BushGOP media outlet. Come on Fox Sarah and we’ll let you make everything right. All those other big, bad journalists will ask you real questions and expect real answers. Don’t worry about us. We work for you.
Posted by: hopesprings52 | October 3, 2008, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm
Hey – breaking news P. Diddy has just relased a new video – ” he is afraid of Sarah Palin”. This should provide some very credible information concering Palin. I am sure all at or below the first grade level will be interested in P. Diddy’s comments.
Posted by: jamescbuilder | October 3, 2008, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm
Sorry, Sarah.
A day late and a dollar short.
Posted by: Blue in Michigan | October 3, 2008, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm
ST. LOUIS — Millions of Americans were watching Thursday night’s vice presidential debate, waiting for a demolition derby moment — another crash by GOP running mate Sarah Palin, another serving of raw material for the writers at “Saturday Night Live.”
By that standard, she got out alive, though there were white-knuckle moments along the way: questions that were answered with painfully obvious talking points that betrayed scant knowledge of the issue at hand and sometimes little relevance to the question that had been asked.
But recent days have given John McCain’s team little reason to suppose that not-that-bad is good enough. The Republican ticket’s sliding polls and narrowing electoral map gave it a different imperative in Palin’s showdown against Joe Biden. That was to alter the trajectory of the race in a way reminiscent of how Palin first enlivened Republicans — it seems long ago now — when she joined the ticket in late August.
Absent new polling, there is little reason to think she cleared that bar in St. Louis.
To the contrary, it is hard to count any objective measures by which Biden did not clearly win the encounter. She looked like she was trying to get people to take her seriously. He looked like he was running for vice president. His answers were more responsive to the questions, far more detailed and less rhetorical.
On at least 10 occasions, Palin gave answers that were nonspecific, completely generic, pivoted away from the question at hand, or simply ignored it: on global warming, an Iraq exit strategy, Iran and Pakistan, Iranian diplomacy, Israel-Palestine (and a follow-up), the nuclear trigger, interventionism, Cheney’s vice presidency and her own greatest weakness.
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Asked which is a greater threat, a nuclear Pakistan or a nuclear Iran, Palin seemed to be stalling, or writing a term paper, when she said: “An armed, nuclear armed especially Iran is so extremely dangerous to consider.”
Biden was crisper, with a dose of realism: “Iran getting a nuclear weapon would be very, very destabilizing. They are more than — they are not close to getting a nuclear weapon that’s able to be deployed.”
Biden relentlessly and clearly delivered a specific message he had been assigned to hammer home: McCain-Palin would be four more years of Bush-Cheney. Biden mentioned President Bush more than a dozen times.
“Look, past is prologue, Gwen,” he said at one point. “The issue is, how different is John McCain’s policy going to be than George Bush’s? I haven’t heard anything yet.”
By contrast, Palin was in much more of a survival mode, barely delivering on her advisers’ hopes that she would be aggressive with Biden, throwing gaffes and policies back at him. For the Alaska governor, it was policy as a second language — adequate but not enlightening.
She twice referred to the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David McKiernan, as “McClellan.” Biden did not correct her.
Washington power lawyer Robert Barnett, who helped Biden prepare, said viewers would come away with the sense that Palin “is a nice person, an interesting person but not a qualified-to-be-the-president-of-the-United-States person.”
Biden, he said, “was anecdotal, was a little bit emotional” and showed “professionalism, preparation and knowledge.”
Of course, there is long experience at this point showing that it is the subjective measures — who strikes more voters as more appealing, more genuine, more plausible — on which these encounters turn.
On this ground, both candidates had their moments.
From the moment she blew a kiss as she walked onstage, the Alaska governor was folksy and spunky, dropping a “bless their hearts” here, a “God bless ‘er” there and “darn right” — twice. She showed a cheerful confidence that must have been hard to muster after the humiliating coverage of her amateurish interviews with Katie Couric of the “CBS Evening News.”
Biden offered a fluent, self-assured performance of the sort that cannot be especially hard for him after two presidential campaigns, 35 years in the Senate and countless appearances on Sunday morning programs. People impressed by references to legislation, or citations of his record in world hot spots from Bosnia to Darfur, got these in spades.
Posted by: Jess | October 3, 2008, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm
“The day of the newspaper question, Palin had just shipped her son off to Iraq.”
Track’s deployment ceremony was 9/11.
The 2nd Couric interview(in which the newspapers question was asked) took place last week when Palin was in town to meet with leaders at the UN.
As always, right wingers are liars.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 3, 2008, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm
Palin on Fox is an infomercial. Since the McCain camp is so thrilled with her debate performance – please schedule her for the Sunday Talk Shows and interviews with other news outlets. Follow-up questions are not “gotcha” questions if you know what the heck you are talking about.
Posted by: Paige | October 3, 2008, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm
It’s too bad that Palin doesn’t just confine herself to Fox News. I don’t watch Fox news, so that would be great for me. Her tinny voice is like chalk screeching on a chalkboard.
Posted by: Trent | October 3, 2008, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm
Both the Gibson and Couric interviews were obviously “gotcha” or “pop-quiz” journalism designed with media bias and arrogance.
Whether you are Republican, Democrat, or Independent, viewers should demand a standard of journalism from people like Gibson and Couric that goes beyond tabloid tactics.
The candidates were graded on their debate performances, so let’s do the same for Gibson and Couric on their interview journalism.
Gibson – D
Couric – D-
Posted by: Palin Wins | October 3, 2008, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm
Gosh it only took her what 4 or 5 days to get the right answers to the simple straight foreward questions asked by KAtie Couric? Amazing. By the way did anyone else notice that she misidentified Army Gen. David D. McKiernan, commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, as “McClellan”. I believe he was a General during the CIvil War for the North. He was not very good either.
Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 3, 2008, 3:12 pm 3:12 pm
Hey, she does as fine in interview (if by “interviews” you mean “second changes to answer yesterday’s questions”) as she does in debates (if by “debates” you mean 90 second sound bites strung together so that solid mastery of index cards is sufficient to perform well).
Posted by: Edwin | October 3, 2008, 3:12 pm 3:12 pm
She makes W look smart by comparison.
Posted by: Ed from MA | October 3, 2008, 3:12 pm 3:12 pm
Palin didn’t understand the point of the interviews was to let people know where she stands – not to defer attention back on the opposition – and now we know – she doesn’t know anything specific — she’s lucky Couric didn’t ask her even toughter questions like about her signing the budget to make rape victims pay for rape kits, the installation of tanning booth at the governors mansion, the use of per diems when she was at home, the firing of people who sign loyalty agreements to her, the $20 million debt she left Wasila, or aggressive requests for Federal earmarks even though her entire campaign is built on being against them – no – I think “What magazines do you read” was a pretty easy question all things considered –
Posted by: beck | October 3, 2008, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm
The media saw a much different debate than the rest of the country.
If she cannot stay on track and answer a question or choose what questions she wants to answer, how does that help ?
Why does the media think they must boost her up? Are they thinking we are stupid?
Don’t make decisions based on what you hear from the media, they are only trying to boost ratings..
Posted by: l | October 3, 2008, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm
This is fine, she corrected her errors in the Couric interview…
Too bad you can’t get a mulligan when you’re in front of the red button. Fox News can’t correct her mistakes if she is VP…Sorry
Posted by: PoliticsAsUsual | October 3, 2008, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm
Is it a ‘do over’, or would this be considered ‘getting back to us’?
Posted by: Deep Release | October 3, 2008, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm
I agree. She is disgusting and ignorant.
She must think we are all stupid.
Posted by: Karen miller | October 3, 2008, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm
Sorry Sarah VP nominees and potentioal POTUS candidates do not get do overs. You are not in highschool anymore.
Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 3, 2008, 3:16 pm 3:16 pm
“Both the Gibson and Couric interviews were obviously “gotcha” or “pop-quiz” journalism designed with media bias and arrogance.”
What newspapers do you read is a gotcha question?
Only if someone is an idiot.
Was can you name a Supreme Court decision you disagree with a gotcha question?
Only if someone is an idiot.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 3, 2008, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm
Hey Palin Wins,
Gibson and Couric aren’t running for office. Palin is. Nice way of shooting the messenger, buddy.
ALL questions asked to politicians are gotcha questions. You think once you are VP, that somehow you won’t face harder, more difficult situations?
If you cannot handle a simple question from a TV reporter without sounding like a complete ignoramus, then how in the hell can you work 18 hour days for 4 years at one of the hardest, most stressful jobs in the world?
Posted by: Stan | October 3, 2008, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm
Caribou Barbie won’t get any do-overs on the 3:00 am phone call. I’m just saying – while she’s telling the caller “I’ll get back to ya” the world as we know it will be blown to smithereens.
Posted by: BMS | October 3, 2008, 3:18 pm 3:18 pm
Palin has pretty good performance skills for sure. She wasn’t runner-up in the Miss Alaska competition for nothing. But she shops for journalists who fit like she did for colleges – what was it 6 colleges in 5 years. Listening to her I get the feeling that when the cold wind blows down from nearby Russia it goes right through her head without any gray matter to hinder it.
Posted by: hopesprings52 | October 3, 2008, 3:18 pm 3:18 pm
I can just see it now. John McCain dies in office and Sarah takes over. She has to attack Russia who has invaded the capitol of Georgia. Time to launch the nukes. OOPS. She just flatened Atlanta. DO OVER PLEASE!
Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 3, 2008, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm
Palin is very smart.
If she answered the question earlier in the interview, then Obama campaign will dig, this is missing, that’s missing. That’s what they did to Hillary. When Hillary published her first lady schedule, Obama only looked at what they think it’s not good, they never looked what Hillary accomplished.
Palin avoided that.
Posted by: golfgirlusa | October 3, 2008, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm
Apparently the truth is out, there is someone worse than ‘W’…
Palin is the biggest joke I have ever seen running for a major ticket….
Posted by: tony | October 3, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm
Excellant post Stan. If she cnnot handle the likes of Katie Couric and Charles Gibson, what is going to happen in meetings with the Iranian President etal? Oh yeah thats right she and MCCain will never talk to them so, I guess were safe.
Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 3, 2008, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm
In a hilarious bit of who the hell is running the ship, right wing blogs are all a twitter about McCain being furious at Palin’s advisers for not letting her do more interviews. Foxnews is reporting that Palin is furious that they are pulling out of MI.
I’m John McCain and I have no idea who approved this message.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 3, 2008, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm
“Palin is very smart.
If she answered the question earlier in the interview, then Obama campaign will dig, this is missing, that’s missing. That’s what they did to Hillary. When Hillary published her first lady schedule, Obama only looked at what they think it’s not good, they never looked what Hillary accomplished.
Palin avoided that.”
So instead of possibly giving your opponent material its better to looks like a complete moron by being unable to answer simple questions.
Yeah that’s a smart strategy!
ROFLMAO!
Posted by: Ryan C | October 3, 2008, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm
I don’t remember Katie asking Joe Biden what publications he reads. Sarah Palin was insulted by these ridiculous questions. She should have handled it better, but I don’t blame her. CBS, ABC, NBC and especially MSNBC are determined to elect Senator Obama. There is tremendous frustration that the Republicans cannot get a fair shake. The press is abusing their public trust. What we are hearing from the above mentioned entities is a load of propaganda. They will not perform their journalistic duty and report facts and let their viewers and readers to decide what is best for them. Sarah Palin has not been on the national stage very long. She is more experienced than Obama, but she is running for VP…not for President. Sen. Biden was added to the ticket to provide foreign policy experience to the ticket. Sen. Biden has had 2 brain aneurisms. If something happens to him, where is Sen. Obama’s much vaunted experience factor then? Sarah Palin will have access to the same “experts”. There is more to leadership than being able to reel off facts and figures. Sarah Palin has character, and a unique ablility to understand and relate to the American public. While Joe Biden has done some good things, he also is as corrupt as Senator Biden by virtue of the hundreds of thousand of dollars they received from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I never see that fact being talked about in the mainstream media.
Posted by: Kathryn | October 3, 2008, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm
She must think we are all alaskans this woman is an Idiot I agree with one post if she cant handle a couple of questions from the media HOW IN THE HELL IS SHE GONNA HANDLE THE WHITE HOUSE OH AND IF SOMETHING WERE TO HAPPEN TO MCCAIN omg were screwed
Posted by: angie | October 3, 2008, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm
“what is going to happen in meetings with the Iranian President etal”
She does get points for pronouncing his name when McCain could not.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 3, 2008, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm
The thought that occurred to me concerning her answer to “what do you read” is that she was defensive. Does she have a complex of being from Alaska? Doesn’t she realize that this is something that people often ask each other?
Posted by: schewung | October 3, 2008, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm
I’m so fed up with this litte hussy that if she comes to N. Carolina I will personally camp out all night just to protest. I’m sorry don’t mean to insult anyone but If you can support this air head than your missing a few screws. Her folksy routine is an embarassment to anyone past the 5th grade.Nov can’t come soon enough!
Posted by: linda n carolina | October 3, 2008, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm
“I don’t remember Katie asking Joe Biden what publications he reads.”
She was busy asking Joe real questions.
Couric did everything she could to give Palin an opportunity to present herself.
“Sarah Palin was insulted by these ridiculous questions.”
They were softballs she should have belted out of the park.
That she whiffed( repeatedly) was astounding.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 3, 2008, 3:28 pm 3:28 pm
WHY CANT PALIN GO ON MEET THE PRESS LIKE THE OTHER POLITICANS I mean come on if senator obama can go on fox news with billo the clown sara could surly go on meet the press!
Posted by: angie | October 3, 2008, 3:28 pm 3:28 pm
this is insane! this woman is not fit to be NEAR the White House, I think Alaska is even too close, I’m a working mom, and she does not speak for me, she has no clue and it has become a SNL joke all over again…
Posted by: karen | October 3, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm
“There is tremendous frustration that the Republicans cannot get a fair shake”
Do republican deserve a fair shake?
They lied to get us into a war that has cost thousands of lives and left tens of thousands more maimed.
They watched the rich swindle the poor out of their pensions and stocks savings.
A dozen Republican members of Congress have been indicted and/or convicted of abusing the public trust to say nothing of the scores of Republican aides also being implicated.
Republicans should be thankful the public is not after them with torches and pitchforks.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 3, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm
This would be funny if it weren’t so #$*&%! frightening.
She needs a week of cramming not to fall on her face during a debate. And then she declines to answer the questions that are asked and just regurgitates her script.
She can’t answer simple questions about what publications she reads without a week to think about it — or more likely, get a list from McCain’s folks.
Doggone it, Six-Pack Sarah, you don’t get any do-overs in the big leagues, Don’t ya know.
Posted by: Alex | October 3, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm
WOW!
Does she really think the American Public is going to believe her?
If she was nervous, it is not a good sign.
If she doesn’t read, it is not a good sign.
The funny thing is, McCain tried to paint Obama as risky, and McCains actions have proved him to be more risky, yet Obama appears to be the safer pick.
McCain the Maverick, he suspends campaigns and picks unprepared VP candidates. Talk about irony.
Posted by: r-dub | October 3, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm
Great Sarah, let’s call CBS and do another interview with Katie Couric…
Somehow I think she will chicken out…
Let’s be honest, the reason she didn’t did any harm at the debate was that Joe Biden went after McCain and not after Sarah Palin.
If Joe Biden really went after Sarah Palin, he could really nail her with
1) bridge to nowhere
2) her poor executive style, this woman made a lot of enemies, fired a lot people.
3) claiming to be a maverick, nut instead leaving a deficit she left Wassila.
4) no international experience, whatsoever.
And she didn’t defended McCain very good, most attacks of Joe Biden were not answered because she then changed subjects…
Posted by: CLabs | October 3, 2008, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm
Yeah but Ryan can she pick him out of a line up? Palin also misidentified Army Gen. David D. McKiernan, commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, as “McClellan” a General commanding the Northern troops during the Civil War. Bidens gaffe only goes back to 1929, Palins a good 155 years.
Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 3, 2008, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm
Jake, you cannot be serious? this story is not true,is it? less than 24 hrs. go by and she did this!
Six-pack Joe is going to need more than a six pack when she gets done, every time she opens her mouth it gets worse!!!
Posted by: jim t. | October 3, 2008, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm
BTW… her folksy style is hilarious.
Maybe she could do some campaigning in some trailer parks.
Posted by: CLabs | October 3, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm
“I don’t remember Katie asking Joe Biden what publications he reads”
That’s because Biden is well known and has been around for over 30 years. His record is there for anyone to see, and he’s met with the press countless times, unafraid of the media.
Palin was practically unknown to the country with less than 2 months to go before a national election when McCain picked her. No one knew much about her, and this was her chance to prove she is connected and tuned in to world events. She failed that test, miserably.
“Sarah Palin was insulted by these ridiculous questions.”
Oh no, the poor Alaskan ice queen and her frail ego, what ever shall she do?
Does she think that meeting with the president of Iran is going to be any easier? Does she think handling a national crisis will be a cakewalk?
If she cannot answer a question from a reporter, then she has NO business trying to be vice president. Her ego led her to accept McCain’s invitation, and a person with better judgment would have declined, but she’s just like Bush in that regard; she has no skills for the job but she thinks her ambition is an acceptable substitute for actual knowledge and understanding of the issues.
Posted by: Stan | October 3, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm
Heh…before this ‘do-over’, someone said that during the Couric interview she should have said “The Economist” because everyone lies about reading it
Posted by: phillygirl64 | October 3, 2008, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm
GREAT Job GOV Palin!!!!!
Now – Go WIN this election!
McCain/Palin – BEST Team for our country
Posted by: Molly | October 3, 2008, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm
Maybe FOX could do ALL your interviews and share with the others!
You seem to do just fine when the questions – and reporter are FAIR & Balanced!
Posted by: Abby | October 3, 2008, 3:55 pm 3:55 pm
“Do republican deserve a fair shake?”
Don’t you realize that question betrays everything in the Constitution, everything we treasure? Will you give it all up because you hate Bush that much?
As I’ve said before Ryan, you are losing the very prize you came to claim and you don’t even know it. The problem is we can’t let you and Obama lose it for the rest of us.
You just proved Palin’s point: it only takes one generation away from losing our freedom. Step back before it is too late for you.
Posted by: len | October 3, 2008, 3:59 pm 3:59 pm
Len,
Why are you so worried about what I say here on a blog?
I think the Republicans are criminals that have shredded our Constitution and I have no problem saying it.
You think if everyone is quiet the monsters will stop acting by their nature.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 3, 2008, 4:10 pm 4:10 pm
Why not ask Biden what happened to Katie’s restaurant on Union Street in Wilmngton that he said he frequents lately, and people are suffering. It isn’t even on Union Street and it became a Wings to Go over 10 years ago. Why can no Home depot employee of Delaware place Biden in their store? He is a windbag of lies but the media lets him get a away with it. The media want Obama to win, It is a fact that they are even willing to commit treason!!! Why would they refuse to not investigate the Obama campaign’s foreign illegal donations from Iran, The PLO phone bank and the millions of dollars bundled from overseas that they refuse to report.
face it – we are heading into a socialist regime of state run media!!! Our freedom and all that our country stood for is over.
Posted by: Kay | October 3, 2008, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm
Again, if Palin is prepared by somebody, she is doing just fine. The problem is we can not put a puppet in the White House. Couric was doing Palin a favor by asking a simple question to help Americans get to know her, but she could not even give a straight answer. If the truth is she does not read any newspaper, why not just said it. What did she have to hide?? I am OK if she is honest with who she is. I am not OK if she tries to fool us. Too bad we would not know about the real Palin but puppet Palin, since she will not do any interviews (probably except FOX). I wonder why.
Posted by: CT | October 3, 2008, 4:15 pm 4:15 pm
Just remember 2000, Ryan.
Posted by: Palin Wins | October 3, 2008, 4:15 pm 4:15 pm
Why not ask Biden what happened to Katie’s restaurant on Union Street in Wilmngton that he said he frequents lately, and people are suffering. It isn’t even on Union Street and it became a Wings to Go over 10 years ago. Why can no Home depot employee of Delaware place Biden in their store? He is a windbag of lies but the media lets him get a away with it. The media want Obama to win, It is a fact that they are even willing to commit treason!!! Why would they refuse to not investigate the Obama campaign’s foreign illegal donations from Iran, The PLO phone bank and the millions of dollars bundled from overseas that they refuse to report.
face it – we are heading into a socialist regime of state run media!!! Our freedom and all that our country stood for is over.
Posted by: Kay | October 3, 2008, 4:16 pm 4:16 pm
“You just proved Palin’s point: it only takes one generation away from losing our freedom.”
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Bush, Cheney lied to us about the war in Iraq and get away it. McCain is not much different, he is using the same tactics to win this election.
Posted by: CLabs | October 3, 2008, 4:17 pm 4:17 pm
Why not ask Biden what happened to Katie’s restaurant on Union Street in Wilmngton that he said he frequents lately, and people are suffering. It isn’t even on Union Street and it became a Wings to Go over 10 years ago. Why can no Home depot employee of Delaware place Biden in their store? He is a windbag of lies but the media lets him get a away with it. The media want Obama to win, It is a fact that they are even willing to commit treason!!! Why would they refuse to not investigate the Obama campaign’s foreign illegal donations from Iran, The PLO phone bank and the millions of dollars bundled from overseas that they refuse to report.
face it – we are heading into a socialist regime of state run media!!! Our freedom and all that our country stood for is over.
Posted by: Kay | October 3, 2008, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm
I understand Palin’s annoyance. For Couric to ask about what Palin read was simply condescending. If I was being interviewed and I was sked that question I would have been thinking, “Who does she think I am, some kind of goober who only reads the local town paper?” Palin is the governor of a large state. You cannot begin to do that job without being pretty widely read. Sure, Palin does not form her sentences and use the vocabulary they use in New York, but that does not make her an idiot. The idiot was Couric who was looking so far down her nose at Palin she could not see who she was interviewing.
Posted by: David H | October 3, 2008, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm
WHY!
WHAT!
WHEN!
That’s all anyone needs to ask Palin and they will see that she hasn’t got a clue of what she is talking about.
The reason why she did so bad with Katie Curic is because Katie actually did her job as a journalist and asked WHY?
You say your have foreign policy experience because you live next to Russia.. WHY is that relevant?
You haven’t traveled much but you said that you read books to keep a good knowledge of what is going on in the world… WHAT kind?
You said that John McCain always stood up for more regulation…. WHEN?
Katie asked those questions in response to comments that PALIN made, and on each one of those simple questions… she flubbed!
Because Katie uttered those 3 small words we were able to see who the real Palin is. Anyone can spit out talking points. That doesn’t make you qualified!
It is so obvious that she is just repeating what was “drilled” in her head in the past couple of weeks because you always hear these key words… Rain in spending, back on track, reform, and the infamous MAVERICK!
That woman stood up there last night and made a complete fool out of herself.. winking, and gawking for the cameras.
“Gee golly, oh no Joe say it ain’t so, daggone it, I’m Joe Six Pack!
Is this what we have been reduced to as a country??!! Is this what we send our children to school to become in life??
And to call those who actually excel in education elitists??
REALLY??
Posted by: Common Sense | October 3, 2008, 4:29 pm 4:29 pm
“I think the Republicans are criminals that have shredded our Constitution and I have no problem saying it.”
I think Obama is cheating to win the election and that is criminal. What is worse is the way he made the rest of you accessories to the crime.
Thirty days is a lifetime this close to an election.
Posted by: len | October 3, 2008, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm
Well, that does it!
She will not get my vote for vice president of the Katie Couric pop quiz!
Conversely, she killed Biden last night. Crazy Joe was limping off the stage. 300 years in the Senate, now that’s change! (Depends)
Posted by: Captain America | October 3, 2008, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm
This win by Palin will propel the McCain-Palin ticket to victory in November. She was great.
Crazy Joe was….well crazy (14 lies I’m afraid).
Besides, why did Crazy Joe nearly bust out in tears? No one was saying that a single male father couldn’t do what he was freaking out over.
Crazy Joe………….crazy
Posted by: Captain America | October 3, 2008, 5:21 pm 5:21 pm
If she gets into the White House im making a citizens arrest throwing her out of there.
Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 3, 2008, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm
I’m so pumped over Palin’s performance.
The first female on the ticket since 1984 and she kicked serious Biden-butt!d
Posted by: Captain America | October 3, 2008, 5:31 pm 5:31 pm
“My response to her, I guess it was kind of flippant. But, I was sort of taken aback, like, the suggestion was, ‘You’re way up there in a far away place in Alaska, do you know that there are publications in the rest of the world that are read by many?’ And I was taken aback by that because I don’t know, the suggestion just was a little bit of perhaps we’re not in tune with the rest of the world.”
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Sarah Palin has a serious attitude it has shown itself with the HUGE chip she balances on her shoulder and DARES someone to knock off… the media, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, the lower 48, people with passports who travel overseas…
No you weren’t flippant and impatient, Sarah.
You were nasty and mean-spirited, dismissive, and defensive. Try that defensive attitude when negotiating with world leaders and see how far it gets you… or the United States.
Posted by: Dennis | October 3, 2008, 5:37 pm 5:37 pm
Palin does fine with pre-written material, but not when she is asked about other stuff where there is no preparation. Her speech at the convention was scripted as was most of the canned answers last night.
We do not know if she is capable of more than parroting talking points. That is in itself scary as if McCain dies of cancer or old age whose talking points will she be parroting?
If she is incapable of more than sticking to a script presented to her then she is not a worthy VP candidate. McCain put Politics first by choosing her and the country dead last. That says a lot.
Posted by: Mike in Sac | October 3, 2008, 5:52 pm 5:52 pm
I hate to burst all of you Palin fan’s bubbles. The polls are in and Biden won the debate.
Palin had no gaffes and therefore exceeded her extremely low expectations, but even people who support Palin and McCain admitted that Biden was the most knowledgeable on issues (98%)
46% thought Biden won the debate,
21% thought Palin won, and
33% saw it as a tie.
McCain did not get his game changer. He needs one badly as his record of de-regulation and the fact that this has contributed to our fiscal crisis is just devastating his chance to win. Also, he is running a really horrid campaign.
Now giving up in Michigan? It is all but over!
Posted by: Poll check | October 3, 2008, 6:02 pm 6:02 pm
When is she going to do a press conference? Or is she just going to hide in the Fox bubble from now on?
Posted by: Danny | October 3, 2008, 6:03 pm 6:03 pm
I love the Republicans!
Running around saying Palin won the debate last night, when every single poll gives it to Biden…
Also when did not answering the questions and reading two minute mini-speeches off of “note cards” (as Palin did), equate to somebody being smart and in command of the facts?
Biden wasn’t reading the “answers” off of note cards and he answered the questions the moderator asked!!
Palin is still the same DUNCE we saw on SNL and in the Katie Couric interviews!!!
If the Republicans think differently, then will she be on the Sunday shows like Biden will be this weekend??
Posted by: Davis | October 3, 2008, 6:04 pm 6:04 pm
Oh wow, that mean Katie Couric, ya know, goshdarnit, it’s like, gotcha. But that’s OK too, and extra credit for watching this. And John McCain’s a maverick. I can’t handle Katie Couric and golly Charles Gibson either, but Putin, Morales, Ahmadinejad, bin Laden shouldn’t be any problem for me.
Did I mention John McCain, the maverick?
Posted by: Pacific moderate | October 3, 2008, 6:18 pm 6:18 pm
Captain America: “Crazy Joe was limping off the stage. 300 years in the Senate, now that’s change!”
Cap’n, you crack me up, you really do. Remind me, though, how many years has John McCain been in the US Senate?
Posted by: Pacific moderate | October 3, 2008, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm
Yeah, all my students, after they see the questions on a test, and they go back and read specifically for those answers, they are all geniuses too.
Congratulations, Sarah. You’re a failing student who thinks she can smile her way into the hearts of voters, and pass.
Posted by: Jerome | October 3, 2008, 6:39 pm 6:39 pm
Flippant hardly describes it. She was stupefied and meandering. This woman reminds me of a department store Santa’s helper.
Posted by: Brooklyn Democrat | October 3, 2008, 6:40 pm 6:40 pm
Flippant. yes, that is the word I was looking for to describe how Palin came across in the debate yesterday. I know there are some that do not believe that Palin connects with mainstreet but perhaps it’s not McCain that is out of touch, perhaps it’s the press?
I think the press needs to do a better job of communicating what they percieve so mainstreet can get some perspective on this wink, wink campaign.
Posted by: Kathy | October 3, 2008, 6:42 pm 6:42 pm
Note to Katie Couric:
Bring Palin into a Borders and give her two minutes to find a copy of the Economist.
Posted by: BBpd | October 3, 2008, 6:58 pm 6:58 pm
Sarah, I read industry publications, gal, like the Oil and Gas Journal – and I can’t find a single interview with you or anyone on your staff. Exactly what industry publications were you interviewed by? World Oil Review? AAPG? And what article did you like best in the Economist?
Following your logic, if you feel a little annoyed with a congressman – well you just won’t talk to them. Don’t like a NATO ally? Well, he kinda bugged me, so I didn’t answer. Sometimes, gal we just have to talk to people we don’t like much – and sometimes we have to answer questions from people we just can’t even stand. It’s called being an adult. It’s time for you to grow up – and we don’t have time to wait for it to happen.
Posted by: mara | October 3, 2008, 7:10 pm 7:10 pm
“Bring Palin into a Borders and give her two minutes to find a copy of the Economist.”
LOL!
Posted by: Ryan C | October 3, 2008, 7:22 pm 7:22 pm
Palin knew what she was doing all along. And she either knew answer or didn’t. I had seen Alaksa debates and knew she would do ok. But substance was lacking in Alaska also. The other two candidates knew much more than she did.
Couric was actually quite nice to her. I watched those interviews. All the news reporters that interviewed her were extremely nice to her. They really treated her with kids gloves. I feel Palin is just attacking to attack. That is what a politician can do and does. But this type of behavior is not becoming to a candidate character. First there were sexist accusations by all the news media. Now this. Appears she wants no interviews unless they are Republican leaning news reporters??
Biden won!! End of subject.
Posted by: Sharonklim | October 3, 2008, 7:53 pm 7:53 pm
Will Fox News also offer her a do-over for every crazy decision she makes in office?
I can’t believe I’m hearing this. Is this really the Republican VP candidate or is McCain just pulling a prank on America?
A pitbull with lipstick would litterally be a better pick.
Posted by: El_Pajaro | October 3, 2008, 8:01 pm 8:01 pm
Here in St. Louis the people loved her. The local big radio station today said the sample group of all ages loved her. The college group(you would think were for Obama) were undecided. Women loved her. This is after you can’t turn on the television or radio without an Obama ad playing. My questions would have been to Biden(who did not tell the truth about clean coal) just HOW does Obama plan to PAY for all the things he’s promising? They’re “slightly” over budget right now. And if he is immediately going to bring the troops home, shouldn’t that include Afganistan? I quess he really doesn’t mean ALL the troops. And how, with a straight face, can anyone blame the Wall Street crisis on McCain? Whose idea was it to “push” low income people-or any people-to get house loans they can’t afford? Who thought up Fannie and Freddie to begin with? Sarah Palin hit the nail on the head with that one. People talk about a lack of substance?–Is Obama looking in the mirror right now? Of course not. He’ll just keep on making promises he can’t possibly keep. When he raises my taxes, I’m sending the bill to the one responsible.
Posted by: RL in Illinois | October 3, 2008, 8:10 pm 8:10 pm
Palin is unprepared! She is good only in scripted interviews, and answering questions with just talking points. The foxspin masters news people are in urgent need of Psychiatric evaluation!
Posted by: foreclosure | October 3, 2008, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm
The question is? Sarah Palin proved she is ready to be the next vice president? The answer is: NO
The question is: was she able to answer accurately on questions made by the moderator?
The answer is simply NO: She was using time after time such irrelevant talking points.
The question is: did she make independent voters change their minds and vote for John McCain? I don’t think so!
Joe Biden was chosen for VP, for his honesty free spirit and his experience!
He’s supposed to make a point when is needed. Sarah Plain was chosen for the position after only one meeting .The decisive factor was only the women’s vote and the prerequisite to be the John McCain cheerleader. She has only scripted talking points and very thin Resume. Sarah Plain VP? Thanks but not thanks!
OBAMA/BIDEN RULES!
Posted by: hellow | October 3, 2008, 8:15 pm 8:15 pm
I find it slightly funny that her list of things she reads is identical to the list that O’Reilly said she should have said the other night. If I remember correctly, he even said, “say The Economist… everyone says The Economist even though no one actually reads it.”
Well, she did drop Time which I believe O’Reilly had.
It is a bit strange that she didn’t read her local newspapers until she started getting interviewed in them though.
Posted by: johnTX | October 3, 2008, 8:47 pm 8:47 pm
This woman is a farce! Anybody with a college education could have gone up there and improvised their way through. She just better be glad that Joe Biden didn’t put her over his knee.
“Oh, doggone it Joe, you betcha, but I’d like to send a shout out to your wife, ya know, her reward is in heaven, right? And those hungry markets are craving mooseburgers. Cause, ya know? But I want to talk about like my expertise on energy while Mayor of Wasila…”
Give me a freaking break. It’s not like she took a kickoff to the house in the Super Bowl. She freaking had note cards and used to be a sportscaster. She’s not any better than the saleslady at Sears.
Is this what America has come to? Average? I guess the hot dog vendors on 34th street are qualified too because they’re experts on business and the economy.
Posted by: JV | October 3, 2008, 10:03 pm 10:03 pm
To: foreclosure.
send the bill to yourself. You neocons are sounding like gongs—repeating the same talking points again and again.
Who do you think is going to foot the bill for the crooked Wall Street companies with the Trillion dollar bailout: US the US taxpayer. You always bring up the simplistic generalization, democrats=more taxes, but you don’t realize that you and your children and grandchildren are going to suffer for this bailout for a long time.
Posted by: jvln101 | October 3, 2008, 10:10 pm 10:10 pm
Any reasonably intelligent person asked themselves whether Palin read anything at all after watching her fumble through her interviews.
Her apparent lack of interest about the world around her was amazing. She is a politician, so it was even more puzzling. You would think that would come with a certain inqisitiveness of what goes on around you.
Maybe we could Putin for rearing his head over her, and not the questions.
And how does being annoyed explain ALSO the way she answered. And why did she keep doing them ALSO?
Posted by: morrigan | October 3, 2008, 10:23 pm 10:23 pm
Palin knows who a bad guy is whether he’s wearing a white collar or a turban. She has proven that by her actions.
Biden, a child of the 60′s, who worked 5 years as a lawyer and the rest of his life in the Senate, knows how to butter his bread.
Posted by: Rupert | October 3, 2008, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm
Makes me think of of Miss Teen South Carolina appearing on the Today Show a few days after her infamous crash and burn on the map question, where she got to explain to us all what she really meant to say… Yeah, sure you did.
Posted by: Not Buying It | October 3, 2008, 10:27 pm 10:27 pm
Sarah(c) Chatbot Passes the Turing Test; Creators Thrilled
Quoted the project’s design head: “The entity we affectionately call Sarah is actually an assortment of pre-selected responses and a public-opinion-generated appearance, designed to maximize likability and another factor we’re calling ‘folksiness’.”
In response to attacks as to the ethical merits of this research, the doctor concluded, “The risk that beings like Sarah will rise up and enslave us all is really very minimal.” The doctor went on to clarify that these easily-trigged, stimuli-based responses are prone to random firing, and should in no way be mistaken for true intelligence.
I should write for The Onion :P
Posted by: Brandon Carbaugh | October 3, 2008, 10:34 pm 10:34 pm
If you need the benefit of hindsight to realize that you shouldn’t be “flippant” when being interviewed on national TV about important issues regarding your viability as a candidate for vice president, perhaps that’s an indication that you don’t have the good judgment necessary to hold the position in the first place… don’t you think? I mean, you’re not applying for a job scooping ice cream here.
Posted by: Also... | October 3, 2008, 10:38 pm 10:38 pm
And maps! She wants maps for the.. like in the 4rd world and they don’t even have the possibilities. And our children.
And you’re right on, the press they have to, with maps, charter a way for the mutual understanding so that we never lose our ways. And it’s got to all be about job creation, too. Totally.
SHOUT OUT FOR THE 3RD GRADERS! I WILL BE IN CLASS AGAIN SOON I GOT CALLED FOR DUTY. SORRY TEACHER I WILL TAKE ALL THE TESTS I MISSED. RIGHT AFTER I COMPLY WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Get this joke off the national stage. Stat.
Posted by: Hans Meiser | October 3, 2008, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm
Here’s the tally of some of our favorite words:
democracy 1
freedom 3
oil 3
fairness 4
Alaska 4
Also 9
Here’s another fun game to play. This was a relatively short article, right? Not even the full text of the interview? Doesn’t that say something?
Posted by: Brandon Carbaugh | October 3, 2008, 10:47 pm 10:47 pm
I have read over many of the precisely-prepared comments above, as carefully pondered and meticulously crafted by so very many obviously gifted, amazingly prolific masters of the written word, I am indeed stunned by your brilliant intellectual prowess, as you so precisely outline the abject failures of Gov. Palin, both in her “interview” with Ms Couric, and in her “Do-Over” posted above (which, you might want to note, was written and titled by the author, Jake Tapper, of ABC News, as his summary of an interview (do-over?) by FoxNews Carl Cameron. It just amazesa and humbles me to be here in the presence of so many of you intellectual GIANTS! Just one little question, though…Do any of you actually READ what you write? Do you own a dictionary? If so, can you find it, and, further, can you actually read it AND comprehend what is being stated?! All the while you are launching your attacks and hurling your insults at Ms Palin with your strong, stinging remarks about her inability and lack-of-preparedness to actually assume the role of – if needed – the POTUS, you are apparently either unaware of the fact that Mr. Obama, the revered, even worshipped, Democratic candidate for President, lacks even the most basic of tools to aspire to that office, or you are so deep in denial that you think he is the Second-Coming-of-Christ, and therefore, being omniscient, has neither the need nor the desire to obtain for himself either an understanding of the world situation or the experience needed to enable him to deal with it? And are you so very naive as to believe that he doesn’t avail himself of the best “talking-points coaches – handlers” that all his money can buy? He is a “genius” with a teleprompter, but, when it stalls, he’s suddenly lost, apeaking in “ums” and “ers” and “ohs”…and don’t forget the Old Faithful “Change” and “Hope”, his two most favorite descriptors of what he will do and how he will do it if he is elected.
You geniuses are right there like a pack of wolves to attack your opponent (in the Holy name of your candidate whose mantra includes “healing”,
and “cooperation”,and “bipartisanship”),all the while completely avoiding a real airing of thoughts that one might construe to be realistically representative of how Americans deal with one another, especially in the realm of politics and government, and especially when the Nation is facing a multitude of crises of all kinds.
I find all these asnine posts to be pointless and just plain stupid, as well as insulting to all true Americans.
Y’all have a good night now, alrightey?
Posted by: Hudzie in AZ | October 3, 2008, 11:18 pm 11:18 pm
“…it affected me as a mayor, also. Property rights are so precious in this nation and for the Supreme Court to have sided with government instead of the people, the property owners on that — that was frustrating.”
Huh? Sarah Palin TOOK private property, using eminent domain, to build hher famous sports facility in Wasilla.
Now she is claiming to be against eminent domain, and saying she holds property rights sacred?
This sounds like another “Thanks, but no thanks” to a Bridge to Nowhere.
Posted by: Nancy Irving | October 4, 2008, 1:31 am 1:31 am
Don’t forget which party is slinging mud to their opponents.
“Sarah Palin claimed that Barack Obama should be disqualified from serving as president because he had once proclaimed that troops in Afghanistan were “air raiding villages and killing civilians.”
f the charge seemed oddly and painfully familiar it’s because it has been levied at Obama – and subsequently dismissed – several times before during this election season.
The issue stems from a remark the Illinois Democrat made in August 2007, in Nashua, New Hampshire. Speaking to supporters, the Senator called for an increase of U.S. troops in that war zone because, without the influx, operations were being limited to air raids that resulted in many preventable civilian deaths.
“Now you have narco drug lords who are helping to finance the Taliban,” Obama said, “so we’ve got to get the job done there [in Afghanistan], and that requires us to have enough troops that we are not just air raiding villages, and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there.”
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Posted by: CLabs | October 4, 2008, 1:38 am 1:38 am
I read Gov. Palins last statement after Carl Cameron asked her about objectivity-fairness several times and it was a completely incoherent statement, a non sequitur.
When John McCain choose Gov. Palin I was routing for her. I discounted the inexperienced argument because I don’t think it’s as much of an issue having the ability to think through complex and being knowledgeable. Gov. Palins lack of these abilities is truly a dissapointment.
Posted by: Barbara | October 4, 2008, 2:11 am 2:11 am
Why would they refuse to not investigate the Obama campaign’s foreign illegal donations from Iran, The PLO phone bank and the millions of dollars bundled from overseas that they refuse to report.
Umm…maybe because these stories have no basis in reality? Just a guess.
Posted by: Captain Bathrobe | October 4, 2008, 2:24 am 2:24 am
ha hah aha haaa.. ok. ok.. I caught my breath..
So now Fox News is reporting that she reads ‘The Economist’ & ‘Wall Street Journal’.. ? Seriously, people cannot be this stupid.. The McCain campaign is getting really desperate, if they are trying to redeem Sarah Palin by having her do a second interview with the same questions asked.
I’ve noticed most Sarah Palin supporters are usually 11 year old girls or 86 year old men.
The 11 year old girls think she is cutesy, has a bubbly personality (probably like the fun soccer mom they hang out with, who takes them to 7-11 for a slurpy after a tough day out on the soccer field) and her command of the English language is on par of an 11 year old.. “Don’tcha know.. you betcha.. watchout for those nucklar bombs….”
The 86 year old men cannot hear her talk, but like what they see.
Posted by: gregkuhl | October 4, 2008, 3:22 am 3:22 am
“As we send our young men and women overseas in a war zone to fight for democracy and freedoms, including freedom of the press, we’ve really got to have a mutually beneficial relationship here with those fighting the freedom of the press, and then the press, though not taking advantage and exploiting a situation, perhaps they would want to capture and abuse the privilege.”
OK – I will pay $100 to the first person who can identify one coherent thought in that paragraph.
Posted by: BMS in NC | October 4, 2008, 5:46 am 5:46 am
I got it.
Even as our young soldiers are on a task that is from God, the fight from freedom, freedom of the press even, here at home in this great country of ours, we must have a level playing field between the press and the anti-press, but no hitting below the belt on either side, and no spiking of the ball in the end zone.
Now where’s my hundred bucks?
Posted by: Rudy | October 4, 2008, 6:25 am 6:25 am
Gotcha’ Journalism?
What newspapers do you read?
Heck, if I asked a 7 year old what books they read, is that a gotcha’???
I think since she is “new to Washington” any intelligent person would sure want to know about her since she could be president.
You people are more nosy about movie stars then you are about someone who holds your life in your hands.
How sad!!
I want to be more informed then that.
Obama/Biden ’08
Posted by: Bev | October 4, 2008, 6:34 am 6:34 am
The “Do Over” is pathetic. I am yet to see a student that will, in the midst of an exams, ask to be excused to go out of the hall to research in the Library before coming back to finish the exams.
She didn’t know or perhaps, she has not heard of these Newspapers and Magazines as at the time of her Interview with Kate Couric.
She apparently did not know other Supreme Court’s decided Cases apart from Roe vs Wade during the interview too.
Taking a second-chance at the questions is not only ridiculous, it is infantile.
She must think we are fools. Even a 10 year old can do more research than these in one week.
It goes without saying that this woman is empty and she lacks general knowledge of the Country.
She feels totally at home and on her own tuft when the issues are on Alaska.
Any other thing apart from Alaska is an uphill task.
Posted by: Dare Nigeria | October 4, 2008, 7:15 am 7:15 am
“…we’ve really got to have a mutually beneficial relationship here with those fighting freedom of the press.”
Can anyone tell me what the hell this woman is talking about? Is “fighting freedom of the press” part of her “expansionist” view of Vice-Presidential powers?
Posted by: Brooklyn Democrat | October 4, 2008, 7:20 am 7:20 am
Governor Sarah Palin is a bad representative of the Alaskans on the national scene.
Are Alaskans this daft? (Please I need answer to the question because I have never been to Alaska and I don’t have a Friend from Alaska).If not, why elect the Woman to office in the first place?
Is there a dearth of intelligent People in Alaska?
There School system must be in trouble if the best they can produce is Mrs Palin.
Posted by: Dare Nigeria | October 4, 2008, 7:27 am 7:27 am
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
People watching FOX Spin masters are in Risk of Permanent Brain Damage!
Excessive Political spin can harm your perception of the reality and impair your Judgment for ever!
CYNICAL REPORTERS OPERATE ALL THE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: foreclosure | October 4, 2008, 7:27 am 7:27 am
What an ostrich and the Republicans have in common? Let me guess!
An ostrich bury its head in the sand and pretend everything is fine.
Republicans do the same and follow McCain!
I don’t have any problem in characterizing McCain .He is a Republican!
According to his own campaign, Republicans are corrupt and incompetent.
Obviously he has inside information!
The Republican ticket!
John McCain (We bomb everything)
Sarah Palin (I see Russia from my house)
His aged and ambitious
She is young and motivated.
For him is the last chance to be President
For her the last chance to be his cheerleader.
Their story SPIN, LIES and LIPSTICK
The last days of the campaign confirmed that McCain -Plain are the most inadequate people to run this country.
Posted by: justme | October 4, 2008, 7:35 am 7:35 am
Dare Nigeria,
Alaskans don’t all love Sarah Palin.
Just go to any video sharing website and search for “Anti-Palin”. You’ll find lots of videos of rallies of enraged Alaskans carrying very creative signs.
They’re fed-up that Mrs “Hold Me Accountable” has gone back on her word and is now trying to stall her ethics investigation.
Posted by: Grey Matter | October 4, 2008, 7:40 am 7:40 am
The McCain Campaign knew that her IQ is not too impressive. That was why they went for a debate format that would allow her to avoid questions she considered tough without being called to reckoning on them.
I am sure subsequent interviews will be monitored and controlled by McCain Campaign to save them from further embarrassment.
I wonder which professional Journalist will allow herself to be controlled because she wants to interview Sarah Palin.
They should save us from further embarrassment by withdrawing this Woman from other Press engagements.
People watch her interviews not because they expect her to say something sensible, but to listen to her gaffes and apparent lack of depth.
She is fast becoming a comic relief after a day’s job.
Posted by: Dare Nigeria | October 4, 2008, 7:42 am 7:42 am
I agree.
Come on. Palin reads the Economist? Oh really? She doesn’t seem TOO knowledgeable on issues that are discussed in the Economist.
I have no idea why she couldn’t answer the question when it was Katie Couric posing it. I didn’t see anything derogatory Katie was trying to insinuate that she was “out of touch” being kind of isolated in Alaska from the rest of the United States. This is one thing I don’t like about her behaviour, she is always so defensive and likes starting culture wars.
Posted by: Grey Matter | October 4, 2008, 7:49 am 7:49 am
Grey matter,
Thanks for the clarification.
I am glad to hear that.
My unreserved apologies to Alaskans for jumping to conclusion about them on account of Gov. Palin’s inaptitude
Posted by: Dare Nigeria | October 4, 2008, 7:59 am 7:59 am
“…we’ve really got to have a mutually beneficial relationship here with those fighting freedom of the press.”
I believe this is an attempt to kiss and make up with Charlie Gibson for whom Palin secretly has the hots.
Posted by: Rudy | October 4, 2008, 8:01 am 8:01 am
I’m not really sorry to say some big Fox spin masters are in urgent need of psychiatric evaluation and help. They are the main reason for the election of Bush to White House, and for consequence they are responsible for his failure and the suffering of the American people! Now they are trying again to do the same, with Johnny Macaroni and Sarah Plain.!
Posted by: nomorespin | October 4, 2008, 8:44 am 8:44 am
Foxy Sarah Palin not good enough to make independent voters to vote McCain.
Too much talking but not any substance! Foxspin not Fair not Balanced!
Posted by: spin makeme dizzy | October 4, 2008, 9:35 am 9:35 am
I read all of them ……
how about
You know Katie…. not one particular one is coming to mind right now.
or
I don’t even read. I just wink and smile and show a little leg and get all folksy and people just love that and they vote for me.
or
I wanna talk about barack’s tax plan.
or
I wanna talk about my track record as a energy regulator.
Posted by: Omentum | October 4, 2008, 10:10 am 10:10 am
Well Caribou Barbie
If you answer the questions like a dufus of course you are going to get clobbered.
Politics is all about know how to talk about stuff that you don’t have a clue about.
Shhhhhh don’t tell anyone. But Barack doesn’t know a lot about certain things but he can definitely talk his way out of a corner.
Ms Palin … she talks herself into a corner and turns on the big neon light “HEY LOOK OVER HERE…. I AM CLUELESS”
so much so that SNL doesn’t even have to embellish the her words to make a joke.
Posted by: Omentum | October 4, 2008, 10:18 am 10:18 am
Sarah Palin was not treated badly by news reported prior to this last Fox Interview. News Reporters actually treated her with kids gloves. Couric was extremely nice. Sarah Palin has had plenty of time for adjusting to news interviews when running for mayor and while serving as governor for two years. Sarah Palin excuses and attacks upon media inexcusable. She is a Vice Presidential candidate and must to be ready to answer questions.
Posted by: Sharonklim | October 4, 2008, 10:29 am 10:29 am
I’ve read many daily newspapers and weekly and monthly magazines, for years and years, but I can’t remember a single one of them!! I read the articles in them, but of course I don’t remember what newspaper I’m reading at the time!! Yeah right, and I have a bridge to nowhere to sell you. Sarah is a terrible example for our children.
Posted by: Jen | October 4, 2008, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm
I finally decided that Palin, in her last paragraph, says that the press, so as not to aid “those fighting freedom of the press,” should not take advantage and exploit and “abuse the PRIVILEGE” of freedom of the press.
So much for the Bill of Rights.
But of course when you speak so elliptically, you can deny that there was any such meaning, or any meaning at all, in what you said.
Posted by: Robin | October 4, 2008, 12:30 pm 12:30 pm
I would like to copy and paste a quote directly from the Carl Cameron interview.
“There’s not going to be the cutting and pasting and editing of any of our comments. Right on.”
Power to the Palin.
Posted by: Rudy | October 4, 2008, 1:04 pm 1:04 pm
Wow, this blog is sure populated by a bunch of folks spouting propaganda they’ve clearly just memorized, trying to sound intelligent, but reminding one vaguely of the hatred seen in the faces of those performing a stoning in Iran….
And those are the liberals! Wow, I used to be one of you!
It’s just eating your lunches that she is kicking butt, and that people like her. You can’t believe ol’ Mac pulled a woman out of the hat (when you killed off the best candidate out there, who happened to be a woman – so much for the liberals’ claim to be the party that can best represent women) and what’s worse, you can’t believe she is this GOOD as a raw, untrained, unsophisticated talent.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. If I wasn’t impressed by McCain before, I sure am now. And as an ambitious woman that has traveled the world, taking my child with me on business trips, making that work-family thing balance as best one can, I totally back Palin, and am cheering her on!
Posted by: sharonevolving | October 4, 2008, 1:05 pm 1:05 pm
One of the good things about this election is that with such an overwhelming victory by the Dems., there is a very good chance that the Repubs. who have been progressively dumbing down their candidates since Reagan, just might have to be forced into giving the American public a candidate with a brain and the wisdom to use it correctly. I guess we will see in 2012.
Remember that these polling numbers we keep seeing do not include those without a land based phone line. Most people I know in their 20′s only have cell phones. Thats alot of young new voters who are not represented in any of these polls we see.
Landslide for Obama/Biden in November.
Posted by: mike | October 4, 2008, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm
Ha hah![/Nelson]
Posted by: Nelson | October 4, 2008, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm
In reply to those curious about Alaskans and their motives, Sarah Palin was elected governor, because the Republican governor she replaced had the lowest ratings in Alaska history.(There are many reasons). Of the other two candidates, one had been a Democratic governor. (Alaskans abandoned the Democrats, because of natural resource development vs.conservation questions) The other candidate, also a Republican, was not well-known enough.I personally was amazed at her win. Many of us were amazed and astonished by McCain’s choice of this novice governor. The real travesty would be if she were indeed elected to be the Vice President of the United States.Alaska is paying dearly for our misjudgment; let the country not do the same.
Posted by: sr.lady in Alaska | October 4, 2008, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm
What a crock of crap in an interview!
Sp Palin goes to Right Wing outlets where they can act like they are FAIR AND BALANCED? AND WE SHOULD JUST ACCEPT THAT WE WILL GET ANOTHER RW IDEOLOGUE WHO SELLS THE REST OF THE COUNTRY WHO DOES NOT AGREE WITH THEIR AGENDA DOWN THE TUBES?
Is the rest of what goes for journalists going to take this b.s. lying down?
Posted by: Genna | October 4, 2008, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm
Oh You guys You. You are funny. I have a question for Palin : Is Alaska on the East or West side of the Globe?
Posted by: Rene | October 5, 2008, 2:07 am 2:07 am
she makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER. she is an insult to all americans…..
she is especially insulting to those young men and women fighting for “freedoms”. good grief. i’m glad so few are finding her anything but shallow and full of b.s. she reminds me of the saying, “if you can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with bs
Posted by: laura | October 5, 2008, 2:04 pm 2:04 pm
Ahmadinejad keeps saying about “freedom of the press”. Right down to “We just want truth, we want fairness, we want balance.”
Posted by: Jules | October 5, 2008, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm
I just watched a clip from the Cameron interview. Palin was talking about the death penalty and “heinous crimes.” She actually said HEE-nee-us. Chalk that one up alongside nucular.
Posted by: Rudy | October 5, 2008, 5:13 pm 5:13 pm
Why can’t I copy text from this web site?
Posted by: A Guy | October 5, 2008, 9:40 pm 9:40 pm
Could you imagine if you were interviewing someone for a job, had asked them a specific question and then watched them ramble into incoherent nonsense without ever mentioning anything relevant to the question initially asked? How could you take that person seriously?
If these interviews and debates are the interviews for this Vice Presidential slot, shouldn’t we be considering that this woman is giving everyone complete asinine answers to the questions shes being asked? This is a job, these are important questions to be answered and she replies with babbling incoherence. This position would be filled by someone else, if this was a serious interview.
Posted by: A S | October 5, 2008, 9:46 pm 9:46 pm
Oh, puh-leeze. In the real world, the President doesn’t get a do-over.
Posted by: Marcus | October 5, 2008, 10:21 pm 10:21 pm
A point that needs to be mentioned:
When was the last time anyone got “clobbered” by Katie Couric? No one gets clobbered by Katie Couric. Asking you what newspapers you read isn’t a clobbering question. It’s a really basic question. Just tell them your local paper has articles from the AP and we’re just peachy. That’s not a hardball question.
Posted by: phil | October 5, 2008, 10:34 pm 10:34 pm
“Now it is the worlds turn to ask Couric some questions.”
Yes, how dare known hardball interviewer Katie Couric ask basic questions like “can you name a court case?” and “what newspapers do you read?” HOW DARE SHE.
Do you even pay attention to the things you are writing? What failure of our educational system is responsible for such a shambling lapse in critical thinking?
Posted by: Bobby | October 5, 2008, 11:45 pm 11:45 pm
So Sarah Palin believes that freedom of press is a “PRIVILEGE”… maybe she hasn’t heard of the 1st Amendment!!!Well, let me clarify for you, Mrs. Palin, wink wink, freedom of the press is a Constitutional RIGHT, not a privelege! Gosh golly, how could we have expected you to know that, sixpack Sarah!
Posted by: Roman | October 5, 2008, 11:56 pm 11:56 pm
Uh I think that there Palin girl is what
we need in the whitehouse. Just think how
she would do if she were ah ah talkin with old Putin there about Georgia or any of the other world leaders. She so skilled with them there words shes ah using. I bet she would wink and and say
Hey there Joe say it ant so, then she wink and all would be alright. Who needs to anwser one of them there stupid questions, like ie.. Whats your name or what state is Washinton D.C. is in. She is exactly what we need in the big house. I bet she really knows how to whoop up one good cookin with them there Moose burgers. Yes siree Bob…
Posted by: 23e45 | October 6, 2008, 12:13 am 12:13 am
“As we send our young men and women overseas in a war zone to fight for democracy and freedoms, including freedom of the press, we’ve really got to have a mutually beneficial relationship here with those fighting the freedom of the press, and then the press, though not taking advantage and exploiting a situation, perhaps they would want to capture and abuse the privilege. We just want truth, we want fairness, we want balance.”
Wow. Palinisms that equal Bushisms in stupidity and confusion. Yup, women have come a long way, baby. You betcha!! (wink wink)
Posted by: Tim Ed Anshabby | October 6, 2008, 1:37 am 1:37 am
How anyone can think this woman is qualified to occupy any position in the White House is beyond my understanding. She’s incoherent, can’t think beyond what she’s been told to say, has a very insular view of the world outside of her own state, and has a personal set of beliefs that put her to the far right of the rest of the US.
Posted by: Bendal | October 6, 2008, 4:08 am 4:08 am
Plain sounds like she still thinks the Feudal system is still in existence. In a scary look I think she wants it back. No habeas corpus and freedom of the press is a privilege granted by the ruling class.
This women is dangerous!!!
Posted by: muffler | October 6, 2008, 7:38 am 7:38 am
… no comment ^^
Posted by: RockandScroll | October 6, 2008, 9:47 am 9:47 am
Why is this woman so rude to people?
Her unresponsive answers just provoke follow up. If she applied for a regular job and was as evasive, vague, and apparently confused as she has been I guarantee she would not get a call back.
I wouldn’t hire her to work at a fast food restaurant and she expects the country to elect her to vice president based on snarky bad manners and a smile.
I don’t think so.
Posted by: Rodger Lemonde | October 6, 2008, 10:42 am 10:42 am
I agree. Being able to answer the same questions a second time is ridiculous. Of course she was prepped in how she “should” have answered the questions. The point is that the Supreme Court question or the newspaper questions were not hard. Any high school student in US history should be able to cite Brown v Board of edcuation or Plessy v Ferguson or Miranda or even the recent supreme court case Palin’s own office put out a letter on and Palin signed – the Exxon Valdez settlement.
She cannot talk intelligently about thses things and she does not know what Hamas is, what the Bush doctrine was and she is trying to bluff her way through this.
She is unqualfied to be a VP, let alone a president. She cannot even answer questions or speak coherently. The last anwer about freedom of the press is nonsensical – but it appears she is against freedom of the press – it is just so hard to tell exactly what she is saying. Someone who is this incoherent, even in a friendly interview, is simply not qualified.
Posted by: correctnotright | October 6, 2008, 10:49 am 10:49 am
So she is now painting herself not as dumb but as flippant? Does she assume that is a good thing?
Everyone knows, Sarah, that you didn’t answer the questions because you had no idea what to say. No one is buying your do-over interviews with your friends at Fox.
Posted by: *rolls-eyes* | October 6, 2008, 11:24 am 11:24 am
I have a master’s degree in international relations, have traveled far and wide in the world and read all the time. I’m in no way qualified to be vice president and neither is Palin.
She simply throws out vapid comments that mean nothing in essence but evoke emotion in those less capable of comprehending what she’s actually saying.
She and McCain are calling it “mainstream media” that practices “gotcha” journalism and then it is so to their supporters or people on the fence who are too lazy to investigate for themselves.
I thought Couric was asking really fair questions and in many instances, giving Palin ample opportunity to discuss who she is and how she will be able to adequately fill the seat of vp.
The fact that Palin herself said she was annoyed because all she wanted to talk about was how Obama is going to raise taxes shows a lack of respect for the free press. And her defensiveness over the newspapers question was beyond me. Couric was letting her again prove her knowledge of foreign affairs, but Palin chose to take it as a dig she’s from Alaska. That was strange – I didn’t get that at all.
She is being asked fair, straight-forward questions and cannot or will not answer them and we’re suppose to be okay with that sort of evasion.
I am middle America – Missouri in fact – and this woman is not speaking to or for me because she is basically condescending what I do believe in – free press, right to information, intellectualism, etc.
Posted by: kms | October 6, 2008, 11:38 am 11:38 am
I have just wasted my time reading this entire blog. It proves the United States really has become an uneducated nation! I thought Couric stooped to an all time low in shady reporting tactics and outright disrespect. She should be fired immediately! She has brought down an entire news agency…but then CBS has always been at the bottom of the heap so maybe she is their “secret weapon” to try to make it out of the mudhole by manipulating Courics childish pranks into news. I would caution everyone to be alert to, and refuse to support, any media that uses the “seek and destroy” mentality!
Posted by: Dr.Val | October 8, 2008, 1:09 am 1:09 am
McCain would have done better with Michael Palin
Posted by: John Kaye | October 8, 2008, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm
Gov. Palin could have and should have answered Couric’s questions if nothing more than the Anchorage newspaper or Time magazine. However, it was really a nonsensical, put-down question. Couric did a lousy job as if she were attempting to “get to” Sarah Palin. No wonder CBS is dead last.
Posted by: Karolyn | October 12, 2008, 12:15 am 12:15 am
Wow. Her lack of focus on reality never ceases to entertain me, even 2 1/2 years later. I can’t believe anybody would vote for her. That people feel connected to her only emphasizes how badly our public school system has failed our country. She speaks half truths, avoids speaking on legitimate news stations, doesn’t address important issues raised to her. Unbelievable.
Posted by: John | March 9, 2011, 2:46 pm 2:46 pm