Palin Suggests Interviewers are Journalistically Unethical and Have Problem with “Joe Sixpack”

Gov. Palin had a very good day with the media yesterday. She more than held her own with Couric and did well with Hugh Hewitt.
She has turned the corner, realizing that it is all about gotcha journalism and not fact finding. If anything, she had been over accommodating in trying to respond to media questions.
As for her faith, what? She doesn’t worship at the altar of Wall Street or Rev. Wright? She loves America?

A small village in Alaska is missing it’s idiot.

Oh my God. This is the best video yet. She’s never even read a news magazine or newspaper? Probably never read a book either. Maybe she can’t even read. God help us if she is elected.

The big talk today wll be about Gwen Ifill “moderating” the debate when she has a laudatory book about Obama coming out. Fark and Malkin have the story up now but it will spread.

Great. Just what we need… a VP who doesn’t read and wants to just put her life (and ours) in God’s hands. Sound famliar? I hope the American people have had enough of leaders who wing it at their expense.

Palin has already admitted perviously that she doesn’t read nationanl paper, she educated herself through books.
I cannot understand how so many are defending her lack of general knowledge! Are you all feeling that everyone is attacking her because she is a women? I don’t get it. She is in the political process and must face ceratin questions. Did they give Obama a chance, notta…..Sarah, grow up and stop whinning….You’re in the BIG times now.

I wonder why did’t Couric ask Obama;Which church do you go to?How long have you attended it?Who is your pastor?What are the things that have attracted you to this church and it’s preaching?In what way has your pastor helped shape your worldview?Only they needed to be asked in 2007…
ex democrat

I was a teacher, I can imagine the outcome if when asked what preparations I had made to guide my students I had said:
“all of them.”
“all the ones right there in front of me.”
Palin is all about guns babies and bibles.
That’s sufficient for the fundies. They
don’t care if she’s remotely prepared to be VP or President as long as she says the right things on their social issues.

shall we repeat the mantra
the worst show of self centered-putting themself-so-far-ahead-of-the-country-bad-judgment-and -same-8year-tactics-
this nation has ever seen.
the worst VP nominee our nation has ever seen in it’s history.
The worst attempted Presidential candidate decision in our history.
The worst ticket in the HISTORY of our nation
McCain and Palin
throw these bums out.

What? Did she say something that isn’t 100% true? THE MEDIA HAS LOST IT’S ETHICS, they are no longer credible, a joke even, people should honor another persons right to religion of their choice. Do you have to have a subscription of a magazine come to your house to read it? Ever hear of online, standing in line at the grocery, the dr’s office, tv????

SHE CAN NOT EVEN NAME ONE MAGAZINE SHE REGULARLY READ!!! Again, the GOP blames the media for asking unfair question because she does not read.

The worst nominee for any national office we have ever seen.
It would be a joke if it weren’t so bad…and so harmful to our nation.
John McCain took a swipe at our nation for his own career…the likes of which we have never seen.
John McCain picking sarah palin…throwing any protection or safety on any issue
throwing our nation under the bus for his own election ploy and tactics…
disgusting the country should be revolted.

Palin doesn’t belong to any church, she says. Really? What about the Wasilla Assembly of God?

Who is in charge of choosing whi is th moderator in these debates anyway?

I’m beginning to think Alaska is a foreign country! It’s hard to understand what Palin is babbling about. She can’t put a coherent sentence together and she was a journalism major?

Please stopwith the liberal, gotcha media excuses. Yes, that is what is is–and excuse. If God forbid she is called upon to be the leader ofthis country, guess what she has to answer questions not only for the alleged biased media in this country but form all over the world. She has to answer questions from leaders who donot necessarily “like us”.
Palin is the one who said she did not get a backpack and go off to Europe. Palin said she learned from reading. It is a perfectly legitimate question to ask her, ok, what did you read–what formulates your views.
Why do people insiston coddling her? If you are going to step up tosucha position, then step up–answer the questions.
Please wake up america–no she does not have to be a scholar–but should be more intelligent and educated than “Joe sixpack” if you are to be a leader. At the veryleast, she should show a level of intellectual curiosity.
Remember who is in the White House now–someone else who claimed not to read…

What a great idea: read a book to learn how to govern! Right out of Obummer’s ACORN playbook I bet! Liznh: There’s no substitute for experience, and Obummer has none (except for his ACORN community service record). Good one.

Palin’s faith? She attends services where the preacher casts out witches. Have you seen the video where Palin brags to a congregation that her preacher prayed over her by laying of hands,(video shows Palin at the alter with others laying their hands on her) to be protected against witches and it is her destiny to lead the people? Pretty spooky stuff and NOT your average American’s religion.

My dictionary defines “moderator” as “the nonpartisan presiding officer of a town meeting.” On Thursday, PBS anchor Gwen Ifill will serve as moderator for the first and only vice presidential debate. The stakes are high. The Commission on Presidential Debates, with the assent of the two campaigns, decided not to impose any guidelines on her duties or questions.
But there is nothing “moderate” about where Ifill stands on Barack Obama. She’s so far in the tank for the Democratic presidential candidate, her oxygen delivery line is running out.

“Yahoo” features a story saying Palin’s only foreign country negotiation experience is with Candada.
Could I please have a list of the countries which Obama has had actual foreign country negotiation experience with?
None, you say? Because community organizers don’t negotiate with foreign countries. Ok, thanks, that’s what I thought.
MCCAIN/PALIN ’08

Obama
Biden
Clinton
McCain
Gore
Kerry
People who actually know the issues…in detail.
Experience is only good because of the knowledge it may bring.
It is not about experience
but it is about brains on the issues that face us.
she has no knowledge or grasp of a single one…when she needs to have a grasp of ALL of them.
so like Cheney and Ruummy and Rove and Bushy
they call the media “gotcha”
too bad we didn’t have “gotcha” journalism when they were talking about wmd, katrina, judicial ppointments…etc etc etc.

Couric…please. Get back to the kitchen where you belong.

Palin is not qualified to be vp, that’s plain and simple. My problem isn’t with Palin anymore, but the naive followers who have fallen for the republican spin that the media is being unfair. ‘Why don’t they ask Obama what he reads?’ someone asked. Once again, it should be a rule that if you are going to vote for a candidate simply because he/she has rock star status with rocks in the head then you shouldn’t be allowed to vote.

VP debate moderator Ifill releasing pro-Obama book
The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama (Hardcover)
by Gwen Ifill (Author)
A DISLCAIMER NEEDS TO GIVEN AT THE START OF THE DEBATE. IFILL MUST INFORM THE VIEWERS SHE HAS THIS BOOK COMING OUT JAN 20, 2009.

Isn’t Sarah Palin just stupid?!? They should release her 7 undergraduate transcripts for all to see and compare them to Barack Obama’s. Devote an entire spread to it in the New York Times. Have Srah’s 7 transcripts and juxtapose them with Obama’s 2 transcripts from Occidental and Columbia. It will show how much better he did in school. But wait, we can’t do that because Barack Obama will not release his transcripts from Columbia.
But who cares about that because his grades at Columbia must be good because he got into Harvard right? He did NOT graduate from Columbia with Honors. So while his grades, were not gobviously good enough to get into Harvard Law school his LSAT must have been. But he won’t release that score either. Oh well, he was editor of the Law review, so we will just put up a brilliant article that he wrote for the journal….But wait he never published anything in the journal.There doesn’t seem to be any record of Obama publishing anything in his own journal.
According to an HLR editor:
ormer editor of HLR claimed on Volokh:
“The law students on the Review all have the right to publish at least one piece (typically they publish at least their third-year papers, which they have to write anyway), and many publish at least two pieces. It is surprising that Obama published nothing at all in the very Law Review over which, he has so often boasted, he presided as ‘President.’”

geeville,
If Couric and Gibson are practically mopping the floor with Palin in just INTERVIEWS, INTERVIEWS, mind you, NOT DEBATES, Palin is clearly out of her league. It’s not as though her performance in interviews were exactly reassuring.
The McCain campaign already got the amount of time for the two candidates to discuss the issue shortened- in order to make her mauling by Biden less painful.

to “militarymom”
Obama isn’t a native American, either.

CT – my point exactly – While I am sure McCain would know the difference, if something were to happen to him and Palin were to have to order the bombing of the capitol of Georgia I am absolutly certain she would bomb Atlanta. She is so uninformed that she is almost a national security risk.

geevil…she shouldn’t even be the moderator is she has a publically biased view of either candidate.

Christian,
Obama has more common sense, executive experience and intellect (uh should I mention Columbia and Harvard) then Palin has in her pinky.
People in their die hard prejudices cloud the truth. They wantto force a square in a rectangle. Sad…good luck to you and I hope you vote your conscious because when we end up going to war with Pakistan and your kids go, I am going to be the one shaking me head. Gotcha!

I like Joe Six Pack just fine, but he’s not meant to be VP.

Reporting these days IS unethical. There is no more reporting the news, but rather making the news. Statements are taken WAY out of proportion and made into screaming headlines.
I only need to point to the primary race and the treatment Bill Clinton received. He was accused of being a racist, for gosh sakes.
Obama’s lucky that Bill is even willing to stand on the same stage with him.

I am tired of McCain’s and Palin’s antics. Whenever they screw up, they blame someone else, from the Democrats to the journalists or some sort of huge secret conspiracy that favours Obama. Instead of trying to explain themselves, they are so eager to pin the blame on anyone as long as it is not them.
Look at Bush. He was so eager to pin the blae for 9/11 on someone, he (wrongly) pinned it on Saddam. Look where that got us.
Not that Saddam is a good person himself, but jumping into conclusions all the time had cost us the lives of over 3,000 US soldiers, and many more lives of Iraqis.

Last night I decided to watch Hannity and Colmes to glimpse at the other side feelings towards the recent poll numbers.
Republicans are in panic mode. Their throwing everything at Obama. Their claiming media bias when Couric asked Palin about the bailout.LOL.
It’s so sad.
Obama 348 McCain 190

The fundamental issues like guns and abortion are paraded out every four years by the Republicans to “frenzy” people into voting for their candidate. The Republicans will NEVER overturn Roe v. Wade. Why? Because it is a campaign selling point and they’d never give that up. Bush could have had it overturned by now, since 6 of the 9 Supreme Court justices are conservative.

McCain does not use internet. Palin does not read newspaper. How do they stay on the top of what is going on around the world???
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Apparently, their handlers tell them what to think and what is important.

I seems to me that the press gave Obama a lot less slack and he had only been in the senate for 1 year when he started running for office. Is that because Opera endorsed him. What a joke!!!
Look at the coaching and marketing that Obama has had over the past 3 years.
This country is sexist!
I am a former democrat for McCain/Palin!!

It looks like McCain’s political stunts have been turning off voters.
From the polls and electoral map provided by Vanessa, it seems Obama has now taken a lead in North Carolina, Virginia and now even FLORIDA too. He’s also solidly picked up Iowa. All those states were solid Republican in 2004.
Also wasn’t wise for McCain to say the thing about no ethanol subsidies- it’s a very popular policy in the red states- and that’s dangerous since he’s depending on carrying these states now that Obama is eating into his lead in solid Republican states.

Mark,
I have no idea why people keep missing the 8 YEARS Obama spent in the Illinois Senate before he was elected to the US Senate.
Palin has been a governor of a state with a smaller population then even the one congressional district Obama represented in the Illinois Senate.

Woohoo Vanessa back pumping her polls. She stood quite silent while McCain was surging. These things come in waves, and so we’ll look for one final wave in the next 35 days where McCain rides in on a battleship and Obama bobs away on his surfboard. McCain shows leadership. Obama shows weakness. End of story.

If she doesn’t make VP She can definitely be a writer for SNL. They used here exact words for Tina Fey and the audience was ROLLING IN THE AISLES!!!
KUDOS PALIN
KUDOS TO YOU

McCain showing leadership?
LOL!
Flip-flops faster then a fish out of water on bail out in a space of a few hours, charges to DC to “fiX” the bailout and calls of the debate, turns out the Reps and Dems there said he didn’t do anything and Obama took charge of the discussion, McCain refuses to take stand, bailout then explodes. Then he is forced to swallow his pride and meet Obama head on in Ole Miss.
Real leadership? Your definitions may be different but I define leadership as someone who thinks and weighs things carefully and does not just jump into the fray without looking before they leap.

The Foxies are setting up an inevitable Palin loss in the debate as being not her fault, since the moderator was obviously biased. The fact that SP won’t be able to answer questions coherently won’t be mentioned; it will all be put down to that mean moderator who supports the other guy. It won’t much matter, because if the first presidential debate is any guideline, most of the viewers will be Democrats anywho, who already know this poor gal is clueless.
And by the way, all you supposed Democrats turned Republicans, we’re on to you, you phonies. Former Democrats, my foot.

Unethical? The only thing unethical would be not to point out how devastating she and McCain would be for this country.

Happless,
Fox news is not network news,Couric’s evening news is.There are some journalistic standards that should be followed at that level.You seem to forget for one fox news there is a MSN-OBAMA NBC,CNN,ABC,New York Times all in the tank for Obama for months and months.It is the disdain that the elitist media treats a candidate from middle america.Oh she is a hockey mom who eats moose burger so she could have nothing to do with the hallowed Wall Street Journal!!!
This is not a democrat or republican issue ,it is about journalistic ethics.

The new surveys show Obama leading McCain in Florida 51 percent to 43 percent, in Ohio 50 percent to 42 percent and in Pennsylvania 54 percent to 39 percent.
Palin will put the nail in the coffin on Thursday.
As Obama has said time and time again, Palin is not anything to worry about. Confirmed……..Just a flash in the pan.
THIS IS GOING TO BE A LANDSLIDE

geevil…my thoughts exactly..

One thing that has disturbed me about McCain and Palin’s speeches is their LACK of details (here they were saying Obama was shoddy on details). In her Florida rally, she siad we would reform Washington, but she never answered the question in my head exactly HOW.
What areas can spending be cut? Would you be requiring more transparency? Would you ban the use of emergency budgets without a proper itinery? Would you require a proper breakdown for earmark requests?
She never answered my questions at all.
What is nice and all, but HOW is important.

Fran wrote:
Even he thought Katie Couric was nasty towards Sarah Palin.
Hey Fran…this whole world is nasty. If Palin cannot handle a newsperson, how can she handle a foreign leader who doesn’t like her?

Palin is right, the media is in the tank for Obama.
No other candidate could get away with what he has done in his life or during the campaign.
Everyone is fasinated when Obama speaks, but they are not listening to what he is saying.
He has completely flip-flopped on every issue and everyone still agrees with him.
We have blind sheep voting for Obama and they don’t even know what they are voting for.

The Republicans are in panic mode.

S Adama…
Maybe you were out of the country during the Wright fiasco, or the New Yorker cover, or Larry Sinclair lies?
These things were all personal things and had VERY little to do with his policy of the man himself as president, but the media, and I mean ALL the media bombarded for weeks on it….
now it is Palins turn…

Palin is whinning already? maybe she should talk to McCains advisor who says all Americans are whinners….

geevil….then she should have reclussed herself from moderation.
She knew she was writing this book…
Now because of her disregard this debate could be jeopardized.
Most viewers will see if biased in some way.

How elese are we suppose to know her policies, Her views, if it wernt for the media we have to know if she shares some of the same views as us what are we suppose to do call her?

This lady has no brains, little education, and is making a complete idiot of herself. Someone, release her – and us – of the embarrassment.

“geevill,
I don’t think you should make such assumptions about Gwen because of her race”
Ok. I will assume Ifill has no racial or any other bias other than financial. However, she has a FINANCIAL stake in the election. Her book sales is contingent of an Obama victory.

Palin: “I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news too. Alaska isn’t a foreign country, where, it’s kind of suggested and it seems like, ‘Wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of Washington, D.C. may be thinking and doing when you live up there in Alaska?’ Believe me, Alaska is like a microcosm of America”
LOL. SNL Saturday night will be great.

I don’t want Joe Six pack to have the nuclear codes.
And with a degree in journalism, she should be able to name a paper she reads.
I don’t think evangelicals will be happy with her saying she doesn’t go to one particular church. It sounds wishy washy.

geevil: “We all know she is politcally and racially biased.”
Anyone else not surprised to see the Republicans dealing out the ol’ “she’s a racist!” card? Geevil – you’ve completely lost your right to make up accusations about Obama supporters being the ones to ‘accuse (McCain supporters) of being racist if they raise the slightest complaint about (Obama).’
Her book will not do any better financially if Obama wins than if he loses. Quit working so hard to whine about being persecuted – the election is not a sporting event. By January it will be a historical event and this history book will appeal regardless of if Obama wins or not.

I wonder how everyone is gonna feel when Obama sends all of the quantanimo prisoners of war to the states for trials where they will get court appointed attornies and we will be forced to pay millions of dollars in taxpayer money to defend the terrorists rights. It makes me sick to even think about it Maybe Obama can defend some of them personally.

Look at the title and subject matter of Ifill’s book. If I didn’t know better I would of thought it was Michelle Obama’s thesis.

Anyone else not surprised to see the Republicans dealing out the ol’ “she’s a racist!”
#1 – I am a Democrat
#2 -Ifill’s book is about race.

Anyone not reading the papers today is doing themselves a favor 95% of the are just liberal rags trying to push their liberal agendas. You are not missing anything not reading them

I tell you what, let’s keep this on the up and up. At the McCain/Obama debate, let Jerome R. Corsi moderate, or better, Lou Dobbs.
People with a financial interest in the outcome should be disqualified as moderators.

Why is it when Charlie Gibson or Katie Couric interview Palin and she is unable to answer the question, Charlie and Katie are too hard on her????????? Anyone else has had to face the press. She is not a prima donna, if she wants to be in the political world, she had better learn a few things – like foreign policy, economy to mention a couple of items.

Ifills book was in the works before she was picked to be the moderator for the debate
both campaigns have to agree on the moderator
so either, the mccain camp didnt do their homework (like the palin pick) or they didnt see any significant reason to not object to her as a moderator for this debate
there you have it

also ifills book would be written were obama to win or not, this is a huge significant time in politics for us

just
palin is scary she obviously knows zero about the world
she knows about alaska and thats it, she should have stayed in alaska
this vp could be running the white house
and i know nothing more scary other than maybe one of the bloggers on here running hte country

“I don’t fight it, I invite it”…yeah, like she told the Alaska investigating team to “hold her accountable, I will cooperate”…
She seems to say one thing–to sound good–and then turns around and in action, does something else–not cooperate. I can just see how she invites the media, and then will blame them. She really has only herself to blame, and John McCain for putting her in her position. He’s got it figured out, if he loses, he can blame it on Palin! He doesn’t seem to care who takes the blame as long as it is not him. If he loses, he will finally admit that she was not qualified and brought him down. I can’t wait for that day!
I do feel bad for Palin, she is like a child who wants to please. But she is an adult, and should act as such. Can’t name what newspapers or magazines she reads? Probably doesn’t read anything, judging by her knowlegde on what’s going on in the world. Will read whatever is put in front of her? Tells us she is not the one seeking to learn, curious to know, but rather she has to browse through what’s handed to her that’s why she can’t even say the name of one publication, she doesn’t know them!
Even a Joe Sixpack can communicate better than she does, she is NOT EVEN QUALIFIED to call herself a Joe Sixpack!
Please, America, realize who you are putting in office. Just because you understand what she says, doesn’t mean she is saying anything good at all. Look at Bush, people voted for him because they could relate to him, one of us, well, look what happens when you put a dumb person in office. Let’s not repeat the same mistake a 3rd time!
Nothing against dumb people, just don’t want them running this country!
Enough is enough!

This is very simple… Palin is just a MORON!

Typical Palin.
In debate’s, she does the following…
1) She will ignore the question and instead talk about small town Alaska. In fact, she will put down Washington.
2) Never give a specific answer to anything.
Palin has never lost a debate.
Biden has lost every presidential debate he’s been in.
After the debate, watch for McCain to be leading in all the polls.

Sarah Palin has become a caricature of herself. She IS a cartoon!
It is almost beyond comprehension how ANYONE can take this woman seriously.
Columnist Kathleen Parker, who normally leans to the right, has suggested that Palin should withdraw from the race and give McCain a second chance to get it right.
That’s a WONDERFUL idea!

When I was more involved in politics, I too “read them all”. I’d been easier to tell you what I didn’t read.
However, if I were gov. of a state, local media would probably dominate 90 percent of the media I read of listened to. And the VAST majority of my time would be to the service of my constituents; NOT to the country as a whole (national socialism, er, I mean “shared responsibility), or to the world as a whole (global socialism. eg Global Poverty Tax).
OMT. Thanks for the “heads up” on Ifill, Katmandu (Oct 1, 2008 8:26:27 AM). It’s no wonder the MSM is hemmorraging readers, viewers, and money.

In three recent Governor’s elections in Kansas, women candidates were attacked and belittled by their male opponents.
Voters responded accordingly and elected the women candidates in all three elections.
Knowing the vitriole and sarcasm exhibited in past performanced of Joe Biden, it will be interesting to see if he is able to curb his nastiness when debating Sarah Palin.
Or, maybe Joe Biden should try to get a “deferment” from the debate to avoid any potential misstep this close to the election.
After all, deferments worked for him 5 times during Viet Nam.

Sorry about the double post and the typos. Not enough coffee:)
Also, I think this is funny. Obama supporters here claiming that Gov Palin isn’t “qualified” to be president.
That’s right. Obama.
Too funny.

North Korea calls itself the Democratic Republic of Korea. Are they democratic?
They can call themselves what they like, but the style of governance is considered fascism in Nazi Germany.
I am very aware that the extreme left can produce dictators too. China is an example. Myanmar claims to be a socialist country too- and look at the balance of power there. The Soviet Union for example.
What I’m stating is Obama doesn’t preach any sort of radical ideology that Hitler did. He himself would have been considered an undesirable.
America’s standing has been dragged through the mud because of the Bush admin’s foreign policy- the shoot first talk later kind of foreign policy the int’l community hates and McCain would continue. Obama represents a breakaway from all of that, and his soaring oratory has made him an inspiration to people,that’s all.

There’s nothing condescending about the question if you actually read newspapers. Calling it condescending assumes she doesn’t read anything, with the implication that it’s in fact good not to read anything (maybe reading is considered elitist in some parts). And Katie the elitist is out to rub it in. So go suit yourself.

Greymatter,
“I get most of my info about world affairs from the newspapers.”
Let me guess…Democrat?

The McCain camp is claiming it didn’t know about Gwen Ifill’s book prior to agreeing to her as moderator for the VP debate:
I confirmed for us here on GretaWire: the McCain campaign did NOT know about Gwen Ifill’s book (I think I told them when I made my efforts – emails about midnight – to find out!) I am stunned….the campaign (actually both) should have been told before the campaign agreed to have her moderate. It simply is not fair – in law, this would create a mistrial.
If that’s true, it just shows the McCain campaign’s incompetence. The debate moderators were agreed to on August 6. Ifill’s book was reported in the Associated Press two weeks earlier:
“We have an awkward history about how to talk about race in the nation and in newsrooms,” says Gwen Ifill, senior correspondent for PBS’ “The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer” and author of “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama,” slated for publication early next year.
Of course, when you have Drudge on your side the facts don’t matter much.

BTW, Bhrandon, nice cut n’ paste from huffpo. That tells us all we need to know…….

We have a President who’s proud of the fact that he doesn’t read newspapers or magazines. What’s the big deal?

Bhrandon
You’re right. I can’t believe that the McCain campaign doesn’t pay attention to every leftist pronouncement that some Obama sycophant has written a new book…or that they’d ignore your emails.
That’s the proof that McCain isn’t ready to be president?
Are you allowed to vote?

Yet, another PERFECT example of media bias. WHY in the world is what papers Palin reads front page news? Perhaps she didn’t want to single out any newspapers to seem unfair. Are you suggesting that she doesn’t read the news? Honestly, what rubbish!
And yet, you continue to ignore the HUGE issues of Obama’s involvement with ACORN, his thug tactics using tax funded police to suppress freedome of speech in Missouri, or “Obama youth” creepily being forced to sing songs about Obama. THAT is news.
You tell us, Mr. T, why should the public trust ABC, or the media, when you have clear ridiculous and obvious bias like this? What exactly are you afraid of, that would make you ignore such significant aspects of Obama?

We do not know Gov. Palin.She has not been before the American public long enough to be considered for the vice presidency.People want to compare her to Senator Obama.He has been under public vetting and interaction on a national scale for about two years now.If all of you people want to get upset because she was asked what publications she reads…This is just a dumb defense of something that is indefendable.The woman may be president.I mean did Katie ask about that probe into that investigation against her.Katie should.Why in the world people want to treat a possible law maker like a beauty queen I never know.Bottom line is Palin needs to be asked all the hard questions just like Obama,McCain and Biden have and will.This election is not a game, hockey or anything like it.

“Yet, another PERFECT example of media bias. WHY in the world is what papers Palin reads front page news?”
One of what 8 blog posts in a day is front page news?
Always go to see a right winger get themselves up in a lather over nothing.

Oh, good grief. She gives an interview that is much smoother and more solid than her previous ones, and none of you media folks are talking about her answers on abortion, gay rights, evolution, etc.– answers that show that she is NOT the far right nut bar media wish to spin her as. I have to wonder about the questions that elicited these answers of course– reminiscent of the infamous Kitty Dukakis question from a long-ago debate (don’t want ya’ll to think I only defend Republicans. *G*), Couric asked an inflammatory question related to abortion. She didn’t ask “So, are there any exceptions to your belief that abortion is morally wrong?” Instead she challenged, “So, if a fifteen year old girl is the victim of rape or incest, you still think she should not have an abortion?” (I may not have the wording exactly right, but that’s the basis of her question.) She immediately followed up with a question about the morning after pill. Somehow not the phrasing of questions she tossed to Joe Biden last week. She wasn’t challenging him constantly, asking him to defend his statements that a drunk driver killed his wife and daughter when the driver was not under the influence. That would have been tacky, I agree, but so were the questions she was presenting to Palin and that didn’t slow her down a bit.
Anyway, today, rather than a post on the subject of, “Hey, remember all those silly rumors about Palin being a hard-core strict creationist, complete with silly ideas about the devil and dinosaurs? Remember how so many folks fell for that, including Matt Damon and other Hollywood types who lambasted her for views she never even held? Well, last night’s interview should put those rumors to rest, as she presented a perfectly normal, perfectly reasonable support for teaching evolution in school and talked specifically about keeping faith out of the science classroom, as her father the science teacher always did.” I didn’t see that post here, Mr. Tapper. I remember people rushing to knock down persistent false rumors about Obama, from Muslim faith to fishy birth certificates. So why not defend Gov. Palin from the kook rumors as well?
No, we’d rather focus on the one awkward moment in the interview, when she declined to get specific about her reading matter. Know what? At that point in the interview, after all the questions Katy Couric has posed to her over the past week, I think I would have blown my top in Palin’s shoes. I would have withered her by asking if Katy planned to ask Joe Biden about his choice of news sources, or Obama, or even McCain. We all know how ridiculous it would have sounded for Katy to ask such a question of these men. Yet, no one questions why on earth she was quizzing Palin about it. Palin is quite within her rights to wonder what the catch is, where the gotcha is hiding, and thus wisely declining to get specific. Does Katy really think Palin has never read a major newspaper? Do you? Get serious. Stop being so insulting.

militarymom: You know after reading most of your posts I’m becoming very suspicious of you. I’m beginning to wonder WHAT MILITARY are you associated with. I’m starting to think things like the PLO, HAMMAS, ALQUIDA, IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY GUARD, etc. Could you help us out a little bit and be a little more spicific, hhmmmmmm?

POLITICAL PUNCH By: Jack Tapper is my number one read every day. I make it a point to read every one, often commenting on at least one. Further go on and post tem to: Mixx, Digg & Twitter; when I without exception post a comment.
Thank you Mr Tapper keep up the great work and I look forward to reading you again tomorrow.

So what level of specificity are you after, Jake? You actually expected Sarah Palin to say exactly what sources of news she uses? As someone else noted below, would you ask that of Barack Obama? No, you would assume that he peruses the usual suspects, like the New York Times and the Washington Post. But that would not be an interesting thing to ask him. So why ask Sarah Palin? Well, to insult her, it seems to me. She says she reads broadly and I believe her. Katy Couric clearly did not, and neither do you. How strange. If the questions had been brought up some different way, in some less confrontational, less condescending way, I think Ms. Couric would have gotten a much different answer. Why not ask, for example, “Alaska is pretty remote from the lower 48 states. Do you have ready access to the New York Times there, for example? Do you read it in print, online, or do you ignore it entirely?” Pose the questions as if you expect an intelligent, positive answer and maybe you’ll get one. Pose the questions as if you are trying to shine a spotlight on what you have decided is someone’s ignorance and you will meet resistance. Get Real.

I see above wherein readers claim that they don’t know Sara Palin . . . and then make insulting comments that absolutely prove they don’t.
Question: Do you guys really want to get to know the candidates, truly?
That’s easy. Evaluate them on their accomplishments, not the words.
At the upcoming debates ask them to reveal their greatest accomplishments while in office?
And by accomplishment, I do not mean what title they’ve achieved, but what they’ve actually done.
Being Chairman of a Senate committee for the last twenty years is of little importance if you’ve just been warming a seat. What have you actually accomplished?
The specific accomplishments a candidate is most proud of provide true insight into their highest priorities, thinking, governing philosophy, ability to work with others, and so much more.
Don’t snake-oil me with platitudes, hopes, and dreams. Give me something I can really sink my teeth into: real accomplishments. Money talks, bull**it walks. You know, I’m precisely lookin’ for “where the rubber meets the road” kinda stuff.
If ABC’s Charlie Gibson and CBS’s Katie Couric are going to hold themselves out as true journalists then why did they not ask Gov Palin a single question about her accomplishments? Perhaps its because she isn’t their preferred candidate? Okay, I can understand that; but shouldn’t they have disqualified themselves from participating in the interview then? I mean, that what a real professional would do.

OMT, I had a politically diverse group of folks over for dinner this weekend.
NONE of the liberals or “moderates” knew of Rezko, Ayres, Johnson, Raines, or Frank Marshall Davis till I told them. You should have seen the look on their faces. It was like I just kicked them in the gut.
Nearly all of the conservatives knew. They’d all heard of Wright.
I’ve talked three people this week into cancelling their subscriptions to their local socialist rags. Two cancelled their Wichita Eagle-Beacon subscriptions, and one Denver Post. I will work to see both newspapers declare bankruptcy in my lifetime.

Exactly, Russ. Enough with gotcha journalism. Sarah’s accomplishments while in office are part of her biography & resume, and she might even know them by heart already. She would come across as able and confident and knowledgable. But the bias media keep shooting zingers at her instead, just hoping to trip her up on camera. Enough already! Start asking some hardball questions with Biden and Obama! Start off with what newspapers and magazines they read!

“No Republican could ever get away with having a … minister like Jeremiah Wright”
Funny you should mention that just when Palin seems to be denying her membership in her church. Looks like she is getting away with the fact that she sits in church listening to anti-semetic rants.

Christmas must have come early for the Democrates.And the gift is…….Sarah Palin.

Speaking of wacky clerics, Palin hasn’t distanced herself from the witch-hunting pastor Thomas Muthee. In fact, she credited him for her election as governor. “As I was mayor and Pastor Muthee was here and he was praying over me… He said ‘Lord make a way and let her do this next step.’ And that’s exactly what happened.”
I wonder if Muthee has been called in for another witchcraft-rebuking prayer session with Palin for the step up to VP.

To Palin fans in general:
Her comment that Joe SixPack is “finally” being represented in the vice-presidency means that she DOES NOT know her history! Apparently the names Harry S Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, and Gerald R. Ford (all from poor or lower-middle class backgrounds) don’t ring a bell with her… and those are just late 20th-century V-Ps.
To bosco5021:
Honey, those aren’t US History AP questions by a long shot! I teach a “regular”-level US history class and I know my students could have aced them. Speaking of my students, here is the best quote ever from one of them (a 16-year-old girl): “Palin would be great as one of my friend’s moms, but she is NOT ready to be vice-president!”
Amen, my child!!