Palin: Levi Johnston ‘Part of the Family’; McCain Staffers Thought Couric Interview Went Well
ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: The first excerpts of Oprah Winfrey’s interview with former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin have been released — and it looks like Palin is pursuing something of a ceasefire with the father of her grandchild, if not with former McCain campaign staffers. TUNE IN: Tues., Nov. 17 - Barbara Walters Interviews Fmr. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Jokingly asked by Oprah if Levi Johnston will be invited to Thanksgiving dinner with the Palins, the former Alaska governor was diplomatic: “You know, that's a great question. And it's lovely to think that he would ever even consider such a thing,” Palin said. “Because of course you want — he is a part of the family and you want to bring him in the fold and kind of under your wing. And he needs that, too, Oprah. I think he needs to know that he is loved and he has the most beautiful child and this can all work out for good. It really can. We don't have to keep going down this road of controversy and drama all the time. We're not really into the drama. We don't really like that. We're more productive.” In the other piece of the interview released today, Palin said that McCain campaign aides thought her first interview with CBS’ Katie Couric went well — though she says she knew better. FLASHBACK: Sept. 11, 2008 – Palin's Interview with Charles Gibson “The campaign said, ‘Right on. Good. You're showing your independence. This is what America needs to see and it was a good interview,’ ” Palin said. “And of course I'm thinking, if you thought that was a good interview, I don't know what a bad interview is, because I knew it was a bad interview.” The interview with Palin will air on Oprah Winfrey’s show Monday. In addition, Barbara Walters will sit down with Palin for a wide-ranging five-part series of ABC News interviews to begin airing on "Good Morning America" Nov. 17, the morning her highly anticipated book "Going Rogue: An American Life" is released.
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I’m actually a little disapointed Oprah caved and gave this woman the time of day.
Posted by: dan | November 12, 2009, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm
“I knew it was a bad interview.” — Well I’ll be dammed. She DOES have a clue.
Posted by: Yukon Sam | November 12, 2009, 5:02 pm 5:02 pm
I think Oprah Winfrey should be interviewing Barack and Michelle.
Posted by: H1N1hysteria | November 12, 2009, 5:02 pm 5:02 pm
I think Sarah is a great role model for young girls. She is a real down to earth person and not pretentious like so many politicians. She is like a fresh breath of air.
Posted by: greenthumbx | November 12, 2009, 5:05 pm 5:05 pm
Role model! Be dumb and pretty and you to can have 15 minutes of fame!
Posted by: Palinisanidiot | November 12, 2009, 5:07 pm 5:07 pm
What a class act, she was very gracious towards Levi. If I had a fame hungry monster like that running around with no regard for my daughters feelings or my grandsons future I’d be tempted to be a little “less diplomatic”…to put it mildly.
Posted by: Debsy | November 12, 2009, 5:11 pm 5:11 pm
It’s real easy to tell someone that you knew an interview was bad more than a year after the fact. It’s especially easy to make yourself sound smarter than others when nobody really knows what you were thinking.
This woman should be treated as yesterday’s news. If you think Goerge W. Bush was bad for this country, he’d look like FDR compared to what Sarah Palin would try to do. The Patriot Act would seem like the Bill of Rights under a Palin administration.
Posted by: Bob | November 12, 2009, 5:16 pm 5:16 pm
How many of us have not abandoned our relatives because of their youthful indulgence and inexperience in civil condut? Levi is still the father of her grandchild and perhaps one day will be wiser. A prodigal son-in-law? Much of the criticism is short sighted.
Posted by: TX_MBell | November 12, 2009, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm
Will Sarah be giving another interview this year while the guy kills turkeys in the background?
I would think Sarah would be more sympathetic to other turkeys.
Posted by: Doppelganger | November 12, 2009, 5:19 pm 5:19 pm
Typical liberal response for the first comment. At least Oprah, Walters are giving this woman her time, instead of the media who basically created her image for her. It’s about time she speaks out about the truth, what really happened on the campaign trail as well as how the media made sure to trash her as she was a big threat to “the one”.
Posted by: FightTheSmears | November 12, 2009, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm
Oprah should give Obama and Michelle an interview? Are you KIDDING? Haven’t we had a year of media overkill on both of them? Obama has been on TIME’s cover now, what, 36 times in one year?
Please…
Posted by: FightTheSmears | November 12, 2009, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm
did i hear someone poot?
Posted by: pooting for palin | November 12, 2009, 5:27 pm 5:27 pm
“What a class act, she was very gracious towards Levi. If I had a fame hungry monster like that running around with no regard for my daughters feelings or my grandsons future I’d be tempted to be a little “less diplomatic”…to put it mildly.” That’s why you are not a politician. Suggesting a cease-fire makes her look “gracious”. What’s more, who knows what more Levi knows about Palin. It definitely makes strategic sense to turn your former-friend-turned-enemy back into a friend rather than to further antagonize him.
Posted by: teddymaniac | November 12, 2009, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm
Oh please… killing turkeys in the background. Like most that are pushing their bigotry around they don’t want to see how the sausage is made or how the turkey ends up in the freezer. When they cook it they don’t see it as a one living breathing creature. Like most of the programs they are demanding from the government they don’t see the lives striving to make an honest living; only to have much of their income taxed to support those that feel they are entitle to a government package. A package they don’t consider or care is made possible by those that still believe in an honest day’s pay and honorable living.
Posted by: TX_MBell | November 12, 2009, 5:33 pm 5:33 pm
Wouldn’t Palin be a good Senator? I think it would make Feinstein, Boxer, and that lady from Maryland face reality. It would make Boxer think about just putting more cars on LA freeways as a solution maybe; Feinstein would realize that America isn’t made up of a totatlity of San Franciscos. They would have to shake the dust off their boots.
Posted by: Ted | November 12, 2009, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm
Palin is one of us–she “gets” the working class.
Unlike the snobby elite millionaires in the WH/Congress who live in their tone-deaf bubble.
They get Wall Steet not Main Street.
Palin 2012
Posted by: ollie | November 12, 2009, 6:03 pm 6:03 pm
Sarah shows her rogue side by going on Oprah–Obama’s buddy.
I’m sure Oprah was fair.
She wouldn’t risk another backlash like last year when she snubbed Sarah.
It’s great to see Palin again!!
Nothing scares the left more than Palin.
Posted by: bailey | November 12, 2009, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm
Please, Please, Please put Palin on the republican ticket.
Signed,
Educated Americans (aka Liberals)
Posted by: Nico | November 12, 2009, 6:36 pm 6:36 pm
Wow…look at the libs sweat!! I love it. They can’t take her BECAUSE she’s brave enough to tell it LIKE IT IS! You go girl. The leftist liberal media has trashed you long enough. The rest of the dissers on here are women-haters. If we’ve heard how clueless she was once…we’ve heard it a million times. Shut up already! She’s a decent human being! It’s better than the empty suit we have in the W/H right now. What a DUD!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Kristen | November 12, 2009, 8:08 pm 8:08 pm
Keep running you libs. We’re right behind you! I’ll defend Sarah anyday over the goofballs in the W/H we have to contend with now. We’re not even half-way thru this administration. Ughhh!!!! We’ll all be broke by the next inaugeration. Our kids and grandkids will owe for the rest of their lives. They will never be able to do anything but pay taxes.
Posted by: Kristen | November 12, 2009, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm
…gracious toward Levi? She was lying through her teeth, and Didn’t never answer the question! Katie Couric pulled the “wool” from over “shallow” self, and exposed her with a simple question….what do you read?
Kisten…Bush left a BROKE U.S. the last inaugeration…….REMEMBER!!!!!DUH!!!!!
Posted by: sara | November 12, 2009, 9:50 pm 9:50 pm
So Sarah Palin is dumb because of one interview? Critics called Reagan a dunce too. We know how that turned out.
If Palin is dumb then what the heck is Obama?
Was it brilliant when he said the police acted stupidly, even though Obama didn’t have all the facts?
Was it smart to laugh on 60 minutes when asked about the economy?
And worst of all was Obama’s cheerful shout outs only hours after a terrorist attack.
Yes Obama is brilliant and Palin is dumb. But she is one thing he will never be–one of us.
Posted by: bailey | November 12, 2009, 11:00 pm 11:00 pm
Palin has more courage in her pinkie toes than Obama has in his whole body.
I’m pretty sure she would call Ft Hood a terrorist attack but Obama can’t because he won a Nobel PC Prize.
He’s a weak indecisive leader, and the more he dithers on Afghanistan the weaker he looks, especially to our enemies.
Cheney was right. We are less safe because of Obama.
Palin 2012.
Posted by: millie | November 12, 2009, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm
Sarah Palin is making a ton of money for making a fool of herself. Her naivete and inability to communicate speak to lack of qualifications for any public office. You are right George W. looks like Einstein next to her.
Don’t buy the book. She is dumb enough to tell all on these interviews and who cares anyway?
I have wanted a woman for President or Vice President my whole life. I know hundreds of woman who are more qualified. What a shame that’s the best we could do.
Posted by: j | November 12, 2009, 11:23 pm 11:23 pm
There is nothing liberals have to fear from a sitting exec who’s does the king edward. The truth is that any conservative would be foolish to think there is any kind of political viability to her at this point. She should attempt a political marriage with fiorina if she hopes to inspire female conservatives as a bloc. Both would benefit considering the lack of agendaic substance they exude individually.
Posted by: lopsidedlarry | November 13, 2009, 12:38 am 12:38 am
I think more of her comments regarding Levi than his comments regarding her for the past week on the tabloid shows. She could have said that instead of getting ready to show everyone his package, that he could bring his publicity hound behind home, get a job, and support his child.
Posted by: Melanie | November 13, 2009, 12:53 am 12:53 am
I don’t see how anyone can comment honestly without having seen the interview with Oprah. I only hope Oprah was fair. Palin, a prospect for President? I think that was dashed w/ the smear campain. I just hope she is able to leave all that with her bills paid and some, her credibility, and her integrity intact. Michelle Bachmann is another fine woman that calls it as she sees it. I would like to see Palin back her. She really didn’t have that, and would be the person that could probably get it done. God bless Palin.
Posted by: Donna | November 13, 2009, 12:55 am 12:55 am
The executive propect was dashed by her own hand. Personal problems caused her to abandon the people of the state of alaska. She should command decidedly less credibility than joe leiberman for such an act of executive cowardice. Yet we are somehow to believe this to be the mark of some sort of idealogical hero or martyr? The only thing that scares me more is the mindset that would espouse her as a savior of sorts. I prefer the term harbinger.
Posted by: lopsidedlarry | November 13, 2009, 1:57 am 1:57 am
I hope and pray that she can talk some sense into this young man. She is doing the right thing not wanting him to him to ruin his life posing for playboy. He really needs to think about the little baby and be a better person for the SON.
Posted by: Sue | November 13, 2009, 2:06 am 2:06 am
He don’t need to be sorry for the past and look into a real future with the SON.
Posted by: Sue | November 13, 2009, 2:08 am 2:08 am
Palin is not my favorite candidate. She is correct in her views, but comes off as a runway model instead of a statesman. Put your stock in Alan Keyes 2012. There’s a statesman.
For someone to call liberals “educated” is laughable. They are the biggest fools in the universe. Book smarts? marginal; but wisdom? not in a thousand years.
Ronald Reagan put it best:
“The problem with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s that they know so much that isn’t so.”
How about this one:
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help. ”
- Ronald Reagan
Alan Keyes 2012!
Posted by: EPU | November 13, 2009, 4:08 am 4:08 am
Debsy wrote: “If I had a fame hungry monster like that running around with no regard for my daughters feelings or my grandsons future I’d be tempted to be a little “less diplomatic”…to put it mildly”
If I had a daughter that ran around having sex I’d teach her about protection and buy her the *pill*.
Posted by: Jennifer | November 13, 2009, 8:04 am 8:04 am
“I knew it was a bad interview – I ##!@! Katie Couric.” Hey Sarah, do you suppose you’re really transferring your anger there? You know? Getting out of that whole personal responsibility thing?
Posted by: secondlook | November 13, 2009, 8:05 am 8:05 am
“I’m sure Oprah was fair.
She wouldn’t risk another backlash like last year when she snubbed Sarah.”
One of the biggest issues on the right is the inability to dig for some actual truth over there. You guys would not be so bad if you’d learn to stop being played. Oprah never snubbed Sarah. ALL that was was Drudge making up some “rumor” to make it look like that. Sarah never tried to go on Oprah, Oprah was never asked. See how this works? You guys bought it the nano Drudge pulled it.
Posted by: secondlook | November 13, 2009, 8:13 am 8:13 am
The sound of the name Palin for the educated Americans also known as liberals (are they joking with the “educated” I wouldn’t know) is a nightmare in the making. Poor liberals they are going to suffer more come 2010 and 2012.
Posted by: karga | November 13, 2009, 8:13 am 8:13 am
I would have a little more respect for her if she completed her responsibility in Alaska but it was keeping her from making money which is what she is about. I am disappointed Opra is giving her some time on her show but if no one watches…that will take care of that. Pallin gets more coverage than she has actually earned by accomplishments. She is a self centered person using her children for props instead of staying home to raise them especially after one became pregnant. She has special needs child who needs time and attention which he is not getting from her. Unfortunately some right wingers think she is the next Joan of Arc, however, remember what happened to her…she went doen in flames and hopefully, that will happen to Sarah. She is no Hillary, never was, never will be. This woman has class, raised her daughter properly and there was never a scandle concerning her. Her husband, however, did, but she rose above it and showed her strength and class.
Posted by: talmag | November 13, 2009, 11:53 am 11:53 am
Can you imagine this person as our US President. The language she uses; she has NO class. Down to earth is one thing but does she have to act as if she has no idea how to use the english language. This is not what I invision our first woman president or vice president to be.
Posted by: Tessa | November 17, 2009, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm