Posted on 06/13/2009 9:20:41 AM PDT by PurpleMountains
The attempts to marginalize Sarah Palin with insults, false charges and crude jokes are clearly because they fear her and they hate her. Yes, some left-wing pundits like Katie Couric were able to trip her up due to her lack of experience in the big leagues of talking heads and vicious, left-wing blogs and journalists, but let no-one forget that it was Joe Biden who made a fool of himself in his debate with Palin. During the debate, Biden made 17 documented errors of fact on the Consitution and on recent history, particularly in foreign affairs, while Sarah made none.
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Biden made no errors. They were lies.
What, was it child molesters get in free night at Letterman?
It was an interview. What do you want her to do? Say nothing and have a blank stare? Next time someone questions you about something you believe in, do me a favor and take your own advice and don’t stand up for what you think is right and tell me how that worked for you.
And yes, you are buying totally into the liberal mindset that conservatives should shut up and be pushed around.
What do you mean, “now”?
I thought when Obama and McCain announced their picks that McCain made the better choice. Basically nothing that has happened in the last nine months has given me any reason to change my mind.
Look at my reply in #17 about this “articulate and to the point” you’re claiming Sarah has been. She hasn’t, and she rarely is. When she starts talking, she really does start stringing together thoughts and words in a rambling incoherent jumble.
I don’t think she’s stupid, she just lacks self-assurance and chokes when she’s speaking to a hostile audience. Her tone and demeanor comes across particularly defensive in those situations.
Has it occurred to you that perhaps the interviewer is out to get her. Most of em are because they are afraid of her. That is what liberals do. Whom they cannot control, they destroy.
I’m not saying Sarah should shut up and be pushed around.
I’m saying she should have handled it with more dignity, not gotten down in the mud with pigs trying to escalate an insult war, and not milked it so transparently for her own benefit.
It just strikes me that what’s been lost in all of this is that a young girl at a sensitive age is in the middle of it all. Instead it’s been turned into a war between Sarah Palin and David Letterman. Sarah has really made it all about stringing up Letterman, attacking him to boost herself with her base, when it should have been about protecting her daughter and demanding she be off limits to media attacks. I just never got the sense that it was ever really about Willow for the Palins or the media. That’s my own gut feeling based on what I’ve observed. But yeah, it has made for good entertainment.
Absolutely the interviewer is out to get Sarah.
Partly because they want to destroy her, but also partly because she makes herself a target by being so defensive and thin-skinned. That’s how it is in public life. Only the strong survive. It’s basically the schoolyard all over again, but this time, the nerds in the newsmedia are the bullies. And they have some pretty big chips on their shoulders.
If Sarah ever wants to win, she’s going to need a better game face.
“That’s how it is in public life. Only the strong survive.”
Not if you’re a liberal. Anything they say and do is hunky dorey. Asspress reports on family dogs and planting flowers as headline stories.
You buy into their crap way too much. People are tired of it and drawing a line. When they finish destroying Sarah, the press and Dems will trash the next GOP star to stick their heads out of the foxhole. McCain does it your way. Is that what you advocate?
Wait a minute, I saw one of those interviews. First of all, Sarah was AMBUSHED into the Letterman issue.
Sarah came on to talk about the OIL PIPELINE, not smug smutty Gutterman. How’s anyone supposed to “articulate” in an ambush situation?
This now makes me suspect that Gutterman was deliberately attempting to silence the discussion of the pipeline by distracting the media. You prove Gutterman succeeded.
Defensive and thin skinned? If it were my daughter, your darned right I’d be all over that jerk Letterman like a fly on manure. This isn’t just about politics, but, her child. Any mama bear will protect it’s cubs. So, if one thinks she’s wrong for doing so, then I wonder who the fool is.
This woman has taken more pot shots than anyone deserves. And, why? Because she is a conservative, and a threat to the left, as was Ronald Reagan.
Those who think she’s wrong, should look deep into their hearts and ask yourselves what you would do. If you’d allow your 14 year old, or any of your children to be so degraded by a so-called comedian, then I question your values.
The recent interviews with Lauer & Blitzer have been some of Palin’s best since she first entered the campaign last fall.
She covered the pipeline and handled the Willow scandal exactly the way it needed to be handled. She shrugged off any ridicule directed at her, but made certain that joking about rape of minors should not be tolerated by either party, or decent Americans.
She was eloquent, calm and passionate at the appropriate times and was never rattled by the attempts to derail her.
I've listened to her interviews regarding Letterman and your desription does not match what I've seen and heard. She has gained praises from many quarters about her interviews.
IMHO, maybe it's not her delivery but your perception that is under par.
“No wonder young girls especially have such low self-esteem in America when we think it’s funny for a so-called comedian to get away with being able to make such a remark as he did and to think that that’s acceptable.”
Riiiiiight. It’s my perception, not Palin’s coherency that is under par...
What are you, some kind of prissy English teacher who was or is a debate coach?
That's exactly how people in my world think and speak. She didn't have a prepared speech on a teleprompter. She was responding to a series of crafted questions to elicit answers that would hurt her position.
She was as coherent or more so than any other public figure being interviewed in a news broadcast during the last 48 hours that I've seen and heard. But who am I to judge, since I think and speak incoherently as well.
You win, you are the perfectionist and the rest of us suck and shouldn't be heard in public.
Look, I just call it as I see it.
The problem with getting emotionally invested in a politician or celebrity figure is you lose all perspective.
Sarah Palin’s jumbled communication is like George W. Bush all over again. We just had to endure 8 years of trying to defend his basic intellect from constant attack from all quarters of the globe, and it is a battle we never did win. Why would any conservative be eager to sign up for that again.
I am much more interested in finding a leader who can articulate a coherent case for conservatism, and maybe even propose some real solutions.
The fact that we haven’t had such a leader for a decade now is why the Republican party and conservatism are so dilapidated and in a state of disrepair.
We can never win a debate on policy if we have to spend all of our time arguing with the opposition over whether or not our leader is an idiot.
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