Posted on 08/29/2015 11:51:02 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On her fledgling, and embarrassingly low-tech, network, Sarah Palin interviewed Donald Trump, and managed a feat no journalist has yet. She made it boring.
As in-focus civilians flowed up the Trump Tower taking selfies in the background, an inexplicably out-of-focus Donald Trump sought to explain his rising poll numbers on Sarah Palin’s janky new program on an unknown right-wing news network.
“We’re bringing back—I use the term again, (as) it hasn’t been used in a long time—the silent majority,” he told Palin at the tail-end of her 10 p.m. newscast, On Point with Sarah Palin, on Friday night.
Of course, Donald Trump appeared once again unaware that the Silent Majority most popularly referred to those Americans who supported the Vietnam War, often viewed as one of the greatest quagmires of our time.
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But Palin, herself, full of platitudes on a network too new or broken to sell ad space (fear not, One America News ran pseudo-PSAs to break up the interview segments instead) did not call him out on it. Instead, the former Republican vice presidential nominee-cum-wider reach public access news anchor offered hard-hitting questions such as this:
“We appreciate your battles here.”
“You’re crushing it in the polls.”
“(Talk about) the respect (veterans) have for a truth talker, as opposed to getting punched in the nose in the last seven years under Obama.”
To be clear, this was a set-‘em-up, knock-‘em-down campaign speech and not an interview—one in which Sarah Palin largely dominated and made Donald Trump seem like a level-headed centrist by comparison.
Palin preceded Trump’s interview with other ones featuring Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz—both lagging and pixelated on Skype—and, for some reason, Orrin Hatch.
In Ted Cruz’s interview, he called Planned Parenthood “a criminal enterprise” that he would prosecute if he took office due to viral videos he believed implicated the organization in some kind of baby-parts-for-cash sting. He, of course, ignored Friday’s revelations from the New York Times that said those same videos were heavily doctored all along.
Then, Palin greeted Donald Trump, asking him to set the record straight because “I don’t think we’re getting the truth out of The White House,” just like she was taught in journalism school. (Journalism, after all, was the emphasis on her bachelor’s degree diploma, which she earned over five years from four different colleges.)
Then came the random haymaker. Behold:
“You’re seeing some idiots in the press. They’re misrepresenting your exchange with some political activists—the father of the Clinton staffer, Univision’s Jorge Ramos—and you schooled that radical activist,” she said.
Ramos has won eight Emmy Awards for excellence in journalism.
“And it was the right thing to do because I don’t think he’s going to pull that again. Where’d you get your guts for that radical confrontation?” she asked.
Of course, when Jorge Ramos was forced out of Trump’s interview room earlier this week, he was immediately told to “get out of my country” by a Trump supporter. When the supporter was rebuffed by Ramos—who told him he was, in fact, a U.S. citizen—the heckler replied with, “Well, whatever.”
But that’s not the point! The point is the courage!
“Actually, the press—they agreed with what I did,” says Trump, for some reason not taking the outrage bait.
So Palin tried again.
“You get hit with these gotchas, like ‘What’s your favorite Bible verse?’” said Palin.
This week, after saying his favorite book was The Bible, Donald Trump didn’t or couldn’t name a verse from it when asked by a reporter for his go-to.
“I’m like, ‘Do they ask Hillary that?’” Palin asked.
Trump has a very reasonable explanation.
“You saw that. I love The Bible,” he says. “‘What’s your favorite verse?’ That’s a very personal thing. I don’t like giving that out. I love The Bible.”
Then, in the same breath, Trump alerted Palin as to how The Bible has helped him, a Presbyterian.
“In the last poll, I won everything including the Evangelicals,” he says. “I’m big with the Evangelicals.”
The church in which Trump claims to be an active member has since contradicted him.
A little more skepticism about stuff like that would have been welcome.
What was the category, who judged, and what was the competition like?
Also, should we be feeding either of these guys egos more than is absolutely necessary?
:) Good things are coming!
The author (snicker)
I don't believe that there is anything that precludes he/she/it being both.
I saw the interview and I thought it was boring too. Also kinda boring with Jeb and Cruz although Cruz was great as usual. What really got me about Palin was when she had Orin Hatch on talking about the IRS scandal. He just rolled over and said their hands were tied in Congress even with lots of evidence against Lerner and even the WH. Said they couldn’t fire anyone or do anything because they were unionized. It was so weak and pathetic. I was screaming at Palin to ask him why they don’t arrest Lerner for the crimes she obviously committed with evidence to support the crimes. How’s that for getting them out of there? Palin just smiled and told him to keep up the “good work”. It was really pitiful.
Still holds true.
Give it time. Things will get better.
I remember Fox News first shows in 1996. They weren’t good.
I remember chatting with Tony Snow and telling him the only good aspect of his show was found in the democrats he selected to come on his show, that they were so bad they made the boring republicans look good.
Wow! Libs are REALLY SCARED TO DEATH of Sarah & Trump!
The only other pieces I saw in the news that covered this historical interview were snarky LOL smear jobs.
We’ll see who’s laughing next November!
Palin’s questions were disappointing. I expected more out of her. She was kinda sicky nice.
Oh, you mean like when CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, etc., "interview" Barack Obama or Shrillary Clinton?
LOL, that's an easy one 2DV.
Ben Collins is Today's Daily Beast, his red-rimmed eyes glued to the Gov. Palin broadcast, drooling and spewing and spitting venom, all-the-while wishing he/she/it could be as popular as Gov. Palin.
She’s going to have many more interviews with Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and others. She will get better at it. She’s really an extremely smart lady but this is new to her.
Sarah’s mission is to make a carousel of conservative philosophers, standard bearers, historians, to inform and educate viewers of what the future can look like under conservative policies. I wish her well.
I wanted questions like- will you prosecute Lois Lerner if you have the evidence of a crime? Will you prosecute Hillary if there is evidence of cover ups and crime involved in Benghazi and her email crap? What will you do to stop the out of control corruption in Washington or will you become part of it? Will you actually reform the tax system instead of just talking about it? Will you stand with policemen and order your Justice Department to stop race baiting? Those kind of questions are what I expected out of Palin. Maybe next time.
Perhaps there’s a slot opening up at FNC.
I don’t think Trump & Palin are well matched because she is a real conservative
Just by reading the toughness she portrays in her twitters and other postings, I just expected her to ask better questions. I love Palin. Hope she gets the chance next time. No, I haven’t heard her interview anyone because as far as I know, she has never had a TV show where she is the host.
“and embarrassingly low-tech, network”
I am not embarrassed at all. Glad to be apart of what could possibly be history in the making?
That reminds me i love their little history moments.
I like how the new casters are dressed professionally.
I hope they stay humble and do not become to hollywood.
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