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.
At this point, however, there’s no indication that Governor Palin’s gig was anything more than a guest appearance.
True, when Gov Palin signed off, last night, she thanked the network for the opportunity to guest-host, for the (past) week.
I’d love to see Palin, Breitbart News and OANN team up, to put together a formidable conservative network....something to give establishment FNC some competition.
Tomi Lahren has left the network. Bummer!
I watched last night’s episode, from beginning to end. I would’ve LOVED Palin to hit both Jeb and Hatch with some Palin-style hardballs.
The questions you mentioned, dandie, are great questions. Not sure why Palin didn’t go after a little more red meat, on her interview. Maybe because she knew it was a temporary guest host gig? Not sure. Overall, I thought she did fine, with the (very) limited resources this network has (producers, equipment, crew) and I’d like to see Palin return and get down to brass tax - like she does in her FB posts - with her guests.
I did note that both Cruz and Trump were VERY relaxed and were able to take their time, without being on offense, in answering her questions. That was a nice change from the usual gotcha questions they’re always asked.
And, FWIW, Trump has mentioned his strong support for our LEO’s...over and over and goes out of his way to thank and visit with LEO, every chance he gets (at airports, event venues, etc.) I think he may have even paid some/all of the overtime for LEO’s and others, at the AL rally.
Rumor has it she may be going to Fox. Watch out MEgyn :)
One word to describe Ben Collins writing: Smarmy!
Honest Injun? Source of said “rumor”?
Well, I saw it posted, on a thread, here (within the last couple of days)...and I found this, on a somewhat quirky site (teaser article)...
http://www.inquisitr.com/2354542/is-internet-sensation-tomi-lahren-joining-fox-news/
She said in a recent tweet, per above link...that some big change is coming...and to stay tuned. Who knows?
Beg pardon. Mistook the antecedent to refer to Sarah, not Tomi. Nothing else to see here. Carry on.
Just the SLIGHTEST HINT that Trump and Palin could team up sends them into fits
Thats a good sign
Can you imagine what this douche-nozzle would be saying if it happened?
The “Silent Majority” included many of us including a young person like myself who thought a military victory in Vietnam was the answer.
RINO Nixon hijacked ‘my” group of people with our resentment of the liberal media and long haired hippy radicals.
Many of the older ones voted for George Wallace in 1968 whose views on Vietnam were to seek peace and if that didn’t work use full military force instead of the limited war with ‘rules of engagement’ that was actually fought.
Nixon and Kissinger were too busy dealing with the Communists to do the right thing in Vietnam.
I was eight at the time (1968) living in Miami but all the people I knew voted for Wallace.
The Coming GOP Switcheroo
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/29/1416581/-The-Coming-GOP-Switcheroo
A lot of support for Wallace in FL, who launched his political career with the ‘schoolhouse door’ speech in June of 1963 which was very much a ‘staged event’.
Wallace wasn’t going to reignite the Civil War and JFK was worried because MLK and the “Civil Rights Movement” were forcing him to commit to Civil Rights alienating white Democrats in the South. JFK would end up having the FBI spying on King and making the audio ‘sex tapes’.
Wallace found new issues to talk about instead of ‘segregation forever’, like violence on the streets and the liberal media and the lack of military decisiveness in Vietnam (his running mate retired AF Chief of Staff General Curtis Lemay).
The Democrat machine twisted labor union members arms in the North, the radical protesting anti-war commie fascists showed up to disrupt Wallace appearances right before the election, limited his popular vote to around 13-14 percent when the polls had shown him as high as 21 percent a month before.
Trump sat in the pews while Norm Peale preached about positive thinking.
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