'SNL' Producer: Sarah Palin 'Most Confident Person I've Ever Met'

Newsbusters.org ^ | 5-10-09 | Noel Sheppard

[Justaham]

Stop the presses!

A member of the mainstream media actually said something nice about Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

I kid you not: "Saturday Night Live" senior producer Marci Klein said during an interview last week, "This is the most confident person I've ever met."

Certainly not the impression created by CBS's Katie Couric or ABC's Charlie Gibson, wouldn't you agree?

Appearing on Julie Menin's "Give and Take," Klein had absolutely nothing but nice things to say about the press's current public enemy #1 (video embedded below the fold with partial transcript, relevant section at 2:25):

[henry_reardon]

I predict Ms klein will be “Joe the plumbered” by the end of the week

[ozarkgirl]

No surprise here. McCain’s team and the GOP didn’t do right by Gov. Palin.

You know it, I know it and much of the media knows it.

I hope Katie Couric some day will pay the price for the wrong she did.

[digger48]

Still won’t stop them from ridiculing Sarah at every chance. And it WON’T be good-hearted humor.

[maggief]

“No surprise here. McCain’s team and the GOP didn’t do right by Gov. Palin.”

And ... they still aren’t!!!

When the GOP embraces Palin and conservatives I will start to listen.

[Justaham]

I may become a viewer of SNL when they make fun of Joe Biden.

[hinckley buzzard]

No it won't but this person has inadvertantly highlighted the source of Palin's charisma. Leaders who are confident and unconflicted are inherently attractive--and threatening to opponents. It is no surprise the whorehouse left can't stop trying to kill her off. They know a mortal threat when they sense one.

[mplsconservative]

You are so correct. Whorehouse left - LOL. I love it when people call ‘em as they see ‘em.

[Vigilanteman]

"This is the most confident person I've ever met."

Maybe it is because she doesn't pretend to be somebody else.

[BobL]

Actually, the Anchorage Times said something similar just after she was nominated (before the Obama team got to them). They said something to the effect that every time she met with their editorial board, she came alone. She didn’t bring handlers, advisors, or PR people. She was the only high-ranking government person to do that in their memory.

Pretty classy.

[redk]

Yes she said all of these things despite the interviewers best attempt to get her to say something bad. Because she didn't say anything bad, the internet is as far as this will go. If she had called her a total moron this would be talked about nonstop for the next week.

[Big_Monkey]

"I predict Ms klein will be “Joe the plumbered” by the end of the week

Don't count on it. If you watch the video, Klein doesn't come off as a Sarah Palin fan. And, I'm not entirely sure that she was trying to be complimentary when she talked about Palin's "confidence".

Later in the interview, she parrots the MSM talking points about how "serious" and "earnest" that Barack Obama is, allegedly.

Klein loses all credibility, at least with me, because she herself is so confident that SNL is actually funny. I believe that the fact that she believes she, and her staff are funny, is actually funny (and delusional) in and of itself.

[PureSolace]

Sounds like SNL may ask Palin to revisit the show. Maybe the ratings were high? Or maybe... just maybe.. She’s a very confident woman. (Probably both.)

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

They made fun of Geitner last night

[9YearLurker]

I don’t know. One of the biggest doubts about senior female politicians (or any senior women) is that they have that supreme confidence. Lorne Michaels was also strikingly positive about Sarah after she appeared. I think she is extremely likable—and that probably did get to both of them a bit. (Also, of course, they want her on again any time and any how.)

[buccaneer81]

They made fun of Geitner last night

That's because nobody, even on the left, likes Geithner. He won't last till the end of the year.

[Jaguarmike]

When you’re confident your ideas work, criticism slides off your back.

When you know your administration’s policies are smoke and mirrors, you make criticism and jokes verboten. Just like we saw last night at the press dinner.

[greene66]

Well, it’s not just the left, but the beltway elitists of the GOP, too. I was just reading that thread regarding Bill Bennett’s gratuitous diss. It’s so bizarre, such ‘establishment’ GOP-ers just seem to go out of their way to dump on Palin. I don’t care that they might support some other Republican. That’s all fine and dandy. But why in hell do they all go out of their way to stick a shiv in Palin’s back every time? They don’t give that treatment to any other Republican. No, every other name is on their laundry-list as great future leaders, down to Joe Schmoe from Nowheresville. This kind of crap is really starting to make me loathe the GOP.

[Kickass Conservative]

Didn't see that. I saw them using the Geitner character to tear down the Evil Bankers, while the Geitner character was the all knowing Treasury Secretary.

[redk]

Exactly. They don't have to pretend to be her bff but it's like they are having a contestant to see who can insult her the most on national television.