I predict Ms klein will be “Joe the plumbered” by the end of the week
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.
Still won’t stop them from ridiculing Sarah at every chance. And it WON’T be good-hearted humor.
Maybe it is because she doesn't pretend to be somebody else.
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.
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.)
I think it was a combination of her having a bad day and bad editing/constantly replaying the one or two moments that were admittedly cringeworthy.
The whole interview was probably close to an hour worth or more of footage. They aired a few seconds worth here and there over and over again. You could do that for any one. Obama had some pretty bad moments but the media never aired them again and probably erased all the tapes.
Same with Biden. Like when he talked about FDR going on TV, or when he told the guy in the wheelchair to stand up, or started talking about how bad he was and how Hillary was much better. I saw all of that once and it was never replayed again. If the press had shown that 1000000 times and said look how stupid this guy is, he thinks FDR went on TV during the Depression, that would have hurt the dems, but the media would never do that.
But it happens. In the end I don’t think they really made that much of a difference. The Couric or Gibson interviews, that is. They happened at the same time the entire economy collapsed in a span of a few weeks. It was worst 6 weeks before the election in the history of US politics economically, interms of GDP, unemployment, the market, misery index, etc... Once that happened the die was cast. The media tried to make fun of Bush the same way, but the economy was in good shape in 2004 so it didnt work. If Sept/Oct 2008 had happened in 2004, Kerry would be President.
I’ve seen her do hundreds of interviews, if there’s a few minutes out of hours worth of footage that are out there, that’s not so bad.
I also wonder if perhaps she was ill or something happened physically at that time. Just looking at her she looked really different during those interviews. Much thinner. Maybe it was a bad makeup job or something, looked kind of drawn, especially around the eyes and lips. No big deal, but based on what I’ve seen I wouldn’t be surprised if if something like that could affect one’s demeanor.
It was certainly a shame how the media treated her, but there’s really nothing you can do about it. Just take it and try and do better and overcome it.
I’ve heard recently from many sources that “Obama is too articulate and accomplished to be the target of jokes” like Bush was...or in this case Sarah Palin. That is such baloney. You could spend hours and hours doing jokes about his unbelievable dependence on teleprompters and what a dope his is without one....or his Dumbo ears. I think these notables are scared of the Big O. They knew Bush wouldn’t do anything no matter how they ridiculed them. Barry on the other hand made it clear he gets pissed when you make fun of him. I think they are really scared of retribution or the label of racist so they don’t dare say anything. It is a damn lie that he is above comic insults being directed at him. About the only place I see it is right here at Freepers...thank God somebody’s honest about it somewhere!
I don't think it was so much that she said "something nice" about Sarah Palin. I think it was that she didn't say anything bad about her. She just basically gave a relatively fair summation of her observations of Sarah Palin, and said that she didn't get to know her.