Posted on 09/12/2008 9:24:43 AM PDT by NewMediaFan
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- There were no surprises, no knockout zingers, but also no bloopers Thursday night in Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's first TV interview since becoming the Republican vice presidential nominee.
Charles Gibson of ABC News was out for blood and inherently applied a double-standard compared with the kid gloves George Stephanopoulos used on Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois on Sunday night.
Gibson was out to embarrass Palin and expose her presumed ignorance from the word go. By contrast, when Obama referred to his "Muslim faith" on Sunday and did not correct himself, Stephanopoulos rushed in at once to help him and emphasize that the senator had really meant to say his Christian faith.
By contrast, Gibson tried to embarrass Palin by referring to her Christian faith in asking people to pray for U.S. soldiers in Iraq. Palin countered by pointing out she was following the precedent set by Abraham Lincoln.
Palin also expressed her support for Georgia and Ukraine joining the U.S.-led NATO alliance. That statement was predictable and consistent with the current policy of the Bush administration. The policy has dangerously raised tensions with Russia, but Palin is hardly alone in the conservative/Republican consensus in expressing her support for it.
Palin's assessment of foreign policy was competent and not embarrassing. Although she initially exhibited ignorance of the Bush Doctrine on pre-emptive strikes that has been a central pillar of U.S. foreign policy after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, she recovered quickly and then made the case clearly. Tactically, she made the mistake of trying to be friendly and informal with Gibson, who assumed a superior, professorial and critical stance toward her. She would have been far better going on the attack to rattle him.
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“You didnt know this going into this election? This hasnt been the case for the last 48 years?”
I see, so we are just supposed to sit back and eat this #!@$ with a spoon. good plan
“Look, Gibson was tough last night and maybe even a little over the top on a couple of questions but he could have really gotten into the gutter (left wing blog crap) and he didnt do a lot of that.”
I hold our national press to a higher level than left wing blogs. So I’m not satisfied when he manages to stay out of the ‘gutter’.
“I see, so we are just supposed to sit back and eat this #!@$ with a spoon. good plan”
So I take it you are a fan of the fairness doctrine?
LOL BTTT. There is a tough question with only one right answer.
I'm surprised the jerk didn't ask her to spell potato.
“So I take it you are a fan of the fairness doctrine?”
Why am I not surprised that is your response.
I’m referring to the consumer of the news services pushing back on the piss poor quality the ‘for-profit’ company paying Gibson is delivering. I’m talking about journalism and not propaganda. I’m talking about the people of this great country pushing back when they don’t like something being shoved down our throats.
But I guess you prefer to take whatever they decide to give you and be happy. Go for it.
It's an opinion piece. They have run conservative columns for a while, actually.
I don’t. I am sure it will begin to dribble forth later on today unless there is some perceived “gotcha” by ABC then it will be in breaking news everywhere!
Brit is almost as bad... he loves his fellow liberal TV punks more than America.
LLS
I wouldn’t mind seeing Obama asked these same questions in this same format.
Instead we get “why did you fall in love with Michelle.?”
My wife was screaming at the TV last night when my son and I came in from fishing. The experience appears to be universal.
What do you get when you put lip-stick on a flying pig? Charley Gibson in drag with wings chasing after B.H.O. to kiss his A$$ and say, “didn’t I do a good job, didn’t I, didn’t I. There’s just one problem, Charley... I don’t think B.H.O. wants to have anything to do with pigs.
Unfortunately, no. We roll up our sleeves and egage the enemy. We may lose in the end, but I'd rather lose fighting than to sit and whine about our treatment.
ABC is taking this one in the shorts. They even had to pull their comments on the article as they over 1,000 comments almost all were negative.
Why hold them to a higher standard since they repeat almost everything from the left wing wackos?
The drive byes "suck it".
What the voters are watching is for an over-all impression of the candidate as a positive or negative person. Except for partisan leftists, Sarah Palin comes across as “one of us” (regular people) not “one of them,” (the elites in media). The American people can understand a set-up and a double standard when they see it.
On another answer that is easy to come with a day later, I thought of a cool answer she could have given to the "are you ready to be President on day one. I presume that there is at least one former President who has said "you know, no man is really ready to lead the world's only superpower until they've done it", she could find that quote, and say : You know, Charlie, President X once said that no man is ever really ready to be President until they are already in the office. Of course, "I am no man".
Would you like to see the same set of questions asked of Obama? Except of course substituting the Clinton Doctrine for the Bush Doctrine?
Yes
When did you stop beating your husband and why, Sarah?
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