[mathprof]

I think Palin should put lipstick on that pig Gibson.

[TheWasteLand]

GIBSON: How did you get so cool?

OBAMA: Aw shucks ma'am.

[Def Conservative]

What a joke! McCain’s campaign should make an ad with a compare and contrast...just for those who don’t believe there is any bias.

Charlie wants Obama to win, as he has for every other Dem since he’s been in the business.

[Gunder]

I wish Drudge would do one of his FLASHBACKS and link to this.

[JusPasenThru]

The MSM is biased? I’m shocked! SHOCKED!

[MHGinTN]

To put lipstick on the pig Gibson, she would have to remove his lips from the lock he has on Obama’s butt. Charley can’t get loose from his liplock now, he’s exposed his sycophancy.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Now folks, we all just have to understand a few things:

Charlie Gibson is an old Princeton grad (Class of 1966, I believe — I followed Charlie by a few years). As a result, he has a natural connection to Michelle My Belle (class of 84, I believe?). And Barack being a Columbia and Harvard man, well... Charlie has to give the guy deference and acceptance. After all, he’s also a minority (or a partial minority) and Charlie would be in the on the side of “affirmative action” for his introductory interview with Senator Obama.

It really disgusts me, but Rush is right: the only audience Charlie was concerned about there were the members of the Mainstream Media: he had to show them that he was perfectly willing to try and sandbag the GOP super-star. Disgusting.

[TruthWillWin]

The GOP needs to jump all over this. Sort of like "here's you brain, here's your brain on drugs". Except it's "here's your interview of liberal Obama, here's your interview of Conservative Palin".

Quite a contrast. I wonder if someone in the McCain campaign was smart enough to see this coming and that's the reason Charlie was picked to do the interview? A set up to expose the unfair way the press has given Obama a pass?

This is material to make a great ad.

[txzman]

In the end it won’t matter. The public will see the difference and will vote Republican. Palin handled her own - anyone remember how badly GW Bush mangled his interviews??

When Bush had to wing it, I cringed. Palin is feisty and speaks much better!

[Defiant]

But he found he could more than hold his own, finishing first in his class and being editor of the 'Harvard Law Review.

That's the first I ever heard this claim.

[Diplomat]

GIBSON: But he found he could more than hold his own, finishing first in his class and being editor of the 'Harvard Law Review."

I call b.s. The only way this bumbling idiot finishes first in his class is if the class size was one.

[Longstreet63]

I know I'll get criticized...and keep in mind that I think Gibson's tone was condescending...and he took Palin’s Lincoln quote and made up whatever he wanted from it...but

The Obama questioning was from a year ago, more than a year before the election...the Palin interview is 2 months before the election when everyone is tuned in...the questions should be tougher...there is no softball interviews right now...

Fire away...

[Longstreet63]

sorry...meant to say that there ARE no softball interviews now...oops...

[geege]

The joke of the day

“Michelle has this wonderful sense of humor”

[Tenniel2]

Girly-girl questions for a girly-girl candidate.

[Federalist Society]

CHARLES GIBSON: Next, the presidential race and our attempt to explore the private side of the candidates, to learn about the events and the influences that have shaped them and brought them to this point in their political careers. I understand people's frustration with the double standard between the parties, however it does state that the purpose of the piece on Obama is to look at the private side of his life, not an in depth study of his experience. Should they have done this at some point along the way? Sure, but that was not the point of this piece, and they stated such, so I don't put much stock on this interview vs. Palin's interview. I think the better argument is that ABC has never done a tough interview an his experience with foreign policy, etc, just a fluff piece on his private life.

[driftless2]

Didn’t see the whole interview, only snips, but I’ll take the word of lot of conservatives that Gibson was not quite fair to Palin. However in his defense concerning his interview with Obama, he did put The Anointed One on the hot spot with his capital gains tax question. Obama clearly wasn’t expecting it, and gave a sorry answer. The problem is that libs like Gibson ask their heroes just one tough question, and think they’re being fair.