Posted on 09/13/2008 10:05:19 AM PDT by EveningStar
I believe in hard hitting interviews. With that in mind, I decided to watch the Charles Gibson interview of Sarah Palin last night on 20/20.
What I saw was not a hard hitting interview. It was an adversarial attack. Charles Gibson was not acting as an interviewer. He was acting as a prosecutor examining what he thought was a hostile witness.
He was playing gotcha, just as Dennis Prager said he had done. He was a smug supercilious elitist.
If you want an example of hard hitting but above the belt interviewing you can look to Chris Wallace and the late Tim Russert. Gibson is not in their class. In fact, he has no class.
I'm sure he impressed his fellow leftist elitists as well as John Q. and Joan Q. Gullible-Ignoramus. But I hope that plenty of people saw through this travesty.
I should have known better better after listening to Dennis Prager yesterday, but like a glutton for punishment, I decided to give Gibson a chance.
By the way, I turned off the TV before the half-way point of the show. I didn't want to have a stroke.
Gibson has always been a liberal, but with this episode he joined the ranks of Dan Rather as a discredited partisan. Too bad for him.
On the bright side, this was the best thing that could happen for the McCain campaign. Just as Obama has to go hard negative to try to catch up, the media is going to be shamed following Palin’s excellent navigation of the ABC booby trap.
Perhaps the pubblies will get a little bit of a break going foward (I don’t expect the media to help them but maybe they will just reduce their antagonism).
huh, wat?
oh...guess the brewer missed the first post
In the original title, elitist was an adjective which preceded a noun. The mod wisely removed the noun from the title. :)
>>I heard NPR regurgitating the exact same talking points as all other MSM outlets this morning.<<
I heard the leftist version of the “Bush Doctrine” question on NPR 2 programs and shot off an email which said that they are either (which may be indeed the case with Charlie Gibson) ignorant or biased.
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