Posted on 10/02/2008 5:52:48 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
For someone who doesn't know something as obvious as the fact that, given her upcoming book, Gwen Ifill has a financial stake in an Obama win, Maggie Rodriguez has an awfully high opinion of the knowledge level of ordinary Americans. Rodriguez interviewed a feisty Fred Thompson on today's Early Show. During the course of the contentious exchange:
* Rodriguez, questioning Thompson on Sarah Palin's inability to name a Supreme Court decision other than Roe v. Wade with which she disagreed, claimed that “everybody” and “ordinary Americans” can cite Supreme Court cases. * But when Thompson stated that Palin would be dealing tonight with a moderator with a financial interest in an Obama win, Rodriguez retorted “I don’t know about that.”
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How Can Americans Be So Smart But Maggie Rodriguez So Not ping to Today show list.
The media is so intent on demeaning Republicans every chance they get, they couldn’t possibly know what discrepancies exist on the other side of the aisle. They’ve got blinders on.
“Rodriguez, questioning Thompson on Sarah Palin’s inability to name a Supreme Court decision other than Roe v. Wade with which she disagreed, claimed that “everybody” and “ordinary Americans” can cite Supreme Court cases.”
Supreme Court cases?! I doubt the average American can name one single Supreme Court Justice, or more than four or five past Presidents, but then again I have to admit, that I would have a problem with the real important stuff in life, like naming one winner of an American Idol contest (wasn’t that guy, in one of the recent Super Bowls, that participated in wardrobe malfunction, one of them? - Justin Timberland or something like that).
I think it’s because they are really stupid. You have to be to agree to put those blinders on and get out knee pads to hero worship snake oil salesmen such as Obama.
No, Justin Timberlake hasn’t had anything to do with American Idol.
I’m ashamed I know that.
HA!
She was in a total gotcha situation being a conservative and asked about SC decisions that she disagrees with. If she were to start ticking off SC decisions that conservatives have been slapped in the face with, the liberal media would have a field day running 'campaign ads' for Obama suggesting that Palin would be an advocate for overturning those decisions.
The two SCOTUS cases that I can think of off the top of my head that were the biggest travesties were the Kelo case and the decision that banned execution for murderers who committed the murder before their 18th birthday.
Listening to Hannity's Man on the Street interviews, a lot of ordinary Americans can't even name the current VP or Secretary of State! Thompson should have asked Rodriguez ro name a few cases herself, then watched her stammer and stutter.
Standard liberal reply when confronted with facts they don't like. Just deny they exist.
That was my impression too. She didn’t want to open that discussion with The Perky One.
Perky One would have jumped all over her and the LSM would have had their talking points.
*Race card alert*
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Ifill questions why people assume that her book will be favorable toward Obama.
“Do you think they made the same assumptions about Lou Cannon (who is white) when he wrote his book about Reagan?” said Ifill, who is black. Asked if there were racial motives at play, she said, “I don’t know what it is. I find it curious.”
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Beautiful! Exchanges like this make me wish that McCain would stop hanging out with low-key Lieberman and Graham and start hanging out with Thompson, Gingrinch & Guilliani. Mac needs someone to light a fire under him, get him excited to get in the game and give better than he gets. He needs to show us that fire not just sometimes but all the time. I saw McCain’s initial response to the Gwen Ifill scandal. He had just learned of it & instead of taking advantage of it & saying, at least, that he had might have reservations about her impartiality, he simply, in his low-key, monotone way, said he didn’t really see a problem with that. I was so angry at his initial response. Play to win, John! If you want to be the bipartisan king and hold hands with everybody, at least save it til after you’ve won the election. When you’re being attacked from all sides, you can’t use a bb gun.
Exactly — when we think of what the scum of the left did to Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas..... Well I am sure that Governor Palin was sitting there thinking “ok, which case would I want to be smeared and demagogued about for the rest of this campaign and indeed for the rest of my life?”
Excellent post!
Palin only needs to SAY what you said - - something along the lines of: “As a candidate who may someday be in a position to influence future Supreme Court appointments I think I should decline to answer questions about specific controversial cases that may eventually be revisited. Suffice it to say that I prefer judges who respect the original intent of the founders and am skeptical of rulings that are based on emanations of penumbras.”
Of course, she could also have flummoxed Couric by simply responding. “Dred Scott. I disagree with Dred Scott.”
The perky one reminds me of Connie Chung (just whisper it in my ear)These bsatrads will do anything to forward their
liberal agenda. How can the American public be so blind as to believe the crap the liberal media spews. How they are so selective in what they report and what they overlook.
Pro Liberal we print...Anti Republican we print. Nothing else matters. Fairness doctrine? You already have what you’re going to get if the left get total control, only it will be a thousand times worse.
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