Posted on 12/15/2010 4:40:49 AM PST by Kaslin
When ABC's Barbara Walters deems Sarah Palin one of the year's "Most Fascinating People," it's a backhanded compliment. Walters knows Palin has an adoring fan base, and she's definitely not part of it. When the Dec. 2 special began, Walters greeted Palin with "Many people find the thought of you as president a little scary."
This is not what Walters asked President Obama in yet another gooey Barack-and-Michelle hour-long ABC interview on Thanksgiving night. Clearly, a large, energized chunk of the American electorate believed -- and continues to believe -- the idea of Obama as president to be horrifying. Instead, Walters lobbed softballs like this:
"When we come back, we'll hear about family life in the White House, just who slept through the midterm elections, the importance of SpongeBob SquarePants and the night the Tooth Fairy didn't show up. Stay with us."
Liberals like Walters always assume that if you're liberal, you're smart; if you're conservative, you're either evil or stupid. Or both.
It was Michelle Obama who claimed she went to bed early on Election Night, like she always does (so much for Walters being a skeptical interviewer). And it was Michelle Obama who tried to make excuses for the Democratic fiasco by sounding remarkably uninformed.
"I mean, my understanding is that, number one, every president in history has lost Congress at the midterms," the first lady claimed. "Maybe that's overstating it, but it's happened for every president in my lifetime." The president tried to clean it up: "It's the norm."
Walters just sat there, lost in her adoring gaze, accepting these assertions, which were flat-out wrong. Even the last president didn't lose Congress in the 2002 elections (Republicans kept the House; Senate Democrats had captured the majority earlier that year with the switch of Sen. Jim Jeffords). Neither did the first George Bush in 1990 (Congress was firmly Democrat), or Ronald Reagan in 1982 (when the Senate stayed Republican, and the House stayed Democrat).
Is Walters that dumb? Or is it blind loyalty to one party matched by equally blind hostility to the other?
It's the never-ending problem for Sarah Palin. There's a certain malice in the implication that she doesn't read books or newspapers. There's a certain catfight quality as well when the inquisitors are Katie Couric and Walters. These are female journalists who felt discriminated against when people suggested they didn't have the same heft as the male anchors of the evening. Never let them talk about a "glass ceiling" while they throw mud at Palin.
Walters suggested "many people" (read: her liberal friends over cocktails the night before) find you "a little scary" (read: You're an anti-abortion Jesus freak). Then she added: "You hear, 'She's very charming, but she's uninformed.' What are they afraid of?" Palin expressed amazement Walters didn't add the word "polarizing" and noted the media "shaped that persona."
Walters kept pushing: "What about the accusation that you're uninformed?" Palin kept pushing back: "That, too, I think is something that's been pretty much ginned up by the press."
The diva Walters huffed with disbelief: "Well! Let me try this," and re-ran the Couric quiz. "Would you like to tell us what newspapers, magazines or books you are reading right now?"
Palin said she was reading a book on ultra-marathoners, and reads the Christian apologist C.S. Lewis, news sources like The Wall Street Journal and Newsmax, and the local papers. And then there was an edit. Palin said she mentioned Mark Levin's book "Liberty and Tyranny," a book that sold over a million copies without a single broadcast media interview or story. ABC kept the censorship alive by leaving the book title on the cutting-room floor.
Walters kept throwing hardballs. "Some Republicans are angry ... you threw your considerable weight behind inexperienced candidates, and as a result, it's your fault that the Republicans didn't take the Senate."
Palin went right back to whacking the press and how they love anonymous Republicans who trash Palin while hiding behind the media's curtain: "A lot of those accusations, though, came from anonymous sources. ... They want to be known as such powerful characters, but they are impotent and limp and they are weak. They hide behind somebody's skirts, and they won't even put their name to the accusations."
There's no guarantee that Palin will run for president. But there's absolutely a guarantee that the media deeply hate her.
I deeply despise the media... satan’s media. babs is just one of his demonic slaves.
LLS
Liberals are scum.
Baba Wawa considers herself a journalist. She sort of right........she’s a full fledged jounOlist.
from Friday, 15 Oct 2010
Me too, the lamestream media are a bunch of lying sots, anyone who listens to them has got to be brain dead, uninformed, or willfully evil. I have yet to see anything that the far left stands for that is good for anyone except the ruling elite and their serfs.
Barbra Walters is a walking obscenity.
The Lord only knows why she has a show at all.
“They hide behind somebody’s skirts, and they won’t even put their name to the accusations.”
Sarah is quick. This comeback should correct Bawbawa’s misapprehension that Sarah is dim.
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America is looking for a leader who understands foreign threats and our economy, not a long in the tooth personality like B. Walters....is this country still so groupie and ga ga over T.V. personalities? We need to grow up.
We all know Baba Wawa is stupid - amply demonstrated by the fact that she still cannot understand that Sarah had much more experience than the Loon.
And is much more intelligent. (Having taught at the grad level, it becomes quite easy to tell the smart from the smart-*ssed.) I don’t think the Loon could pass a freshman technical course. He’s as vapid as they come.
LLS — I kept telling ppl that the election of 2008 was not only a battle for the “political” America, but was also a battle to knock the press back on thier ass. Unfortunately, it didn’t turn out that way and thier candidate was elected.
I didn’t realize she was that old. Why isn’t she retired yet. It’s time for here to move into the old people’s home
I remember the interview that lisping old hag did with Rush Limbaugh. It was fascinating to watch the expression on her face as she listened to Limbaugh talk - a mixture of hate, revulsion and disgust.
Too bad she just doesn’t retire and move back into that old bell tower.
Agreed. She’s waaaaay past her prime. I can’t stand to watch her much less listen to that “nails on the chalkboard” voice of hers.:(
Tell us again how it was, Baba, you got your first job in network TV?
How can one be a fan of anyone or anything when the only thing you see is yourself?
Her and her ilk, need attention or to destroy someone else, ergo that coffee clatch from Hell the View. They need it because inside their is no their - their. Ignore these insecure women and their heads will explode, just like ignoring a Bombshell when she walks by, it drives them batty.
Yes Sarah ought to ingore Couric, Angrea Witchell, and Ms. Wawa for starters...
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