Posted on 09/12/2008 7:09:38 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
It is a hit piece.....I thought it was going to be an interview. Why did they ever agree to this?????
MSNBC talking points so far.
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Oh, great. Meyers and Steffie for analysis. I think i’m gonna hurl.
Who’d have thunk watching Geraldo clinging to the Seawall would be better than this drivel?
GIBSON: The other issue is Troopergate, which is very much in the news today, the Associated Press is saying how there's going to be 13 subpoenas that come out, one of them to your husband, Todd. First of all, do you welcome the investigation…
PALIN: Absolutely, there's nothing to hide in this. The personnel board is the appropriate agency or overseeing board to inquire as to whether anybody did anything wrong or not, but here's the issue with Troopergate and I'm glad that you're asking. The trooper in question here did conduct dangerous and illegal activities and our personal security detail when I was first elected had asked us very appropriately, are there any threats against you and your family. And I said, well, you know, ironically, yeah, it's a state trooper who's threatened to kill my dad and bring down me and once I got elected, his threats were he was going to bring down the governor and the governor's family, so it was very appropriate that we brought the concerns to personal security detail -- they asked us to bring it to the commissioner, which I did.
GIBSON: And he was your brother-in-law at one point.
PALIN: Yeah, back in '05 -- yeah.
GIBSON: The -- you mentioned the personnel board, it's a bipartisan legislative group, that's working at it now, which you said was fine, until you got named as the vice presidential nominee, and then you said the personnel board ought to handle it.
PALIN: We've said all along that … the personnel board is the appropriate agency or board to inquire -- our state statute says if there is a question about actions of the governor, lt. governor, or attorney general, you go to the personnel board. So we've said all along that that's appropriate …
GIBSON: Even though they're all appointed by you.
PALIN: No, they're not. In fact, they were all appointed by the prior administration, I had one reappointment on that board, they weren't all appointed by me. But, the issue that people are asking about -- first, they got it wrong when they say did I fire a trooper, because there was an issue back in '05 about him, as he was divorcing my sister. No, nobody fired the trooper, he's still a trooper to this day, he's out there. He had tasered his stepson, he had made those death threats, you know, there were a lot of concerns from not just my family, but from the public about this trooper's activities, and he's apologized for those since, I saw on the air the other day.
But, the issue is the commissioner, who was his boss, was he pressured to fire that trooper, that's the underlying issue here, right, Commissioner Monegan. Commissioner Monegan has said the governor never asked me to fire him, the governor's husband never asked me to fire him, and we never did. I never pressured him to hire or fire anybody. Why I replaced commissioner Monegan was after two years, of he working in my cabinet, as a political appointment, at will, exempt, recognizing after two years, he wasn't meeting the goals I wanted met in that area of public service, there were a lot of things that we were lacking, and a lot of goals weren't being met…
I wanted to bring somebody in with more vision and more energy to beef up public safety, hire more troopers, we increased the budget, yet still we had dozens and dozens of trooper positions vacant, we weren't reaching the goals on recruitment and retention of troopers, so that was one of the issues. I did recognize though that Commissioner Monegan could provide for the state some good public service in another area, so I did offer him another job, as the person in charge of the alcohol beverage control board, he chose not to transfer into that position, he chose then to leave state service, he didn't want that position, so the two issues have nothing to do with each other, the trooper's still a trooper today, Commissioner Monegan was offered another job, he turned that down, and now we're in the midst of a hiring practice for a new commissioner.
GIBSON: You think he should be a trooper? Given what he did?
PALIN: It amazes me still to think we cannot have very, very high standards for our troopers, for anybody in public service, certainly though, those who have a badge and carry a gun. But, I have always put in my commissioners hands their rights, their authority to hire, fire those that they need on their team to provide for better public service, I haven't micromanaged them. So, I didn't tell the guy to hire or fire anybody.
GIBSON: Didn't improperly intercede, not worried about the subpoenas, even to Todd.
PALIN: No, because I know that Todd, too, never pressured Commissioner Monegan. He did, very appropriately, though, bring up those concerns about a trooper who was making threats against the first family, and that is appropriate, in fact, you go to the department of law's web site, and it says right there in Q&A form on their Web site, it says, if you have an issue or a concern about an Alaskan state trooper, you bring that concern to the commissioner of the department of public safety. That's what Todd did, he appropriately did.
But another issue that I think has been lost through mainstream media reporting this, is that the trooper is still a trooper, Commissioner Monegan was replaced because he wasn't reaching the goals that our cabinet members were to reach, find efficiencies, put new vision, new energy into all of our departments. And, it's an issue that should be investigated by the personnel board, and they do -- it's been so politicized at this point, too, I think it's turned into quite the political issue.
My account to Verizon ($93/month) is as of this night ended. The operator wanted a reason for dropping their service. I asked ‘Do you watch ABC television? They need defunding. I got immediate assiatnce and am free of these freaks now. Next up ...
Am absolutely not watching if it wasn’t done by Stoessel.
I am just going to listen to Rush and see what he says.
The DUfuses must be cringing. Seeing that Sarah SMACKED DOWN the best of Gibson!
Re: Who’d have thunk watching Geraldo clinging to the Seawall would be better than this drivel?
LOL!
Now, for a serious question. Did Dee Dee have gastric bypass surgery? Isn’t she about half her size from the Clinton years?
IMO there should be no more interviews with any of the liberal media for either John or Sarah. Let them eat cake and let Sarah and John talk to the people of this country via talk radio, campaign stops, web sites and videos, Foxnews.
Torie Clark dissing Palin.
eh, Torrie GHWB didn’t get re ele cted!
Well, Dee Dee, at least she’ll be sober.
Good job!
That was grotesque. I noticed they patched a different answer to the question about embryonic stem cell research to make it sound like she might change her views or policy when elected.
The question homosexual orientation was also butchered in editing to make it look like she was merely answering whether or not homosexuality is a good or bad thing. The edited piece had her answering, “I can’t judge”, BUT, the actual, full question was based on whether or not homosexuality is genetic or a choice. That’s when she responded that she can’t make a judgment on something that’s essentially not even known scientifically one way or the other.
ABC is truly disgusting. That was a BRUTAL miscarriage of journalistic ethics.
Who is the woman in the orange vinyl? Sarah’s “just another politician.” yeah, right.
George S. “Obama is a little flat footed”
THE UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE YEAR!
It was a blunder.
McCain apparently still thinks he’s the “maverick” who is adored by the Democrat “mainstream” news mice. And so, thinking she’ll get a fair shake, he sends Sarah Palin into an interview with that third-string p.o.s. Charlie Gibson (who got his job only because one guy died and the next guy got blown up).
Where the hell are McCain’s handlers? They needed to tell the Republican candidate that he has NO friends in that world. The Democrat "mainstream" news media is the Obama world. There was absolutely no possible upside to sending Palin into that interview. Hopefully McCain will grow a brain and in the future tell those scumbags in the Democrat "mainstream" newsrooms to go play in the street. "No Palin and no McCain for you. We will not offer ourselves up as props for your smear campaign."
Next McCain needs to arrange numerous moderated real-time, on-line interviews with established internet news and opinion blogs and forums. Like Free Republic, for example. McCain and Palin should do interviews with Michael Medved and Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck and Mark Levin, Dennis Prager and Bill Bennett, Bill O’Reilly and Laura Ingraham. Except for radio and TV ads, stick with talk radio and the internet.
Why in God’s name waste time with Democrat scumbags like Gibson? He and his ilk are precisely the kind of scum the McCain campaign needs to navigate AROUND, so they can take their message directly to the people. You know... like Reagan did.
Un-friggin-real....
Tori Clark worked for George H. W. Bush. Tell us again, Tori, about that second term for Bush, Sr.
Sara is tough. She can deal with MSM drones like Gibson. Obama, on the other hand, is a delicate wittle flower and the MSM must be vewy vewy careful wif him so he does not get hurt.
Who the hell was that Republican strategist at the roundtable? She was worse than the Democratic strategist!!! Complete effing trojan horse. Unbelievable.
Good work!
We need a snailmail campaign to tell these advertisers why we are ending our purchaes of their products as of tonight! I handled Verizon on the phone. Toyota and Target are getting letters tomorrow.
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