Two Very Different ABC Interviews: Charlie Gibson w/Obama vs. Charlie Gibson w/Palin [Repost]

ABC "News"

[quesney]

ABC "News"

Charles Gibson Interviews Barack Obama
Presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee
June 4, 2008 (after Hillary Clinton concedes)
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=5000184

GIBSON: Senator, I'm curious about your feelings last night. It was an historic moment. Has it sunk in yet?
GIBSON: What did your grandmother say?
GIBSON: Public moments are not your own. There's a million people pulling you in a million different directions, but when everybody clears out, the staff is gone, you're in your hotel room at night and you're alone -- do you say to yourself: "Son of a gun, I've done this?"
GIBSON: (inaudible) when you announced, did you truly, in your gut, think that a black man could win the nomination of a major party to be president of the United States?
GIBSON: You don't get much time to enjoy this before people immediately start talking about the vice presidency.
GIBSON: But there obviously is one name that looms over all. Hillary Clinton has already, to some extent, expressed her willingness. There are supporters putting out petitions. There is a drumbeat of pressure. There are those 18 million votes. Is she a special case that you have to deal with before the others, or is she considered just like everybody else? How long can you let the "Hillary Clinton on the ticket" question linger?
GIBSON: Does there have to be a yes or no on the issue of Hillary Clinton before you get to the others, or can this issue linger on, because it pervades everything? You want to move on to the general election. You want to pivot to a campaign against John McCain. Can you do that while this question hovers over you?
GIBSON: So, you won't do -- you won't deal with her first, get that out of the way, and then either move on or not?
GIBSON: As long as that question lingers, can you get about the business of unifying the party, or does that have to be taken care of first?
GIBSON: Did she squeeze you in any way by making known her interest in the job?
GIBSON: Should you choose her, how do you handle Bill Clinton?
GIBSON: On what three issues will this campaign turn to you?
GIBSON: Do you worry that it could turn on race, age and class?
GIBSON: John McCain has issued an invitation to do a series of town meetings (inaudible). Going to do it?
GIBSON: Will you go to Iraq?
GIBSON: Public financing: Going to take it or going to say no?
GIBSON: But there's a dynamic on your side, as well. You originally said you would take it.

GIBSON: That was before we saw a...
GIBSON: If you already see that money coming in, it seems to me you're saying...
GIBSON: Is the hardest part of all this behind you or ahead of you?
GIBSON: The picture of you in the paper, this morning, with your wife, watching the Clinton speech. What did you think of the Clinton speech? She didn't exactly acknowledge your victory.
GIBSON: And finally your daughters. What did they say to you? Did they take it as a matter of course that Daddy could be nominated to be president? They never knew what older people know in terms of discrimination, although they may still feel some. What did they say about that?
GIBSON: I watched closely your countenance last night, your mien, as you stood in that hall. You didn't smile much. Has the joyfulness of this hit home yet? Do you take joy from it?
GIBSON: Senator, thank you.

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ABC "News"

Charles Gibson Interviews Sarah Palin
Republican Vice Presidential Nominee
September 11, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/Story?id=5782924&page=1

GIBSON: Governor, let me start by asking you a question that I asked John McCain about you, and it is really the central question. Can you look the country in the eye and say "I have the experience and I have the ability to be not just vice president, but perhaps president of the United States of America?"
GIBSON: And you didn't say to yourself, "Am I experienced enough? Am I ready? Do I know enough about international affairs? Do I -- will I feel comfortable enough on the national stage to do this?"
GIBSON: Didn't that take some hubris?
GIBSON: But this is not just reforming a government. This is also running a government on the huge international stage in a very dangerous world. When I asked John McCain about your national security credentials, he cited the fact that you have commanded the Alaskan National Guard and that Alaska is close to Russia. Are those sufficient credentials?
GIBSON: I know. I'm just saying that national security is a whole lot more than energy.
GIBSON: Did you ever travel outside the country prior to your trip to Kuwait and Germany last year?
GIBSON: Have you ever met a foreign head of state?
GIBSON: And all governors deal with trade delegations.
GIBSON: Who act at the behest of their governments.
GIBSON: I'm talking about somebody who's a head of state, who can negotiate for that country. Ever met one?
GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, "Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God." Are we fighting a holy war?
(PALIN: You know, I don't know if that was my exact quote.)
GIBSON: Exact words.
GIBSON: I take your point about Lincoln's words, but you went on and said, "There is a plan and it is God's plan."
GIBSON: But then are you sending your son on a task that is from God?
GIBSON: Let me ask you about some specific national security situations.
GIBSON: Let's start, because we are near Russia, let's start with Russia and Georgia.
GIBSON: You believe unprovoked.
GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions, particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of the state give you?
GIBSON: What insight does that give you into what they're doing in Georgia?
GIBSON: Would you favor putting Georgia and Ukraine in NATO?
GIBSON: Because Putin has said he would not tolerate NATO incursion into the Caucasus.
GIBSON: And under the NATO treaty, wouldn't we then have to go to war if Russia went into Georgia?
GIBSON: And you think it would be worth it to the United States, Georgia is worth it to the United States to go to war if Russia were to invade.
GIBSON: Let me turn to Iran. Do you consider a nuclear Iran to be an existential threat to Israel?
GIBSON: So what should we do about a nuclear Iran? John McCain said the only thing worse than a war with Iran would be a nuclear Iran. John Abizaid said we may have to live with a nuclear Iran. Who's right?
GIBSON: So what do you do about a nuclear Iran?
GIBSON: But, Governor, we've threatened greater sanctions against Iran for a long time. It hasn't done any good. It hasn't stemmed their nuclear program.
GIBSON: What if Israel decided it felt threatened and needed to take out the Iranian nuclear facilities?
GIBSON: So if we wouldn't second guess it and they decided they needed to do it because Iran was an existential threat, we would cooperative or agree with that.
GIBSON: So if it felt necessary, if it felt the need to defend itself by taking out Iranian nuclear facilities, that would be all right.
GIBSON: We talk on the anniversary of 9/11. Why do you think those hijackers attacked? Why did they want to hurt us?
GIBSON: Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?
GIBSON: The Bush -- well, what do you -- what do you interpret it to be?
(PALIN: His world view.)
GIBSON: No, the Bush doctrine, enunciated September 2002, before the Iraq war.
GIBSON: The Bush doctrine, as I understand it, is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense, that we have the right to a preemptive strike against any other country that we think is going to attack us. Do you agree with that?
GIBSON: Do we have a right to anticipatory self-defense? Do we have a right to make a preemptive strike again another country if we feel that country might strike us?
GIBSON: Do we have the right to be making cross-border attacks into Pakistan from Afghanistan, with or without the approval of the Pakistani government?
GIBSON: But, Governor, I'm asking you: We have the right, in your mind, to go across the border with or without the approval of the Pakistani government.
GIBSON: And let me finish with this. I got lost in a blizzard of words there. Is that a yes? That you think we have the right to go across the border with or without the approval of the Pakistani government, to go after terrorists who are in the Waziristan area?

[NoGrayZone]

"The Palin interview, on the other hand, was her first major interview. I don't expect "How does your mom feel about this?" type questions when she hasn't faced a single interview regarding policy."

Fine. Could you please post barrys "first interview regarding policy" in which some of the same questions were asked?? Thanks.

[CharacterCounts]

Sorry about the typo - I have fat fingers.

[Plutarch]

This Gibson Obama vs. Palin thing is just begging for a quality video montage treatment. Could even make a good campaign ad.

[NoGrayZone]

ROFL!!!! You owe me a keyboard!

[oneolcop]

I think that Palin learned an important lesson: They're going to try to tear her to shreds.

Unfortunately, this will compel her to be more reserved and ambiguous in her future interviews.

[GodGunsGuts]

Excellent find!

[Brytani]

I thought it was funny, as most typo’s are. Plus it helps to be personally fluent in Typonese...

[griswold3]

Sarah Barracuda, reserved? No way!
When you are grounded in core values, you needn’t worry about communicating them.
You make it THEIR problem.
Sarah has struck just the right cords!

[NoGrayZone]

BTTT!

[Stegall Tx]

GREAT JOB, quesney! Newsbusters has dug up the interview that Charlie Gibson did with John Edwards when he was chosen as a VP four years ago.

It's an interesting contrast.

[RachelFaith]

I've spent years listening to liberals, considering their opinions and positions, evaluating their conduct and their arguments. Here's my conclusion.

Liberals, as a group, are godless, immoral, arrogant, ignorant and hateful.

YES THEY ARE !!

[Chuzzlewit]

bookmarked

[kezzek]

Is there video of the Obama-Gibson interview to put along side the Palin interview?

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

This interview with Obama was after he clinched the nomination after a 12 month battle. That's not when you ask hard-hitting policy questions - Obama had his positions questioned and he explained them throughout the debates.

Obama has never had a comparable hardball interview from the ABC, NBC, CBS or CNN too my knowledge.

The msm has been pitching softballs to 0bama.

[Ben Chad]

Good post. Who woulda thunk?

[SmartInsight]

Excellent posting.

Gibson has been despicable the way he was badgering Palin, while not asking a single hard question of Obama, even thought Obama is running for PRESIDENT and Palin only for VP.

He was really trying to ask something they can use against Sarah.

“GIBSON: Would you favor putting Georgia and Ukraine in NATO?
GIBSON: Because Putin has said he would not tolerate NATO incursion into the Caucasus.
GIBSON: And under the NATO treaty, wouldn’t we then have to go to war if Russia went into Georgia?
GIBSON: And you think it would be worth it to the United States, Georgia is worth it to the United States to go to war if Russia were to invade.
GIBSON: Let me turn to Iran. Do you consider a nuclear Iran to be an existential threat to Israel?
GIBSON: So what should we do about a nuclear Iran? John McCain said the only thing worse than a war with Iran would be a nuclear Iran. John Abizaid said we may have to live with a nuclear Iran. Who’s right?
GIBSON: So what do you do about a nuclear Iran?
GIBSON: But, Governor, we’ve threatened greater sanctions against Iran for a long time. It hasn’t done any good. It hasn’t stemmed their nuclear program.
GIBSON: What if Israel decided it felt threatened and needed to take out the Iranian nuclear facilities?
GIBSON: So if we wouldn’t second guess it and they decided they needed to do it because Iran was an existential threat, we would cooperative or agree with that.
GIBSON: So if it felt necessary, if it felt the need to defend itself by taking out Iranian nuclear facilities, that would be all right.
GIBSON: We talk on the anniversary of 9/11. Why do you think those hijackers attacked? Why did they want to hurt us?”

[gov_bean_ counter]

Gone are the days where we are left to wonder what was left on the cutting room floors. It is clear now that last night ABC used the 10 minutes before the interview to define Gov. Palin and used a poorly edited interview in an attempt to back it up. Then the tried to put the cherry on top with two libs and a RINO.

Ten years ago this may have worked. No more. Monday morning Bortz, Limbaugh, Hannity and others will all be bringing Americans up to speed with "the rest of the story".

I genuinely hope the McCain campaign demands ABC rebroadcast the entire interview or risk having access to their candidates cut off for the rest of the campaign.

[supercat]

Thank God for the millions of Americans who think for themselves and resist the relentless, ceaseless, ubiquitous, ruthless propaganda bombarding them constantly from The Democrat Party Propaganda Machine, also known as the "Mainstream Newsmedia", the "Corrupt Newsmedia", et al.

In 1929, Vertov filmed Man with a Movie Camera. In one scene, a woman in a shooting gallery shoots a swastika-bearing likeness of Hitler, popping open a sign reading "Father of Fascism". What did the Russians know that we didn't?

BTW, is there any practical way to extract clips from the above link?

[Thane_Banquo]

What the left-wing media hacks like Charlie Gibson don’t understand is that, thanks to their soft touch on Senator Obama, when people go into the voting booth, they’re going to think, “I honestly know nothing material about this Obama guy, so I’m voting for McCain.”

[hsrazorback1]

This is begging for video.