FAREED ZAKARIA GPS 6/27/10 (Arianna and Spitzer defend and applaud Palin's opposition to bailouts)

CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS ^ | June 27, 2010 | Transcript of panel discussion

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ZAKARIA: And we are back with our star-studded panel, Arianna Huffington, Ross Douthat, Katrina vanden Heuvel and Eliot Spitzer.

Arianna, Sarah Palin is - is the - is the Right's answer to Obama going to be, you know, what traditionally happens with parties in opposition. They go to their base and they find somebody who is true to the base but probably can't win the general election.

HUFFINGTON: Well, Sarah Palin is responding to something beyond the base. She is responding to the anger at the bailout and she's responding to a sense of unfairness among the American people, which goes to independence, which goes to a lot of middle class Americans who are feeling that the game is rigged, that the fix is in and that, therefore, they are in real trouble. And she's appealing to that.

If you really interview a lot of the people in the Tea Party Movement, no matter what their first explanation is, their second explanation for their anger is the bailout, and I think Republicans and Democrats have to come to terms with that, especially now that we're seeing this anemic Wall Street reform going through, which we all know is not going to prevent the next meltdown.

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ZAKARIA: -- the optics of this? Because the optics of it are basically that rich bankers got a lot of money.

SPITZER: The president has failed to tap into what Arianna referred to, the anger in the populace at what has happened.

Sarah Palin has been the only political beneficiary of the anger that is out there in the public, and it's real and it's tangible. The Democratic Party has failed in that regard.

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Vanden Heuel sputtered (denied that The Nation was left-wing), but with Arianna and Spitzer's agreement with Palin's attacks on the bailouts:

ZAKARIA: But - but the angle of the Tea Party is about, you know, too much government. It's a very Right Wing kind of anger.

VANDEN HEUVEL: Very Right Wing. I mean, I think both Arianna and Eliot are right. The president should have put demands on Wall Street. Talk about personal responsibility, and in defaulting there he has left a vacuum open for the Right to seize this "I'm on your side" mantel.

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(correction) Vanden Heuel sputtered (denied that The Nation was left-wing), but agreed with Arianna and Spitzer’s agreement with Palin’s attacks on the bailouts...

[GeronL]

star-studded??

lol

[Crim]

Palin/West 12’

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[oprahstheantichrist]

"(Arianna and Spitzer defend and applaud Palin's opposition to bailouts)"

Okay, who's got that icicle covered "Hell" graphic?

[bravo whiskey]

more like rat infested

[Seizethecarp]

“Okay, who's got that icicle covered ‘Hell’ graphic?”

If I hadn't been lying down already when I heard this, I might have fallen out of my chair!

Obama is getting pounded left, right and center.

[newfreep]

"But - but the angle of the Tea Party is about, you know, too much government. It's a very Right Wing kind of anger."

So, following the Constitution and pursuing a small, limited Fed govt is Right Wing anger? Sheeesh, they still don't get it!

[heye2monn]

Go Palin!! Not an idiot, but a political genius.

Even three hard-core liberals praised her on This Week.

While complimenting her, they didn’t slip in a few insults about her intelligence, as they usually do.

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oops sorry for accidentally pinging you, the original poster. :)

[hennie pennie]

I’d luv to know what Governor Palin’s response to this is, but there’s nothing on her Twitter page, (yet.)

[oprahstheantichrist]

Found it

[hennie pennie]

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Don't miss this pic, it's GREAT!!