Palin says Katie Couric interviews were 'unfair'

[toontra]

Apparently Couric was unfair in her interviewing technique because she didn't ask the questions which Palin would have most liked to answer! Politics is sure a hard and nasty business.

LINK (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/sarahpalin/3132444/Sarah-Palin-says-Katie-Couric-interviews-were-unfair.html)

[és:]

I hope the American public can see this for what it really is - a subconscious admission that when it comes to the nitty gritty against world leaders, she doesn't have the strength to deal with them.

I liked it when she said "I wanted to talk about Barack Obama increasing taxes, which would lead to killing jobs", despite him cutting taxes for most people. Quite why people will be voting for that pair of imbeciles, I don't know.

America, you deserve better than this. We deserve better than this.

[Anuba]

I liked it when she said "I wanted to talk about Barack Obama increasing taxes, which would lead to killing jobs", despite him cutting taxes for most people. Quite why people will be voting for that pair of imbeciles, I don't know.
Maybe Obama could tell her that this pseudo-argument is getting old.

Denmark has the highest taxes in the world (48.4% of GDP) and an unemployment rate of 1.9% (May 2008).

The U.S. has some of the lowest taxes in the world (20% of GDP) and an unemployment rate of 5.7% (July 2008).

Taxes kill jobs? So... with much lower taxes, all Danes would have three jobs? :rolleyes:

Here's the thing: Denmark uses these taxes to finance universal healthcare, generous unemployment benefits (90% of your most recent salary), subsidized higher education etc. When employers don't have to pay for health insurance, dental plans etc, it frees up capital for hiring more people. When anyone can get a decent education, you get a very competent work force, a force to reckon with on the global scene. You avoid evolving into a country with millions of illiterate good-for-nothing morons who are only capable of flipping burgers or robbing banks.

[Frisco]

Did anyone see the Fox Palin interview last night? It was sickening. Basically they asked her every question that she couldn't answer correctly during the Couric interview.

Remember the Supreme Court question? This time she spitted out 3 cases with details. I couldn't believe how rigged the whole thing was.

Oh and by the way Palin reads the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. Yeah right!

[Thomas Veil]

She accuses Couric of "not asking the right questions"? Fer cryin' out loud....

Anybody see a parallel between that and her debate comment to Gwen Ifill that (I'm paraphrasing here), "I'm not going to answer the question you asked, I'm going to talk straight to the American people and tell them what they need to hear"?

In other words, "I came here to talk about my talking points, and I'm going to ignore anything anyone else has to say."

And that, my friends, is exactly like Dubya and the rest of the neocons.

Well, I'm glad she said this. I hope it gets a lot of press. The Republicans are hoping the debate bolstered her image...and this whiny attitude sure ain't gonna do that.

[Anuba]

By definition, no question you ask a VP candidate can possibly be "unfair".

"What newspapers do you read"?! Britney Spears can name a newspaper. Flavor Flav can name a newspaper. A third grader can name a newspaper. Homeless bums who sleep on newspapers can name a newspaper. Osama Bin Laden can name a whole bunch of them, heck, he's probably reading Wall Street Journal right now.

[rdowns]

How nice of Fox News' Carl Cameron to give her a do-over.

Ms. Palin explained that she stumbled in the Couric interviews not because she didn’t know the answers, but that she was annoyed with the interview because she thought the questions did not focus enough on the qualities needed in a vice president.

Sorry, Sarah. You don't get to dictate the types of questions unless you only speak to Fox.

Seems to me that where and how she gets her news are related to her qualifications to be VP. You betcha, your knowledge of Supreme Court decisions are related to your qualifications to be VP. Whether you know what the Bush Doctrine is is related to your qualifications to be VP.

Mr. Cameron noted, “there is a sense that she went back to the books and got her answer.”

You think?

[scotthayes]

just when I think she can not get any more pathetic, she goes and proves me wrong.

[balamw]

The Republicans are hoping the debate bolstered her image...and this whiny attitude sure ain't gonna do that.

All she's doing is confirming Phil Gramm's position earlier in he summer that we are a nation of whiners (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/us/politics/11campaign.html), or at least some of our leaders are... Thank God this recession is only a mental one!

B

[mactastic]

If you can't handle Katie Couric, how are you going to be able to handle Pootie-Poot, or Chavez, or any of the other world leaders that don't like us?

[TheAnswer]

If you can't handle Katie Couric, how are you going to be able to handle Pootie-Poot, or Chavez, or any of the other world leaders that don't like us?

Duh...by ignoring or not talking to them!! Then they will just go away, right??

[Anuba]

If you can't handle Katie Couric, how are you going to be able to handle Pootie-Poot, or Chavez, or any of the other world leaders that don't like us?
Those aren't a problem, because they're men. Just look at how the Pakistani guy drooled and called her "gorgeous". She'll make them sign anything.

Katie Couric on the other hand, is an intelligent woman, which is kryptonite for Palin. She loses all her superpowers in close proximity to Couric. She will only allow men to interview her from now on.

[Frisco]

Palin is a pit bull with no teeth.

[Iscariot]

Does Palin remind anyone else of Bobby's mom from Bobby's World?

"For love and misery, Russia! I just don't have time for these gee golly false alarms, I'm just too busy don'tcha know?" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5eDlwcm95I)

[takao]

Palin is a pit bull with no teeth.

more like teeth without a pitbull

seriously after the "ok" performance he comes out with stuff like this ? what the hell

[SMM]

Maybe someone needs to explain to her what the differences are between a speech, interview and press conference? Couric's questions were not difficult, or tricky. Biden was asked the very same questions, and bam, he had an answer.

The FOX show was carefully scripted to give her a little more momentum, after surviving the debate. However, the smiling, winking facade is meaningless, as long as they continue to carefully orchestrate her every move.

I recall all the fun we had with Dan Quayle. I did not think anyone could ever get close to the 'point on the bar' he achieved. But, that record is in jeopardy. Both of them are certified idiots, but Palin is also dangerous. Quayle, not so much.

[Don't panic]

courtesy of Greenday (http://www.last.fm/music/Green+Day/_/She's+a+Rebel)

She's a bigot,
She's a saint,
She's the scourge of the earth
And she's dangerous.

She's an moron,
Vigilante,
Missing link on the brink
Of destruction

From Wasilla To Miami,
She's the one that they
Call old whatsername

She's the symbol
Of desistance
And she's sucking out my
brain like a vacuum pump

Is she ever
even thinking?
Is she the mother of all bombs?
Gonna detonate.

Is she trouble power grabber?
Make it a double Twist of fate,
Or a melody that

She sings the friggin rapture,
armageddon to our lives,
She brings this desperation,
That I just can't defy,
Nothing comes to mind

She's a bigot,
She's a saint,
She's the scourge of the earth
And she's dangerous.

She's an moron,
Vigilante,
Missing link on the brink
Of destruction
...

[solvs]

I stand by my post earlier where I linked to things like this:

The dumbing down of the GOP (http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/10/04/dumb/)

It's pathetic.

[Schtumple]

In other news Palin said Katie Couric was a doo doo head and isn't speaking to her ever again and is telling on her, to the principle! :eek:

I love to hate american politics, it's so funny from an outside perspective, I'd be embarrassed to have Palin as a figure for government, she's almost as bad as Boris Johnson, but atleast he's only mayor, and damn funny, she's just stupid funny...

[jonnyb]

In other news Palin said Katie Couric was a doo doo head and isn't speaking to her ever again and is telling on her, to the principle! :eek:

I love to hate american politics, it's so funny from an outside perspective, I'd be embarrassed to have Palin as a figure for government, she's almost as bad as Boris Johnson, but atleast he's only mayor, and damn funny, she's just stupid funny...

Much as I dislike Johnson's politics, you can't compare a man who has a classical Oxford education and can speak Latin, Greek, French, and (I think) German with a woman who can't name a single newspaper that she reads.

[Thomas Veil]

All she's doing is confirming Phil Gramm's position earlier in he summer that we are a nation of whiners (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/us/politics/11campaign.html), or at least some of our leaders are... Well, to paraphrase Tom Hanks: "There's no crying in politics!"

I stand by my post earlier where I linked to things like this:

The dumbing down of the GOP (http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/10/04/dumb/)

It's pathetic.I kinda said that elsewhere. The Republicans seem largely only to be able to run intellectually lazy people for the highest office in the land.

OTOH, the smart ones, the intellectual but corrupt schemers, are the ones behind the scenes, like Cheney.