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| Palin Slams Couric - The Gloves Are Now Off Until Election Day :-) |
| 2008-10-03 |
| Palin also commented Friday on her widely-panned series of interviews with Katie Couric, telling Fox interviewer she did not think the CBS News anchor asked enough issue-based questions. “I did feel there were a lot of things she was missing in terms of an opportunity to ask what a VP candidate stands for, what the values are that are represented in our ticket," Palin said. "I guess I have to apologize for being a bit annoyed, but that’s also an indication about being outside that Washington elite, outside that media elite also, and just wanting to talk to Americans without the filter and let them know what we stand for." In two separate and lengthy interviews with Couric over the last week, Palin seemed to struggle with a number of answers, including a defense of McCain's record on regulation issues. She also appeared to stumble when relating her views on the financial bailout, her foreign policy credentials, her preferred news sources of news, and a Supreme Court case she disagrees with. "Man, no matter what you say you are gonna get clobbered," Palin told Fox about her heavily-scrutinized performance. "You choose to answer you are going to get clobbered on the answer. If you choose to pivot and try to go onto another subject that you believe Americans want to hear about, you get clobbered for that too." |
| Posted by:Ebboluck Threater5881 |
| #10 F*ck the msm parrot press corps w/a capital F. They've given Obomba a huge pass - Ayers, Rezko, Wright, 57 states, Memorial day gaffe - all passes. Palin - they try to dig up some bullshit about her husband's driving record. Ridiculous. I have no confidence in them - Gibson was an asshole to Palin - and, he even lied about quoting her - fuck'em all. They have been out of line w/this lady. Sure, it is the big leagues but there ought to be a code of fair play and decency. I even thought Ifill was fair last night w/Palin & Biden, even wrt that idiotic book she wrote basically slobbing obama's knob. |
| Posted by: Flitch the Imposter aka Broadhead6 2008-10-03 23:14 |
| #9 If you're a conservative, the press is almost invariably your enemy simply due to their liberal bias. Most of them are incompetents who can't do that simple job properly, much less anything more complex, which is why they ended up as journos in the first place. RJSchwarz has it exactly right in his description of how to deal with them. Only reporters with a proven track record of fairness to conservatives should be allowed interviews with conservative candidates and even then all interviews should be videorecorded. Just because the reporter is decent doesn't mean his editor is. Cutting off lib reporters access won't hurt anything since they only tell lies anyway. If they don't get access the conservative candidate can always respond to their lies by noting that he never spoke to said reporter so it's obvious their story is cut from whole cloth. It's a pity it has had to come to this but the reality is that the MSM is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party. Failing to recognize that fact and respond accordingly is simply a self-inflicted wound. |
| Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-10-03 22:41 |
| #8 Palin is (or was) under the impression that Couric's and Gibson's goal was to imform the public. That was entirely wrong - their goal was to make her look as stupid, foolish, and unprepared as possible in order to bolster their own candidate. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-10-03 18:54 |
| #7 Candidate McCain can get as busy as he wants, but Senator McCain has really screwed up. It may be fatal to Candidate McCain's campaign. And the dolt doesn't even know it. At least he gave us Sarahcudda. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-10-03 18:12 |
| #6 What Palin and McCain should do is next time one of these hatchet gits from the Demonrats requests an interview, you know, people like Couric and Gibson, say this. "I'm sorry, we only grant interviews to actual journalists." |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2008-10-03 17:49 |
| #5 The bill passed in the House, and the president signed it. Senator McCain has done the job he set out to do last Wednesday, so now Candidate McCain can get busy. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-10-03 17:15 |
| #4 Why is McCain tanking? For not taking the gloves off. Both of you, take the damn gloves off, hit Bambi hard and get us interested in the race again instead of making it look like you are rolling over in the name of bipartisanship again! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-10-03 16:36 |
| #3 The MSM may be dead but they don't all know it yet, and a fatally wounded animal can be very dangerous. We have reached the day and age where politicans will only give interviews to pre-approved journalists with pre-approved questions and with their own cameras there to ensure editing games do not happen. It's sad but the journalist profession can not be trusted, not for a second. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-10-03 15:50 |
| #2 I dunno L1011 - the MSM is yesterdays' big leagues. It will interesting to see the Palin media strategy from here on - I expect a surge on talk radio, more friendly to her, as well as lots of local coverage. A sign of certain confidence is if she hits SNL in late October, and a sign of certain victory is if she goes on either of the Comedy Central shows - I can see the former, but will be shocked if she does the latter. |
| Posted by: Don Vito Omeling5062 2008-10-03 15:37 |
| #1 "If you choose to pivot and try to go onto another subject that you believe Americans want to hear about, you get clobbered for that too." It's called life in the big leagues, honey, get used to it. |
| Posted by: L1011 2008-10-03 15:32 |