Oct 1st, 2008 at 8:28 pm
The Palin No Interviews Policy
So to be clear on the McCain campaign’s official view of Sarah Palin, she doesn’t have what it takes to do interviews with the mainstream media. They’re too mean and unfair. But she does have what it takes to negotiate an international treaty or see the country through a banking crisis. Talk to Wolf Blitzer? No can do. Help make sure that an India-Pakistan border crisis doesn’t become a nuclear war resulting in the deaths of tens of millions? Sure. She’s up to it.
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October 1st, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Bush was all hat, no cattle. She’s not even a hat. She’s fluff.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Did Hewitt actually say “hard left mainstream”? Doesn’t that sound like an oxymoron?
October 1st, 2008 at 8:41 pm
The astonishing thing is that at her pace of one interview a month, she could have had interviews with anyone they wanted. THEY PICKED Gibson and Couric. So now they’re saying that Gibson and Couric are also no good and there is not a single journalist in the mainstream media that will give Palin a fair shake?
October 1st, 2008 at 9:00 pm
The “hard left mainstream” is always ambushing her with beyond the pale questions like “what newspapers do you read?”.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:07 pm
WOW! Never knew we were more powerful than the governments of India and Pakistan put together!
October 1st, 2008 at 9:09 pm
She’s not even a hat. She’s fluff.
Do people like that hair, by the way? Looks like somebody’s >>> sister-in-law (censored due to politically correct constraints).
October 1st, 2008 at 9:31 pm
I caught Hewitt on CNN this evening. That’s fifteen minutes of my life I’ll never get back.
He’s clearly a bright fellow. What I then wonder is whether or not he believes the steady stream of bullshit coming out of his mouth.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:14 pm
As for Palin’s hair, let me give you some insight from a couple of years I worked in broadcasting as a news producer. I had to deal with lots of women reporters and anchors and the one thing I learned very quickly about them is that their hair would either make them or break them on-air. Anyway, to get to the point, the only reason they would ever put their hair up like Palin’s in her interviews, is that they didn’t want to have to wash their hair, blow dry it, then curl it, etc. In other words, it’s just easier to manage by just pulling it up and throwing something at it to hold it together. Rubber bands, bobby pins, you name it. I asked several of the women why they did this and they all admitted to me that they were simply lazy and they didn’t think anyone would care. Maybe for a typical day job they don’t care but trust me that having a really good head of hair is worth a goldmine for a women in the TV news business. I mean just ask yourself when was the last time you saw any of the anchor women having a bad hair day?
October 1st, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Paul wins the thread.
Or do we all lose?
I’m not sure, really…..
October 1st, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Considering that the MSM has done everything in their power against her short of running anti-Palin display ads in their own papers, one might think that even the most diehard hacks would realize how dangerous it is to have a media that’s so clearly biased. Apparently the party means more to them than what’s good for the country.
Let me make it just as easy as possible for MattY to understand, short of switching to BasicEnglish:
AnneKornblut of the WaPo (second link) gleefully solicited real questions for Palin, yet I’m not aware of her asking BHO a real question. In fact, her BHO question is so light it probably needs to be tied down lest it fly away.
Why hasn’t AnneKornblut asked her readers for questions she could ask BHO? I for one could come up with dozens.
Is such an obvious bias good for the country? It’s certainly good for the Party. MattY: can you tell the difference between the country and the Party?
October 1st, 2008 at 11:26 pm
When the Democratic Primaries were in progress I used very similar arguments about not voting for Hillary. I’m an Obama supporter and still wouldn’t vote for Hillary, but I have changed my mind about whether she had the qualifications. She definitely does. Palin does not. At all.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:35 pm
8: Dude, she’s from Alaska. I imagine they have different ideas about the need for hair maintenance. And if you based your political decisions on them… I don’t know what to tell you. There’s plenty of evidence to indicate that Palin is clueless.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Apparently the party means more to them than what’s good for the country.
A fucking low-rent, anti-immigrant dipshit is using this in the context of shilling for “Juan” McCain. Congratulations. You’ve made my day.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Not to put too fine point on it, 24, Obama’s been doing nothing but answering thousands of fucking questions for the past year and a half on every topic you can think of. Your little brain hasn’t the wit to generate a relevant question that has not already been asked and answered.
The media’s job is to convey information. When you give two fingers to them by having ZERO press conferences where they can ask you questions, they can get a little irate.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:17 am
Staying classy, nolaboyd says: Obama’s been doing nothing but answering thousands of fucking questions for the past year and a half on every topic you can think of
I’m not aware of BHO being asked anything remotely approaching the questions I’d ask him. I’m very much hampered with those because the questions are for others to ask and they’d only get to ask one question. But, if I were able to engage him in a back and forth discussion he’d probably have a breakdown. See also these topics that no one’s asked him about but which would make him look very bad:
24ahead.com/blog/archives/007603.html
24ahead.com/blog/archives/007954.html
The bottom line is that nolaboyd doesn’t realize what a real question is because its never heard one from the MSM.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:29 am
I think the whining about the evil liberal media is gonna come even close to working here. When everyone can see the Couric interviews and see that she asks typical questions. I mena good lord, what books, magazines, and news papers do you read isn’t a trick question, that is the Troll asking the Knight his favorite color. It was also a perfectly reasonable line of questioning to follow up to Palin earlier saying she didn’t travel abroad but got her undertsanding about the world from reading.
What really ruins it for them is when Biden is asked the exact same questions.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:30 am
Man you really need and edit, of course I meant to type: I don’t think…
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:41 am
Shorter 24AheadDotCom: I have questions. And nobody gives a shit about them but me.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:44 am
The bottom line is that nolaboyd doesn’t realize what a real question is because its never heard one from the MSM.
So what the hell happened? The MSM turned into a big brainwashing machine sometime between 2004 and now or they were in the tank for Bush before them? They hate John McCain, more than Bush? What?
It’s maddening dealing with the stupid, because they aren’t bright enough to figure out they are the stupid.
If you have the slightest bit going on upstairs, try and puzzle these things out after November.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:48 am
I can gladly report that I’ve never have clicked through to LoneWacko’s piece of shit site. Least. Successful. Blogwhore. Ever.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:56 am
Remember E. O’Neal? The guy who didn’t know the difference between an ‘asset’ and a ‘liability’? Well, it’s pretty clear that 24AheadDotCom doesn’t know the difference between ‘immigration’ and ‘Mexicans’.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:26 am
The tendency of sockpuppets to lie about my positions and engage in ad homs and nothing else shows I’m working. Thanks for that.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:32 am
Ambushing her, eh? Candidates of normal intelligence appear on real interview programs, like Meet the Press. Palin’s handlers, on the other hand, racked their brains looking for celebrity/human interest “journalists” who could be counted on not to lob hardballs or do tough follow-up when she answered with regurgitated talking points. They finally came up with Gibson and Couric, non-threatening people who, as some Democratic blogger put it, play journalists on TV. And out of the blue, mean ol’ Katie hit her with a gotcha question about what papers she reads! Man, you gotta be a Stephen Hawking-class intellect to be able to answer that one!
Clearly, the only remaining option is to find a less hostile and threatening venue for Palin. I suggest she go on Sesame Street and be interviewed by Elmo.
ELMO: Please, Sarah, tell Elmo, what is difference between your ass and a hole in the ground.
PALIN: Well, ah, Elmo, like many Americans in our great land, I’m, ah, familiar with holes in the ground, American working families sitting around the kitchen table dealing with holes in the ground, which is why we send them out over there, and why, like most Americans I talk to, I favor a healthcare reform that….
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:53 am
The tendency of sockpuppets to lie about my positions and engage in ad homs and nothing else shows I’m working.
Shorter 24AheadDotCom: I have questions. And nobody gives a shit about them but me. And I’m winning! Ha ha!
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:07 am
“In fact, her BHO question is so light it probably needs to be tied down lest it fly away.”
LOLZ!!!!!!!!!!
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:32 am
This is my attempt at a liberal defense of Palin, on the basis that I don’t think it’s possible to be AS stupid as she looks.
Palin’s a wingnut, with an excellent wingnut pedigree; a newsletter wingnut is not that different from an online wingnut. Since EVERYTHING is a gotcha moment for the wingnuts, she’s concerned about falling into a wingnut trap that will turn off her base (eg, saying that she believes in a constitutional right to privacy). Since the wingnuts are, by definition, insane, this paralyses Palin–absolutely anything can be attacked by the wingnuts.
Now, Bush and McCain, not being wingnuts themselves, simply don’t give a shit about the wingnut base–they understand that the wingnuts are intellectually dishonest enough to excuse a folksy Republican performing a back-alley coat-hanger abortion. Palin thinks the wingnuts care about what she says and does, when in fact they only care about what they’ve made her represent.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
There’s a very simple reason why she is being kept away from the media, as revealed on her secret blog:
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:45 pm
http://missalaska.wordpress.com/
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