Previously, Palin said that after the first segment with Couric – which was disastrous, she asked the McCain campaign if she could cancel the remaining segments. The answer was no, but I wonder about what Palin was thinking.
She was not plucked from obscurity, but expressed interest in VP a long time before McCain chose her. I don’t know why she did not think it was improtant to prepare for these very instances, where she would be required to answer basic, simple questions.
I’m looking forward to the book and interviews. Despite my feelings about Palin’s qualifications, I think she’s interesting, and definitely not your run-of-the-mill politician.
She writes at length about Couric. She says that the idea to meet with Couric came from McCain campaign aide Nicolle Wallace, who told Palin that Couric — also a working mother — liked and admired her. It would be a favor to Couric, too, whom Palin notes had the lowest ratings of the network anchors. Wallace said Couric suffered from low self-esteem. And Palin replied that she almost began to “feel sorry” for Couric.
She alleges that Couric and CBS left out her more “substantive” remarks and settled for “gotcha” moments. She writes that Couric had a “partisan agenda” and a condescending manner. Couric was “badgering,” biased and far easier on Couric’s Democratic counterpart, Joe Biden.
ZIEGLER: With regard to the Katie Couric interview, in general, how did you feel about it when you finished it? Did you feel as if it had gone well? Not well?
PALIN: No, I knew it didn’t go well. I knew it didn’t go well the first day and then we gave her a couple of other segments after that. And my question to the campaign was…After it didn’t go well the first day, why were we going to go back for more? And because of however it works in, you know, that upper echelon of powerbrokering in the media, and with spokespersons. It was, um — told me that, yeah, we were going to go back for more. And going back for more was not a wise decision either.
Good ole’ Sarah, always blaming the McCain camp. Great team player. How come she always gets a pass for throwing team McCain under the bus? I’ll tell you why. It’s because she’s a woman and she has a Downs Syndrome baby. Um, and she’s evangelical. So its a triple strength force field.
I love Sarah Palin ! Media lied of her- democrats lied of her. Meida ttked her with lies they made up..now look what really the main stream media wanted.It’s not us who votes./.it’s thos main stream media ae told to who to lie ofto get tm out.you see ity’s notus.unless we stand againt the main stream media as msnbc-cn-abc-cbs-nbc and shut tem down completly as to the whole network movies and all then we will never have a say !
liars..really at 22 % can you not get your hads out of themain stream media. it is 22 % people.look this isour country we are figting for and to now lo else where form the lying main stream ,then I fel so sorry for you all ! sarah Palin 2012 Aln Keye 2012, hey Alan Keyeis a full blooded African America, no a fake and fraud as Obama is ! Akan Keyee is great and cares of the people-christian
Ron Paul 2012 .. stop listening to the lies of msnbc look around folks,please..
I am an independent voter which mean… for my country not a party. dam look what’s all going on.the Afriacan Americans had been lied tothey took the bait as well as may voted fo this fraud just bevcause they though as media sid,, the fist black prisidenal canidate. . crap my ass he is.. Is is more white and arab hen he is only 5% black,, Alan Keyee is a great true African American ….If African Americans re in this to just say ..The first African America and no knowing anything more, I feel for them.I two would love the first African America ! but, I want the real deal all across the board. Obama is a fraud a liar a cheater- voters fraud- he took evn dead people to vote.. my god help us !
why does anyone vote as a race like playing fotball or bidding? it’s you freak’n country dam it !
vote congress out-vote nancy pelosi out-vote obama out 2102 vote all the bums out= vote democrats out 2010-2012 clean house out watcvh who you vote for ,,PLEASE
Voting is now open for who we should include with Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, and Mitt Romney on our next 2012 poll.
The choices are Rudy Giuliani, Rush Limbaugh, George Pataki, Ron Paul, and John Thune.
I didn’t put Jeb Bush, Newt Gingrich, or Tim Pawlenty on there simply because they’d been included in recent polls and we’re trying to test a wider variety of candidates. You can vote until Friday morning at 10 AM and the poll will be out toward the end of next week.
She was not plucked from obscurity, but expressed interest in VP a long time before McCain chose her.
Suddenly, I envision Palin sending McCain juicy mooseburgers embossed with edible photos of Palin’s legs.
But perhaps we’ve forgotten the earlier narrative of the National Review cabal that went on a cruise to Alaska just before she was nominated. As we know, the ink-stained NR wretches deplained in Anchorage — or perhaps the yacht’s pilots were drawn to the siren governor combing her swarthy locks on the beach? — where they embarked on bended knee to hand the Veep coronation to Sarah.
How this meeting of dye-hard McCain sycophants unfolded will forever remain a mystery, shrouded in an enigma, wrapped in a conundrum, etc…
My wife just told me that a friend of ours was at the Oprah/Palin taping. Of course, my wife didn’t think to ask how Palin did, just like I don’t think to ask how our friends’ kids are doing.
HEWITT: Let’s talk a little bit about the media, and not just in that episode but throughout the campaign. Let’s start with Governor Palin. Do you think Charles Gibson was fair to her in the first opening interview that she granted?
SCHMIDT: I do. I think it was a tough interview. I know Charlie Gibson well. I have a great deal of respect for him as an anchorman and as a serious journalist. And when you look at the problems that occurred in coverage during the 2008 campaign, I don’t think Charlie Gibson was one of them.
HEWITT: How about Katie Couric and Governor Palin?
SCHMIDT: Again, in my view, there was nothing that Katie Couric asked in that interview that was unfair to Governor Palin. It was not a good interview from the perspective of the McCain campaign, but there were no questions that were asked that were gotcha questions or where unfair questions. It was a devastating interview for Governor Palin when you look back on it. I think as I said the other day, I think it was the most consequential interview from a negative perspective that a candidate for national office has gone through, not since Roger Mudd interviewed Ten Kennedy in the late 1970s. But that doesn’t mean I don’t think that Governor Palin was treated fairly. She was treated unfairly by a lot of the media during the course of the campaign.
HEWITT: Do you think Charles Gibson was fair to her in the first opening interview that she granted?
SCHMIDT: I do.
I think McCain’s senior staff had become so cozy with top press brass that they negotiated badly for their MSM rollout of Palin.
It isn’t unusual in PR to request a set of conditions. In this case, it would have been wise for the McCain staff to rely on the different anchors’ editing decisions. As an alternative, they could have asked that the interviews be “uncut” and only made Palin available for the number of broadcast seconds planned. The Mac camp should also have insisted that they be allowed to set up their own independent camera(s) for a backup.
For whatever reason — perhaps they were too unsure of Palin’s abilities themselves, I don’t pretend to know — they left all the final editorial decisions to the mainstream bigs.
I commend the president for acknowledging today that “there are limits to what government can and should do” to ease our 10.2% unemployment rate – the highest it’s been since 1983. I also applaud his call for suggestions and expression of openness to considering “any demonstrably good idea.” Taking him at his word, I’d like to suggest this one: let’s learn from history and follow the example of the man who occupied the White House in 1983 and was able to transform an even worse recession than the one we’re currently experiencing into the largest peacetime economic expansion in American history.
When you realize the magnitude of President Reagan’s achievements, there is absolutely no reason why anyone would ignore his “demonstrably good” example. If you want real job growth, cut taxes – including capital gains taxes and small business payroll taxes – and slay the death tax once and for all. If you want to stimulate the economy and help poor and middle class families, cut payroll taxes so that more Americans can keep and invest more of what they earn.
If you want lasting economic expansion and prosperity, get the federal government’s budget under control. Instead of more pork-laden stimulus plans, let the free market correct itself. That’s what Reagan did, and history proves it worked.
In his comments today, the president honorably suggested that he welcomes our ideas on how to put America’s economy on the right track. But, there also seemed to be a suggested chastisement of the private sector’s efforts to right some economic wrongs when he said, “…small businesses and large firms…have not yet been willing to take the steps necessary to hire again.”
As business owners seek to expand, or just to keep doors open today, it’s not as if they are refusing to hire out of spite. Given a pro-private sector environment they will be only too happy to hire more people and grow their businesses. Perhaps if leadership in Washington reassured them by, for example, cutting tax burdens and making government more efficient, it would send our businesses a message that it’s safe and smart to expand today.
These are difficult times for so many Americans who are out of work. I implore our leaders to not threaten our economy’s job creators with increased taxes and job-killing schemes like cap-and-tax and the government health care takeover. Government needs to get out of their way and off their backs so that they can grow and hire again.
The lessons of history are clear. We’re blessed to have so many lessons from which to learn, and we’d be smart to emulate successes in America’s past. Our economic recovery decisions should be based on the same free market principles that Reagan employed. They work, history proves it, and I thank our president for asking for this input.
Good thoughts there on #19. You’ve become one of my must-read commentators here. When you’re not being insightful, you’re funny as hell, and I like that…
Sarah Palin, as ubiquitous as Obama? On Oprah, on Facebook, on Twitter, in your bookstore, she’s everywhere! Whatever happened to disappearing and boning up on issues?
I know its heretical to suggest that tax cuts may not be the cure all for the economy but perhaps the marginal usefulness of quoting Reagan has reached its maximum. New ideas anyone?
If McCain would have got into office and cut government spending, with no stimulus or anything besides tax cuts, he would currently be in the low 40s in approval, and the Democrats would be slamming him for doing nothing…
I wish to revise my comments in 23. Knee-jerk reaction tonight. Good points by SP. She didn’t just argue to cut taxes, she argued for less government intervention and I support that.
I couldn’t get around her in the checkout line at Kroger’s today. You can imagine how long it took to scan two carts full for that big of a family. It really is overwhelming.
You realize that voters’ top two concerns are jobs and the deficit, and voters are turning on him en masse on both?
But Obama is killing the former and exploding the latter for the sake of voters’ 375th biggest concern- giving subsidized insurance to those who already receive free health care.
-”I know its heretical to suggest that tax cuts may not be the cure all for the economy but perhaps the marginal usefulness of quoting Reagan has reached its maximum. New ideas anyone?”
New free trade agreements, and more smart investment by the government in business. If the government must do a stimulus, it ought to at least do one that can create some permanent jobs.
All candidates get a hard time by the media, that’s why they prepare themselves as much as they can, Palin is no different, did she think she was going to be treated different…I think she did
I saw the Couric and Gibson interviews, and it was obvious she was not prepared like she should have been, she should have been able to answer the questions.
I don’t think Palin really knew what to expect. They went after her with a little extra ferocity than even your standard Republican, she’d never been close to such a big stage, and she was very unprepared, which is part her fault, and part the campaign’s fault.
Being relatively new to politics, I’m not familiar with those two bad interviews. Were they so bad they overshadow what she has done since? I would guess that everyone might give a bad interview once in while. I’m just here to learn how to beat Obama so my kids might grow up free and able to keep any wealth they might earn. At this point, I don’t care if it’s Mitt, Huck, Sarah, or Spongebob Squarepants.
The Republican National Committee’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls “a fundamental assault on innocent human life.”
Federal Election Commission Records show the RNC purchases its insurance from Cigna. Two sales agents for the company said that the RNC’s policy covers elective abortion.
Informed of the coverage, RNC spokeswoman Gail Gitcho told POLITICO that the policy pre-dates the tenure of current RNC Chairman Michael Steele.
“The current policy has been in effect since 1991, and we are taking steps to address the issue,” Gitcho said.
According to several Cigna employees, the insurer offers its customers the opportunity to opt out of abortion coverage – and the RNC did not choose to opt out.
The Republican National Committee told its members Wednesday night that it is reviewing its health insurance policy — a move announced after POLITICO reported that RNC employees have abortion coverage through their current plan.
In a letter obtained by POLITICO, RNC Chief of Staff Ken McKay writes to the 168 committee members across the country that “I can assure you that the chairman takes this issue very seriously.”
#39 Of course the chairman takes this seriously. It makes the RNC look incompetent. Do they not read their own bills either? That’s NOT what we need right now.
Guys, and in particular AK, I IMPLORE you to please watch all 5.46 mins of this video and state with a straight face that we should put this against the President:
To think we put this lady up for Vice President of the United States still boggles my mind. Where I live, she couldn’t get voted President of the local PTA.
Palin already has people scrambling to protect their reputations. I can’t believe she was so naive not to know or understand how structured campaigns have to be with the media. She had to know as a Governor that the press is not a friend, especially after the bridge to nowhere and the corruption charges of some Alaskan officials.
It also doesn’t make sense that she would have wanted to be so free and open with the media on the campaign trail while she’s been hiding from them for the last year. Her criticism of McCain’s staff is inconsistent.
It’s Giuliani-Palin or Palin-Giuliani whatever combination, works out best, it is
a double dose of Reaganism for 2012. By that time, Obama, is about ready to fall off the cliff, at the rate he is destroying the country!
_____________________________________________
November 12th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Previously, Palin said that after the first segment with Couric – which was disastrous, she asked the McCain campaign if she could cancel the remaining segments. The answer was no, but I wonder about what Palin was thinking.
She was not plucked from obscurity, but expressed interest in VP a long time before McCain chose her. I don’t know why she did not think it was improtant to prepare for these very instances, where she would be required to answer basic, simple questions.
November 12th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
I’m looking forward to the book and interviews. Despite my feelings about Palin’s qualifications, I think she’s interesting, and definitely not your run-of-the-mill politician.
November 12th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jlxDCO3o2Lipkwnit2WjvF0TCa5gD9BU8TPO0
November 12th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Go to the 2:26 mark to watch…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-95wkCMeUkk
November 12th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Sure, it was all gotcha. Just keep telling yourself that, Sarah.
You really didn’t know Couric was a partisan??
November 12th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Looks like Palin is determined to be the victim.
November 12th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Good ole’ Sarah, always blaming the McCain camp. Great team player. How come she always gets a pass for throwing team McCain under the bus? I’ll tell you why. It’s because she’s a woman and she has a Downs Syndrome baby. Um, and she’s evangelical. So its a triple strength force field.
November 12th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
In fairness to Palin, can Biden really be said to be much of an intelligent fellow himself?
November 12th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
I love Sarah Palin ! Media lied of her- democrats lied of her. Meida ttked her with lies they made up..now look what really the main stream media wanted.It’s not us who votes./.it’s thos main stream media ae told to who to lie ofto get tm out.you see ity’s notus.unless we stand againt the main stream media as msnbc-cn-abc-cbs-nbc and shut tem down completly as to the whole network movies and all then we will never have a say !
liars..really at 22 % can you not get your hads out of themain stream media. it is 22 % people.look this isour country we are figting for and to now lo else where form the lying main stream ,then I fel so sorry for you all ! sarah Palin 2012 Aln Keye 2012, hey Alan Keyeis a full blooded African America, no a fake and fraud as Obama is ! Akan Keyee is great and cares of the people-christian
Ron Paul 2012 .. stop listening to the lies of msnbc look around folks,please..
I am an independent voter which mean… for my country not a party. dam look what’s all going on.the Afriacan Americans had been lied tothey took the bait as well as may voted fo this fraud just bevcause they though as media sid,, the fist black prisidenal canidate. . crap my ass he is.. Is is more white and arab hen he is only 5% black,, Alan Keyee is a great true African American ….If African Americans re in this to just say ..The first African America and no knowing anything more, I feel for them.I two would love the first African America ! but, I want the real deal all across the board. Obama is a fraud a liar a cheater- voters fraud- he took evn dead people to vote.. my god help us !
why does anyone vote as a race like playing fotball or bidding? it’s you freak’n country dam it !
vote congress out-vote nancy pelosi out-vote obama out 2102 vote all the bums out= vote democrats out 2010-2012 clean house out watcvh who you vote for ,,PLEASE
November 12th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Click Here to Vote!
http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2009/11/vote.html
November 12th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
^ I’m voting Rudy, but I’d also like to see Ron Paul included.
November 12th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Suddenly, I envision Palin sending McCain juicy mooseburgers embossed with edible photos of Palin’s legs.
But perhaps we’ve forgotten the earlier narrative of the National Review cabal that went on a cruise to Alaska just before she was nominated. As we know, the ink-stained NR wretches deplained in Anchorage — or perhaps the yacht’s pilots were drawn to the siren governor combing her swarthy locks on the beach? — where they embarked on bended knee to hand the Veep coronation to Sarah.
How this meeting of dye-hard McCain sycophants unfolded will forever remain a mystery, shrouded in an enigma, wrapped in a conundrum, etc…
November 12th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
My wife just told me that a friend of ours was at the Oprah/Palin taping. Of course, my wife didn’t think to ask how Palin did, just like I don’t think to ask how our friends’ kids are doing.
November 12th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
The Couric interview was a prime example of liberal gotcha journalism.
November 12th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Mark, Palin raised her hand at a gov conference when asked who was interested in being considered for VP.
November 12th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
#15: Were there any witnesses? Or have they all met an untimely fate?
November 12th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Hugh Hewitt’s Interview with Steve Schmidt
April 27, 2009
http://townhall.com/blog/g/bda3b3bf-baf2-4f12-9953-6588a1f2f83b
November 12th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
I think McCain’s senior staff had become so cozy with top press brass that they negotiated badly for their MSM rollout of Palin.
It isn’t unusual in PR to request a set of conditions. In this case, it would have been wise for the McCain staff to rely on the different anchors’ editing decisions. As an alternative, they could have asked that the interviews be “uncut” and only made Palin available for the number of broadcast seconds planned. The Mac camp should also have insisted that they be allowed to set up their own independent camera(s) for a backup.
For whatever reason — perhaps they were too unsure of Palin’s abilities themselves, I don’t pretend to know — they left all the final editorial decisions to the mainstream bigs.
November 12th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Whoops! In this case, it would have been wise for the McCain staff not to rely on the different anchors’ editing decisions.
November 12th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Thank you, Washington, for Requesting a Demonstrably Good Idea
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=172871603434
November 12th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Mark,
Good thoughts there on #19. You’ve become one of my must-read commentators here. When you’re not being insightful, you’re funny as hell, and I like that…
November 12th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Kris,
Your boy is taking a beating on the thread above this one……..
November 12th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Sarah Palin, as ubiquitous as Obama? On Oprah, on Facebook, on Twitter, in your bookstore, she’s everywhere! Whatever happened to disappearing and boning up on issues?
I know its heretical to suggest that tax cuts may not be the cure all for the economy but perhaps the marginal usefulness of quoting Reagan has reached its maximum. New ideas anyone?
November 12th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
#21: Thanks,
sock puppetMWS.November 12th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
If McCain would have got into office and cut government spending, with no stimulus or anything besides tax cuts, he would currently be in the low 40s in approval, and the Democrats would be slamming him for doing nothing…
November 12th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
I wish to revise my comments in 23. Knee-jerk reaction tonight. Good points by SP. She didn’t just argue to cut taxes, she argued for less government intervention and I support that.
November 12th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
I couldn’t get around her in the checkout line at Kroger’s today. You can imagine how long it took to scan two carts full for that big of a family. It really is overwhelming.
November 12th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Kevin,
“If McCain would have got into office………”
……we wouldn’t have a $1.4 trillion deficit.
November 12th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Kevin,
You realize that voters’ top two concerns are jobs and the deficit, and voters are turning on him en masse on both?
But Obama is killing the former and exploding the latter for the sake of voters’ 375th biggest concern- giving subsidized insurance to those who already receive free health care.
November 12th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
-”I know its heretical to suggest that tax cuts may not be the cure all for the economy but perhaps the marginal usefulness of quoting Reagan has reached its maximum. New ideas anyone?”
New free trade agreements, and more smart investment by the government in business. If the government must do a stimulus, it ought to at least do one that can create some permanent jobs.
November 12th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Mark,
“#21: Thanks,
sock puppetMWS.”Just be sure you pay me on time this month………
November 12th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
All candidates get a hard time by the media, that’s why they prepare themselves as much as they can, Palin is no different, did she think she was going to be treated different…I think she did
I saw the Couric and Gibson interviews, and it was obvious she was not prepared like she should have been, she should have been able to answer the questions.
November 12th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
lkv,
I don’t think Palin really knew what to expect. They went after her with a little extra ferocity than even your standard Republican, she’d never been close to such a big stage, and she was very unprepared, which is part her fault, and part the campaign’s fault.
November 12th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
MSW
If Couric and Gibson feel Palin’s criticism is groundless and their reputations threatened, maybe they’ll put the full interview online.
.
November 12th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
lkv,
That would be interesting.
November 12th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
I am hearing that Governor Palin’s Oprah interview went very well and that she hit it out of the park. This could be a game changer.
November 12th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Pruce,
How often does the game change, in your view?
November 12th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Being relatively new to politics, I’m not familiar with those two bad interviews. Were they so bad they overshadow what she has done since? I would guess that everyone might give a bad interview once in while. I’m just here to learn how to beat Obama so my kids might grow up free and able to keep any wealth they might earn. At this point, I don’t care if it’s Mitt, Huck, Sarah, or Spongebob Squarepants.
November 12th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
RNC insurance plan covers abortion
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=EA3D5170-18FE-70B2-A8C580A892D7765E
RNC reviewing health care policy
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=EB57142D-18FE-70B2-A8A671F548803CB0
November 12th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
#39 Of course the chairman takes this seriously. It makes the RNC look incompetent. Do they not read their own bills either? That’s NOT what we need right now.
November 13th, 2009 at 2:03 am
39 – I read that…when will we grow up?
November 13th, 2009 at 2:14 am
Yes freak week is here!
Time to buy our popcorn and watch the show!
November 13th, 2009 at 2:20 am
CNN’s Larry King: Al Gore Discusses Sarah Palin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4GNtPGgtxM
November 13th, 2009 at 7:02 am
Guys, and in particular AK, I IMPLORE you to please watch all 5.46 mins of this video and state with a straight face that we should put this against the President:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrzXLYA_e6E
November 13th, 2009 at 9:19 am
I gutted it out Heath….although it was really, really painful.
November 13th, 2009 at 9:27 am
To think we put this lady up for Vice President of the United States still boggles my mind. Where I live, she couldn’t get voted President of the local PTA.
November 13th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
With all the drama surrounding Palin’s book and leaked accusations, hardly a peep from race?
What’s up with that?
November 13th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
The answer on the bail out is honestly the funniest thing I have ever heard a politician say in my life!
November 13th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Overall I like Sarah Palin, but sometimes she’s so stupid. After the Couric fiasco, she goes to Obama top supporter Oprah?!?!
I can’t seriously consider her as good material for a national election-unless the purpose is to lose.
November 13th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Palin already has people scrambling to protect their reputations. I can’t believe she was so naive not to know or understand how structured campaigns have to be with the media. She had to know as a Governor that the press is not a friend, especially after the bridge to nowhere and the corruption charges of some Alaskan officials.
It also doesn’t make sense that she would have wanted to be so free and open with the media on the campaign trail while she’s been hiding from them for the last year. Her criticism of McCain’s staff is inconsistent.
November 14th, 2009 at 8:13 am
It’s Giuliani-Palin or Palin-Giuliani whatever combination, works out best, it is
a double dose of Reaganism for 2012. By that time, Obama, is about ready to fall off the cliff, at the rate he is destroying the country!