Showing posts with label Interviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Interviews. Show all posts
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Palin: Worst Thing Cheney Did Was Shoot Guy in Face
From the Greatest Hits Collection of the Palin/Couric interview, Sarah Palin thinks that the very worstest thing in the whole wide world that Dick Cheney did was shoot that guy in the face:
Katie Couric: What do you think is the best and worst thing that Dick Cheney has done as vice president?
Palin: Worst thing, I guess that would have been the duck-hunting accident, where you know, that was an accident. And that I think that was made into a caricature of him. And that was kind of unfortunate.
So, an accidental hunting mishap is the worst thing our law-breaking, ultrasecretive war criminal of a Vice President has done, eh?
Not shredding the Constitution?
Not crafting a sweeping illegal wiretapping program?
Not architecting the systematic torture of detainees?
Not leaking the identity of a CIA agent?
This woman isn't just unqualified, she's terrifying.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Palin Can't Name a NEWSPAPER That She Reads
You seriously can't make this sh*t up. The gaffes, bullsh*t, lies and embarrassments just seem to keep coming from Sarah Palin and her encounters with Katie Couric. In a recent impromptu Q&A, Palin couldn't even name a single NEWSPAPER that she reads!
Here's what was said:
Couric: And when it comes to establishing your worldview, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?
Palin: I’ve read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media.
Couric: What, specifically?
Palin: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me all these years.
Couric: Can you name a few?
Palin: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news, too. Alaska isn’t a foreign country, where it’s kind of suggested, “Wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of Washington, D.C., may be thinking when you live up there in Alaska?” Believe me, Alaska is like a microcosm of America.
Are we sure Palin and Bush weren't separated at birth?
Pity Palin? Cry Me a Freaking River
Sharp literary minds have repeatedly woven her trials and tribulations into a metaphorical tableau evoking simpler times when, yes, we too experienced the pains of a book report in seventh grade gone awry or a mean teacher in high school who called us on something we didn't know.
Regardless of the college debate I once flubbed, I am 100% done with the Sarah Palin pity party. After all, we're not talking about a college debate, a book report or a mean teacher. We're talking about someone that could conceivably ascend to the most powerful political office in the world.
Seriously, just think on that the next time you feel the urge to lactate in sympathy to the crying of Sarah Palin's inner child yearning to run free.
When McCain and his campaign came a-calling, she had all the power. She could have done the right thing and politely said NO and spared her family (and the world) the pain she has now foisted upon us.
Here's Salon's Rebecca Traister with sentiments echoing my own:
Like everyone else, I can barely take the waves of embarrassment that come with watching someone do something so badly. Roseanne Barr singing the national anthem, Sophia Coppola acting in "The Godfather: Part III," Sarah Palin talking about Russia -- they all create the same level of eyeball-squinching discomfort...
It was so predictable that we would get to a pity-poor-helpless-Sarah phase. The press was already warming up for it on the day McCain announced her as his running mate, when NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell speculated that McCain's choice was designed to declaw scrappy Joe Biden, whose aggressive style would come off as bullying next to the sweet hockey mom from Alaska. Now, of course, we know about the hockey moms and the pit bulls; the more-powerful-than-expected Palin juggernaut forestalled the pity/victim/mean boy/poor Sarah phase.
So here it is, finally. And as unpleasant as it may be to watch the humiliation of a woman who waltzed into a spotlight too strong to withstand, I flat out refuse to be manipulated into another stage of gendered regress -- back to the pre-Pelosi, pre-Hillary days when girls couldn't stand the heat and so were shooed back to the kitchen.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Interview Sarah Palin
Feeling down that Sarah Palin won't give press conferences and the few interviews she's given have been incoherent brain-melters on a colossal scale? A new website allows YOU to interview a virtual Sarah Palin!
Check it out here
Sunday, September 28, 2008
SNL Lampoons Sarah Palin Again - Video
Saturday Night Live last night was brilliant in lampooning Sarah Palin again. The funniest part about it is that much of the words coming out of Tina Fey's mouth were originally spoken by Sarah Palin!
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Quote of the Day II
Conservative writer Daniel Larison has more on the Palin-Couric interview debacle:
[Sarah Palin] is a natural product of mass democracy’s ongoing pursuit of charismatic mediocrity, in which voters not only seek someone with whom they can identify but also actively discourage politicians’ cultivation of expertise. Expertise grates against their egalitarianism, and so they try to avoid it in their political leaders.
Quote of the Day
Here's Fallows on the Palin-Couric interview fiasco:
George W. Bush is in a completely different and superior league to what we've seen from Palin. When people made fun of his inexpressiveness in the 2000 campaign (and onwards), it was because he mispronounced words or used cliches. It was nothing like the total inability to express any coherent thought on any issue outside "values politics" that Palin has revealed.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Cafferty: Palin Should 'Scare the Hell Out of You'
CNN's Jack Cafferty unloads on Sarah Palin in this clip, saying "if [the thought of Sarah Palin becoming President] doesn't scare the hell out of you, it should", and that her interview was "one of the most pathetic pieces of tape I have ever seen for someone aspiring to one of the highest offices in the country." Ouch.
Orwell, Sarah Palin and the Utility of Meaningless Words
Michael Leddy makes a great point when reflecting on the blathering nonsense that came out of Sarah Palin during her Katie Couric interview:
As George Orwell points out in "Politics and the English Language," one need not take on the responsibility of thinking when composing sentences:You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent — and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself. It is at this point that the special connection between politics and the debasement of language becomes clear.
Look at what we have here — ready-made phrases, stray bits of language, as if pulled together from some desperate cramming for an exam: back on the right track, health care reform, job creation, one in five jobs, opportunity, reform that is needed, reducing taxes, reining in spending, shore up our economy, tax reductions, tax relief, the trade sector, the umbrella of job creation.
Right-Wing National Review Writers Are Over Sarah Palin
Oh, how quickly the Palin sweater unravels with the incessant tug-tug-tugging of reality and incompetence.
Even some ultra-right-wing writers over at the National Review have jumped off the Palin Doubletalk Express:
Even Kathryn Jean Lopez ain't impressed:“It was fun while it lasted.
Palin’s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League.
No one hates saying that more than I do. Like so many women, I’ve been pulling for Palin, wishing her the best, hoping she will perform brilliantly. I’ve also noticed that I watch her interviews with the held breath of an anxious parent, my finger poised over the mute button in case it gets too painful. Unfortunately, it often does. My cringe reflex is exhausted. Palin filibusters. She repeats words, filling space with deadwood. Cut the verbiage and there’s not much content there.”
I know I like a lot of what I’ve heard her say. I also know a lot of what I like about her could be projection. I’m not where my friend Kathleen Parker is — wanting her to step aside to spend more time with her family and Alaska — but that’s not a crazy suggestion.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Quote of the Day III
Referring to Sarah Palin's travesty of an interview on CBS last night, conservative Daniel McCarthy has this to say:
After watching this, I think the McCain-Palin ticket is on course to disprove the old adage that no one ever went broke overestimating the stupidity of the American public. Even Homo boobiens has to be smarter than this.
Sarah Palin Thinks Bailout is About HEALTHCARE
Look, I know some of you fair-minded people out there wanted to give My Fair Lady From Alaska a little leeway before you judged her qualifications to become President of the United States if something happened to John McCain. But, at this point, and after last night's train wreck of a Katie Couric interview, if you still have any reservations, I must insist that you give back your right to vote:
COURIC: "Why isn't it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families who are struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? Allow them to spend more, and put more money into the economy, instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?"
PALIN: "That's why I say I, like every American I'm speaking with, were ill about this position that we have been put in. Where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh, it's got to be about job creation, too. Shoring up our economy, and getting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans, and trade -- we have got to see trade as opportunity, not as, uh, competitive, um, scary thing, but one in five jobs created in the trade sector today. We've got to look at that as more opportunity. All of those things under the umbrella of job creation."
Watch It:
As Steve Benen puts it:
[T]he truth is, Palin is getting worse at answering questions, not better... With some time in government, Palin might become a less embarrassing candidate. But at this point, it's almost unfair for McCain to set her up for this kind of fiasco.
Friday, September 12, 2008
McCain Blames Obama for McCain Camp's Lies and Smears
The mental gymnastics going on inside McCain's head these days is truly stunning.
As part of last night's forum on national service, John McCain was asked about the tone and direction of the presidential campaign."I think the tone of this whole campaign would've been very different if Sen. Obama had accepted my request for us to appear at town hall meetings all over America."
As Steve Brenen puts it:
To hear McCain tell it, the only way for the presidential campaign to be respectful and substantive is for McCain to get to know Obama better by sharing a stage and arguing with him... This is just pathetic excuse-making -- McCain's running an ugly and deceptive campaign, but that's okay because he just hasn't gotten to know Obama very well. Indeed, by this reasoning, it's Obama's fault McCain has been so despicable -- if he'd only agreed to 15 town-hall debates like McCain wanted, McCain wouldn't have to be so persistently repugnant.
Looking at the Moon Doesn't Make You an Astronaut
This quote-and-response regarding the Palin interview is just too awesome not to point out. From Balloon Juice:
Pressed about what insights into recent Russian actions she gained by living in Alaska, Palin answered: “They’re our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.”
Our very own Krista, in the comments, responds:And when I look out my window I can see the moon. Doesn’t make me a f*cking astronaut now, does it?
Quote of the Day
A perfect summary of the Palin interview:
"To see the ridiculous is comic; to be ridiculous is tragic."
ABC News Fact Checks Sarah Palin Interview
Oh wow, Jake Tapper of ABC News takes Palin apart in this ABC News fact check on her interview last night with Charlie Gibson. Ouch.
Go here to view the video.
Sarah Palin: No Idea What Bush Doctrine Is
First, I'll grant you that people that don't generally follow politics wouldn't know this either. Ultimately, however, shouldn't the person running for Vice President of the United States?
When asked in her break from complete media blockade interview on ABC News last night what the 'Bush Doctrine' was, this was her stumbling, uninformed answer:
Watch It:Gibson: Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?
Palin: In what respect, Charlie?
Gibson: What do you interpret it to be?
Palin: His worldview.
Gibson: No, No, the Bush Doctrine. He enunciated it in September 2002, before the Iraq War.
Palin: I believe that what President Bush has attempted to do is to rid this world of Islamic extremism, terrorists who are hellbent on destroying our nation. There have been blunders along the way, though. There have been mistakes made. And with new leadership--and that's the beauty of American elections and democracy--with new leadership comes the opportunity to do things better.
Gibson: The Bush Doctrine, as I understand it, is that we have the right of anticipatory defense. We have the right to preemptively strike any other country that we believe is going to attack us.
Palin: I agree that a president's job, when they swear in their oath to uphold our Constitution, their top priority is to defend the United States of America.
I know that John McCain will do that and I, as his vice president, families we are blessed with that vote of the American people and are elected to serve and are sworn in on January 20, that will be our top priority is to defend the American people.
I repeat, this is the person running for Vice President of the United States, who is completely uninformed on what most would argue is the most important foreign policy pronouncement in the years since 9/11.
The mind reels.
Here's Andrew Sullivan:
Actually, [a President's] first priority is to defend the constitution of the United States. Palin doesn't even know the oath she is supposed to swear. And any serious person who has followed the debates about US foreign policy knows what the Bush doctrine is. But we do not have a serious pick for the vice-presidency in the GOP, do we? We have an absurdity. And a joke.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
McCain To Punish Any Media That Questions Campaign
Sigh. Not much else to sat than that. After the past few days of being in high dudgeon over the reckless and irresponsible trainwreck-to-be Sarah Palin, I don't have enough indignation left to fully scream to the mountaintops about this. But it's really shameful.
In essence, the McCain campaign has decided to aggressively punish and malign any news organization that - gasp - does its job and asks tough questions of any McCain surrogate. That is to say, any media outlet that doesn't allow a surrogate to just recite unchallenged talking points.
Yesterday, Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds appeared on CNN for an interview with Campbell Brown. Brown was tough on Bounds, refusing to let him spout typical campaign talking points. She repeatedly pressed him on Palin’s foreign policy experience and qualifications, asking him to name one decision that she made as commander-in-chief of the Alaskan National Guard. Bounds was unable to do so.Today, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer revealed that because of that tough interview, the McCain campaign has canceled the senator’s appearance on Larry King Live tonight:
The McCain campaign said it believed that exchange was over the line and as a result the interview scheduled for Larry King Live with Sen. McCain was pulled. CNN does not believe that Campbell’s interview was over the line. We are committed to fair coverage of both sides of this historic election.
Here's the video in question:
Monday, September 1, 2008
CNN's Campbell Brown Destroys McCain Spokesman
CNN's Campbell Brown took McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds to task today. Talking about Sarah Palin, he was repeatedly unable to point to any foreign policy experience and couldn't name a single instance where she's made a decision as head of Alaska's National Guard. Ouch!
Video:
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Meet the Obamas on Access Hollywood
Access Hollywood sat down with the whole Obama family for some light discussion recently. I watched most of this last night and found it very heart-warming.
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