McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha Journalism with Katie Couric
McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha Journalism with Katie Couric
#1McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha Journalism with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 8:28am
It's like watching a car wreck, except when it's over you can press "play" and watch it all over again.
And it gets better each time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RywhPtebuM
Pizza place?
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#2re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha Journalistm with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 8:39am
It was an embarrassment. It looked like dad had to be there with his little girl after she made a boo boo.
God help this country.
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mamie4 5/14/03
#2re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha Journalistm with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 8:40amBetween these interviews and the upcoming debate, Tina Fey is going to have a hard time choosing which Sarah Palin moment(s) to lampoon this week.
miss pennywise
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/04
#3re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha Journalistm with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 8:43amIf Tina is busy with another project one night, I truly believe that Julia Louis-Dreyfus could play Sarah. (Saw her last night on Letterman.) Has anyone ever been so mockable? Oh wait, we're talking about politics. That was a stupid question.
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Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#4re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha Journalistm with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 9:25am
What really scares me is how low the bar has been dropped for her limbo to proceed.
Thursday night, all she has to do is walk and talk without blowing a spit bubble or announce the wrong leader of the wrong country, and she will be hailed as a master politician --"See! She's smart,you just have to leave her alone!"
Make no mistake -- the string of recent disasters will only help her, because she literally has no where to go but up. People will be rooting for her comeback -- that's the "narrative" here.
And the country will desperately seek a new distraction this week. Reality has bitten, and left its dentures in our collective ass.
Whereas Biden now has a very high bar -- the senior statesman must prove he's lightyears more savvy than she. If he rambles or makes a single error, factual, tactical or perceived to be sextist (one patronizing "dear" and he's dead) he will be denounced as a geriatric, woman-hating rambler.
#5re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha Journalism with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 9:30amI still don't understand McCain's "Pizza place?" comment.
#6re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha Journalistm with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 9:31amAuggie - bottom line is that WE set the bar, not pundits or politicians. I do not think independents or undecided voters have low expectations, and that's what this is about.
#7re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha Journalistm with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 9:32amI hope she shows up at the debate in her red swimsuit.
#8re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha Journalism with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 9:34amWould that give her an unfair advantage over Biden?
#9re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha Journalism with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 9:52amNot if he wears hers.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#10re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha Journalism with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 9:57am
(one patronizing "dear" and he's dead)
I'd like to think all those RNC-sanctioned "Hottest VP from the Coolest State" buttons would make charges of sexism moot, but I'm not holding my breath.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#11re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha Journalism with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 10:15amOh, its that durned media just being so daggone mean to Palin again!! Curses!!
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#12re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha JoAurnalism with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 10:15am
I hope you're right,Madbrain. It's very noteworthy that leading Republicans like David Frum, George Will, and even never-trash-fellow-Republicans Mike Murphy have denounced her performance, Frum going so far as to say "Dan Quayle ever in his life has performed as badly as Sarah Palin in the last month."
What pisses me off is the last thing in the Times article today -- how she's "...frequently up until the small hours of the morning in herhotel room trying to cram as much info as possible before the debate..."
Wait just a minute.
This is the Vice Presidency of the United State -- possibly the Presidencey -- not a pass-fail exam in a subject other than your major. So instead of measuring the acquired wisdom and thoughtful responses of someone with years of careful, incremental study, we will be forced to give thumbs up/thumbs down to how well she processed her "cramming."
So it's the quality of all nighter that counts? Not ultimately the quality of the candidate?
And we wonder why the electorate is cynical.
#13re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha JoAurnalism with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 10:29am
Having been unfortunately surprised by what the public will swallow on the right, I agree with Auggie...I'm scared that this will be spun and turned into a positive for Palin. Fortunately, I think McCain is looking worse and the fact that he really needed to win that first debate and didnt will hopefully sway the undecided once and for all.
...but I've learned not to be too optimistic.
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#14re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha JoAurnalism with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 10:32amI didn't think you were surprised by anything people swallowed.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#15re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha JoAurnalism with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 10:34am
When she initially starts talking, McCain looks like he is dying to shut her up.
And yes, five weeks is a lifetime in politics but....wow, I really haven't seen a trainwreck like this in some time.
#16re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha JoAurnalism with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 10:34am
I knew that wouldnt get past the sensors.
I really love the term "gotcha journalism" as much as "fuzzy math"...which is NOT AT ALL!
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#17re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha JoAurnalism with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 10:40amAnd yeah, the pizza place comment is...quirky.
#18re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha JoAurnalism with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 10:43amI assume that is where the Pakistan question was "thrown" at her by a constituent...implying that she shouldnt be asked to answer questions with garlic around.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#19re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha JoAurnalism with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 10:46am
She'll be the Cliff's Notes VP!
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#20re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha JoAurnalism with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 10:48amBut isn't she HOT?
#21re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha JoAurnalism with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 11:00am
She needs garlic after that witch cleansing ritual?!
See, that's what they do, they give you once exorcism for free, then they hook you for life!
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#22re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha JoAurnalism with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 11:03am
I am mesmerized by the way Sarah and Gimpy spend the whole time whining about the treatment (with G looking alternately embarrassed and enraged) of Palin and then when Couric asks Palin what she has learned Palin says, "That it IS all about gotcha journalism... but that's okay."
Which is it guysss and galsss? Horrible/unfair or okay?
I get the feeling Sarah's nastiest crony politics Yahoo email accounts ended with lines like:
Fire that sunuvabitch. 
#23re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha JoAurnalism with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 11:05amShe can always get a copy of Exorcising to the Oldies.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#24re: McCain and Sarah Palin Argue Gotcha JoAurnalism with Katie Couric
Posted: 9/30/08 at 11:22am
Her answers become even more painful when you read the transcripts.
"We have trade missions back and forth. We-- we do-- it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where-- where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is-- from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to-- to our state."
It is from Alaska that we send those out? Send what out?
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