Well, she's got the platitudes down. The comprehension, not so much.
Man, this is painful.
Sadly, the repetition of these platitudes is likely enough to pass most voter's muster, but if you really know the subject, these answers are disasters on some really basic stuff.
(AP Headline: Palin tries to defend qualifications in interview)
Later: I also want to make the point that these stumbles are on basic and expected questions. It's not like he was asking her about Taiwan, or South Korea's sunshine policy, or the India nuclear deal, or Kosovar independence, or the implications of a friendlier Russia and China relationship.
This was basic and anticipated stuff from the headlines.
Sadly, the repetition of these platitudes is likely enough to pass most voter's muster, but if you really know the subject, these answers are disasters on some really basic stuff.
(AP Headline: Palin tries to defend qualifications in interview)
Later: I also want to make the point that these stumbles are on basic and expected questions. It's not like he was asking her about Taiwan, or South Korea's sunshine policy, or the India nuclear deal, or Kosovar independence, or the implications of a friendlier Russia and China relationship.
This was basic and anticipated stuff from the headlines.
posted by mikevotes at
8:30 PM
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I'm flippin' irate about this! This is completely unacceptable. I can just about take someone I disagree with, but this woman is clueless. This is the height of irresponsibility. Country First my ass.
Obama needs to show what Arianna calls 'righteous rage' that we are feeling. Enough!
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zen, at 9:16 PM
I think the tide is slowly turning. The McCain campaign tactics are beginning to generate a neutral media blowback, and there's no way anyone who knows this stuff can look past this interview.
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mikevotes, at 9:28 PM
They just led off with this on the local NBC news and they had it packaged together to make her look like a moron.
Best quote?
"Sarah Palin sat down for her first national media interview today other than a previous talk with People magazine..."
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Anonymous, at 10:08 PM
LOLOL! This woman wouldn't know the Rose Revolution from plastic floral arrangements. I wonder how she was able to name it without looking at a 3x5 card. They must've given the campaign a list of questions in advance and denied her food until she got the talking points right.
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MarcLord, at 11:07 PM
Jeff, my favorite quote so far from the NYTimes TV critic,
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Mr. Gibson, who sat back in his chair, impatiently wriggling his foot, had the skeptical, annoyed tone of a university president who agrees to interview the daughter of a trustee but doesn’t believe she merits admission.
"
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Marc, and it's not like they asked her about "second tier" issues like Taiwan or or South America or South Korea's Sunshine Policy.
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The thing is, those who "love her" will look past this, but the impact on the media narrative could be pretty significant, and that may affect the middle a bit.
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mikevotes, at 6:15 AM
Those who love her would love her even as she kills their kittens and sells their children into slavery.
I'm wondering, however, if this interview (sequence of interviews?) will mark the point at which Palin recedes to below the fold as a political issue.
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-epm, at 8:54 AM
I don't know. I don't have a sense of it. The Obama camp would be happy if that happened, so they may let her sink instead of keeping he in the news.
The biggest thing is that it may affect the coverage of her and McCain.
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mikevotes, at 9:53 AM
As McCain has to go out and defend her and the things she'll say (has said), he begins to look like a fool. It diminishes a presidential candidate when he defers to, or defends, his own VP's comment. Especially on those issues where the two have historically differed.
I think it's a looser issue for the Obama campaign to even acknowledge Sarah Palin. And for the most part I think the two Dems, Obama and Biden, have only given perfunctory attention to Palin herself. Let the media and the 3 or 4 journalists left in this country, do the exposé on here lies and shallow grasp of current events.
This campaign is all about the issues and McCain's complete lack of credibility on them.
Nixon picked Agnew -- with a Palin-like resume -- and won. GHWB picked J. Danforth Quayle, and won. The VP is not the issue... even as shockingly bizzare as the Palin pick is.
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-epm, at 10:04 AM
Yeah, that's the narrative drag. First she was a crazy choice, then she was a great choice, now...?
And frankly on this issue, I think the Obama campaign does better playing to the media and taking the secondary effects than they do going after her and taking blowback. (Also gets around the whole sexism thing.)
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mikevotes, at 11:59 AM
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