Filed under: Election 2008, Sarah Palin | Tags: Election 2008, Sarah Palin, sickening
When asked what newspaper sources or magazines she had read to stay informed, Sarah Palin gave what could be the most elusive and vague answer I have seen in recent memory.
Couric: “What newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this, to stay informed? To understand the world…”
Palin: “I’ve read most of them, again, with a great appreciation for the press and the media coming..
Couric: “Like what ones specifically?”
Palin: “All of them, any of them that have been in front of me all these years. I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news… Alaska isn’t a foreign country; where it’s kind of suggested that–wow–how could you keep in touch with the rest of Washington DC may be thinking and doing when you live up there in Alaska. Alaska is a microcosm of America.”
After I picked up the brain matter that had tried to run away from this vacuous rambling, I reflected on what I just heard.
- Not being able to cite one source for your knowledge shows a lack of intelligence. I wonder if you just flipped through the paper to get to the comics and still can claim that as scanning the “Times?” It’s almost like watching comedy with the sound off, you probably missed something important.
- No one is suggesting that Alaskans can’t or don’t read the same news as everyone else, they are suggesting that you don’t read the same news that an elected official NEEDS to stay abreast of current events.
- Once again bringing up your self-imposed “alien nation” status of Alaska being like a “foreign country” to many Americans doesn’t relate to this question. In fact I can name several internationally created journals and newspapers that I read regularly to keep up with many views on the same subject. So does that mean I am being unAmerican or more inquisitive? I am feeling that I could debate Palin and come out looking like a seasoned Washington pro…
- Word of advice-when asked for specifics you can never answer in the same phrase or argument, “All of them and any of them.” This is a logical fallacy and, for lack of a better term, quite idiotic. If you can’t name one, just say it and appear like the Jane-Six-Pack you want to be. Those damn intellectuals with their books and reading and thinking. Jesus didn’t read, he fished.
Would someone in the McCain campaign stop her already. America might see this as the most intelligent executive decision you could make. Any boss that hired a worker to only find that instead of processing data they spend most days tasting the White Out, would probably find removing that employee a positive move.
Anyone else notice how uncomfortable Katie Couric looked during that answer? I could feel her brain going, “Say something. Please don’t nod and let her get away with this. Oh you’re nodding. Chalk one more up to cowardice. I wonder where Matt Lauer is now?”
Filed under: Election 2008, John McCain, Sarah Palin | Tags: Election 2008, John McCain, Sarah Palin, sickening
If you missed the original issue, look on YouTube for Palin and Cheesesteak. The real issue for me isn’t that her statement contradicts the McCain viewpoint on how to deal with terrorists, but rather that they have walked down another pathway to dementia.
Instead of admitting that Palin was being too general in her “strategy” the McCain campaign adds another “name” to the list of enemies on their political paranoia parchment. (ooo I love alliteration.) If it isn’t the liberal devils surfing the “Googles” then it’s those harsh media critics that stray from the preordained set of easy pitch questions packaged by the campaign.
To watch these two in action defending themselves against the journalistic skills of Katie Couric should send shivers down the spine of all Americans. If Palin can’t keep up with Couric, imagine what President Zidari must have thought. Kissinger probably wanted to bludgeon himself with a candelabra during their time at the UN. Come on, Kissinger has worked alongside some of the most influential world figures in our history. Mao Zhedong. Leonid Brezhnev. Now he can add Palin to that list.
Of course maybe McCain forgot what Kissinger once said about military men, you know, those “‘dumb, stupid animals to be used’ as pawns for foreign policy.”
So is it “gotcha” journalism that makes what she said less relevant or do we want to revisit the “gotcha” moment that made Obama less favorable with those bitter, gun toting Pennsylvanians? Probably not, because that was groundbreaking journalism or was it the same?
The amazing bravado of McCain and Palin to pretend to be on the same level as Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton, is sickening. I find it hard to take people seriously if they display such polar attitudes in such short spans of time. Watching Palin chuckle about the new term she adopted, “gotcha journalism”, and then put on her serious face to continue to show her disdain is mind-boggling.
On a side note, I am very tired of hearing this new “tactic” by McCain to criticize those who make statements about what should be done to fight and find the terrorists we face as enemies. His repeated line of, “you don’t announce that you are going to attack” seems to be right in line with the Bush doctrine doesn’t it? He doesn’t deny that he may attack Pakistan, he just wants to make sure it’s a surprise. I wonder what other terrorist harboring, freedom wanting, non-Democratic countries the McCain/Palin empire wants to liberate from the chains of oppression.
Oh, sorry. I shouldn’t have revealed that premade policy, kinda like that debate victory ad…
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