Yet Another Gruesome Palin Interview Yet To Come?
Uh oh. It looks like the ongoing horror movie series otherwise known as the Katie Couric-Sarah Palin interviews may be about to offer up yet another gristly installment.
The other day, Politico's Jonathan Martin quoted an anonymous Palin aide who was worried about still-undisclosed interview footage in which Palin noted Roe vs. Wade but was unable to reference or discuss any other major court cases.
"There was no verbal fumbling with this particular question as there was with some others, the aide said, but rather silence," Martin wrote.
That was an anonymous account. And CBS News has refused to publicly confirm it. But a few moments ago, CBS News released the text of a couple questions (but not the answers) that Palin has been asked on interview footage that's set to air tonight. And sure enough, one of them is...
Why do you think Roe v. Wade is a good or bad decision? What other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with?
Dum. Da Dum, Dum. Viewers with weak stomachs, consider yourselves warned...
It's gonna be so much fun tonight! Thursday should be highly entertaining as well... I just wish this was all an episode of some bad TV show instead of reality(tm).
October 1, 2008 11:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
I am beginning to think that this is all a cooked up deal to increase ratings for Couric and to decrease expectations for Palin.
People that fall for that stuff deserve to have the Chimp and Joe Six Pack running the show.
October 1, 2008 11:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
The Couric interview may have lowered expecations for the veep debate, but there's no way it was intentional. Palin's embarrassing performance has already cost McCain millions of votes he couldn't afford to lose.
October 1, 2008 12:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
But expectations are of course irrelevant, since the question is whether she is fit to be President in February? No?
October 1, 2008 12:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do everyone a favor, beginning with yourself: give up the "expectations" cliche. It is nothing more than a fabrication with which to fill otherwise-empty airtime with emptiness intended to keep the horserace anxiety high.
It has no meaning and no merit. No one is going to watch Palin piss her pants and then say, "Gee, I feel so bad for her that I'm gonna vote for her."
October 2, 2008 1:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR MCCAIN!!!
October 1, 2008 11:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
That is so comforting... coming from you.
October 1, 2008 11:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
I agree. So good to see this!!
October 1, 2008 11:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
There's nothing else quite like an idiotic post to settle the nerves.
October 1, 2008 12:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
sweet jesus....cbs has given us some great food for thought here to see Palin as a true six pack Joe! Will the rest of America see it as well?
October 1, 2008 11:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
It took a lot of six packs to put the pounds on that Avatar. So here is the interview question I want asked: "Governor Palin, what was your reaction to Senator McCain when he told you that, as his running mate, you would have to go down and meet his frined, Mr. Bono?"
October 1, 2008 1:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
I fucking LOVE how they're releasing this shit out a little every day.
October 1, 2008 11:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, it's the dream scenario, isn't it? Wow! Sara explains the Supreme Court to us!
October 1, 2008 11:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
My Pet Oaf.
October 1, 2008 11:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
TheraP!
I need a new keyboard because of you. I laughed so uncontrollable that I knocked my coffee over. My Pet Oaf. Sums up so much of the GOP leadership.
October 1, 2008 1:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well who could stand to watch it all at once? In little bites like this, its like "Tales from the Crypt" type horror; funny and entertaining in a cringe-inducing, lowbrow kind of way. In one big dose, however, it would be like "I Spit on Your Grave" close your eyes and stop up your ears until the urge to vomit subsides type of horror show.
October 1, 2008 11:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder how much Katie drank after these interviews? Had it been me, I'd just be pulling myself up off the floor...
PEACE
October 1, 2008 11:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
You're right, she's full of awkward, cringe-inducing moments. Maybe the writers from The Office should consider casting her.
She could play Jan's sister!
October 1, 2008 11:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ifill: Ms. Palin, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I've ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response was there anything that could even be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
October 1, 2008 11:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
I predict that Fox news will try to hire her as a commentator.
October 1, 2008 12:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who, Palin or the woman Imus called the Times' cleaning lady?
October 1, 2008 1:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ain't payback grand?
Remember 4 years ago how the Republicans forced CBS to sacrifice Dan Rather and the credibility of their news division?
I wonder what professional linkages, if any, there are between the producers of these interviews and the producers of the Bush National Guard stories?
October 1, 2008 12:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
A very interesting question, which I have not seen raised until now.
October 1, 2008 12:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
The right is too busy attacking Gwen Ifill in advance of that debate to get into the inner sanctum of CBS.
October 1, 2008 1:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
See, Joe Sixpack doesn't know any Supreme Court cases beyond Rose V. Wade. He knows cases of MGD, Bud Light, and Miller, and that's what matters when your economy is being shit down the toilet in front of your eyes. And really, I know that's the person I want running my country. Just like I want an uninformed fucking dipshit to operate on my heart as well. Who wants an elitist who has studied, and gone to to good schools, and has been forced to, you know, LEARN STUFF? THat shit is for nerds.
Jeff Foxworthy/Larry the Cable Guy '08!!!!
October 1, 2008 11:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm looking for Larry the Cable Guy to come out and say "This lady scares the bejeezus out me. I have to vote for Obama and Biden."
October 1, 2008 11:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
Aww, now that's just being mean to Jeff Foxworthy (Larry the Cable Guy, however, is on his own).
October 1, 2008 11:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry, he's just the first thing that came to mind in the "average guy" mold. Everybody Loves Raymond guy, then?
October 1, 2008 11:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe Ron White/Jeff Foxworthy '08?
October 1, 2008 1:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm appalled by the Palin nomination on substantive grounds alone.
But these interviews infuriate me. She is an incurious rightwing ideologue who will attempt to jam her disastrous views on the rest of the country. She appears not to realize just how dangerously uninformed she actually is, and it doesn't seem that she would even care.
HOW DARE JOHN MCCAIN DO THIS TO THE COUNTRY?
October 1, 2008 11:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
And how does that "Country First" shit work again?
October 1, 2008 11:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's payback - for the 5 years he spent as a POW.
It was our fault. And we're gonna pay!
October 1, 2008 11:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Payback. That's interesting. I, however, think that the focus of the payback must be the Republican Party. It seems at times that the McCain/Palin ticket wants to lose, and lose big. All the better to stick it to the party that boned McCain so badly eight years ago. YMMV.
October 1, 2008 12:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's a suicide bomber politically. I agree. Either way you play it, he's destructive.
October 1, 2008 12:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Palin and McCain figure these interviews were good preparation for the debate and that while 50M+ will watch the debate, a mere fraction of that will see the Couric piece(s).
It would have been so much better had Palin been caught with this question at the debate.
October 1, 2008 11:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
No need to get greedy, Jonze. Everybody can read about the Supreme Court moment from now until curtain time on Thursday. There's plenty of moose dung to go around!
October 1, 2008 11:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
The man who debated Sarah Palin more than two dozen times, explains why Biden will have his hands full.
Palin does great in debates, and she has done plenty of them.
Read all about it:
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/10/the-man-who-has-debated-palin.php
October 1, 2008 11:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
But the format tomorrow is not a debate, it's an interview.
And if Palin opens the door to a true debate, and Ifill allows it, she's going to fall, hard and fast.
PEACE
October 1, 2008 11:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
No followups, baby. No followups -- they are kryptonite to her.
October 2, 2008 2:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
Alaska ag, huh? That's the best you got?
Alright I give up with you.
You're right, then. I heard a story that when she was much younger she whupped Martin Luther King in a debate. It's not that well known, but she prepared John Roberts for his Supreme Court appointment hearings. And that guy Sarkozy? Don't even *ask* me how she learned French, I ain't goin' there!
October 1, 2008 11:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
I read the excerpt, will go back and read the whole thing. But the entire premise is deeply flawed. This is not Alaska, and Joe Biden is not Professor Beeblebumthwacker who spouts facts and figures in an attempt to get the audience to see the iron clad logic of the matter. He's the guy who came up with the line: "A noun a verb and 9-11". He's the guy who tells stories about his dad who calls him "champ". (get up champ get up champ)He's the guy who lived through legislating the violence against women act, not as an abstract exercise in logic, but as a public response to a emotional and serious issue. I think she is going to have a hard time looking more authentic than Biden.
That's Palin's problem, platitudes take you only so far. Attitude and affect only take you so far. At some point, you have to back it up. She has no depth of understanding at a deadly serious time in our history.
I expect that she will come armed with plenty of insults and zingers and hope that throws Biden off balance and that he'll have to waste time defending himself.
October 1, 2008 12:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yup. You right. Reminds me of "Meet John Doe". Palin winds up a know nothing "heellot", which was Walter Brennan's catchall for "a whole lot of heels".
October 1, 2008 12:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
There's no way Biden can be thrown off balance. Unless she flubs up so badly, he - and the audience - crack up!
October 1, 2008 12:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree with you, liam. I think Palin is going to surprise a lot of people tomorrow night, and McCain's numbers will start going up slightly. It's to dems detriment to underestimate Palin.
October 1, 2008 12:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tina Fey
Will find a way!
October 1, 2008 12:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can't wait to see SNL. They just do a 1 hour show. They have so much materials
- I would start 6000 years where men and dinosaurs coexisted
- The newspaper question
- Roe versus wave
- The joe six pack interview
- The troopergate...
So far so my favorite is the newspaper...
October 1, 2008 11:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
I hope, but doubt, that Gwen Ifill will use the VP candidates recent media comments in a line of questioning. That may hurt Biden, too, which is only fair, but will doubly hurt Palin.
I, for one, have watched most of her prior debate performances and, in an effort to lower expectations, am fully prepared that she will hold her own or be considered the winner of the debate.
I take nothing for granted. Every day is the first day of the campaign. Nothing said yesterday will matter. We need to fight harder every day no matter what the polls or the media say, on either side of the political spectrum.
October 1, 2008 11:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
She'll be charming and articulately incoherent, and thus, the headlines Friday will be "Palin wows at debate". You can make book on it.
October 1, 2008 11:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Charming? I don't know. I expect her to be in full attack mode.
October 1, 2008 11:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's because you, hyperRevue, live in the reality based community.
The media?
Not so much. Even if she attacks, she'll be described as "spirited", "a different person than the one in the Couric interviews", a person in touch with the lives of average Americans...blah, blah, blah.
The bar has been set so low that she only need to walk and chew gum simultaneously for the media to have a positive impression.
October 1, 2008 11:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, this is what I've been thinking. Even if she goes on the attack and Biden swats most of it aside, she'll get credit for standing firm or being brave enough to go toe-to-toe with him.
October 1, 2008 12:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
The media elite just hate the idea of Joe six-pack as a US Supreme Court Justice.
October 1, 2008 11:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
We already experimented with the concept of a joe-six-pack in high office. I remember in 2000 people sort of agreed the Dubya was not smart enough but voted for him anyway because they thought "he can't possibly run the country to the ground". Eight years later we are in a fight for our livelihood and even for our soul as a people.
October 1, 2008 11:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
And nearly had one in Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court.... How's that workin' out?
October 1, 2008 12:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think it's dangerous to confuse ignorance for a lack of intelligence. George Bush sets records for arrogance, myopia and laziness, but I honestly don't believe he's unintelligent.
It would be a mistake to assume that Sara Palin's prideful ignorance is a sign of stupidity. She's ambitious but inexperienced with the attention of a national audience -- give her time, and I'm sure she'll learn to play the game very well.
October 1, 2008 12:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
IQ, average at BEST - in my professional opinion.
October 1, 2008 12:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
I personally think that the Supreme Court should review Marbury v. Madison.
October 1, 2008 11:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's like an intellectual mobius strip, what you did just there. You blew my mind, baby.
October 1, 2008 11:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'll settle for revisiting Bush v. Gore.
October 1, 2008 1:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
So good.
Anybody else in favor of Katie Couric hosting the debate?
October 1, 2008 11:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
She's earned it!
October 1, 2008 11:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe her and CBS not getting one of the debates is behind her being a real journalist in these interviews.
October 1, 2008 11:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
I don't think she is making a special effort to be a real journalist its just Palin is not making a special effort to be a real VP candidate.
October 1, 2008 11:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Okay, Princess Wasilla, our nation's greatest energy expert, doesn't recall the case involving, ya know, her state and Exxon?
And how about the partial-birth abortion case from just last year? Um, wasn't that, ya know, a major victory for Ms. Prolife, also?
PEACE
October 1, 2008 11:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Anyone know the format of the debate or the topic. I'm guessing the topic is everything since it is the only VP debate. This could mean she can get by with her non-answers because there will be no time for deeper probing where talking points and memorization cannot help.
October 1, 2008 11:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
The McCain camp insisted on an interview-style format, not a true debate. But I doubt Princess Wasilla has the self-control to adhere to that format. She believes herself to be smarter and spunkier than most anyone, and she won't be able to refrain from jumping in and directly debating Joe.
And she'd better watch out...
I hope Ifill lets it happen!
PEACE
October 1, 2008 11:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
There is good indication that she has the appetite for "taking on" Biden directly as evidenced by the age comment she keeps repeating- "hearing his speeches since I was in second grade". If she does she is screwed because this time people expect more substance than pitbulls and lipstick wise cracks.
October 1, 2008 11:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
That is exactly my expectation!
October 1, 2008 12:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
No rules on subjects to be covered. My understanding is that each candidate will get 90s to answer a question and then there is a 2 minute period of discussion.
October 1, 2008 11:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
So she can do well by keeping a low profile with her non-answers. She should do this.
October 1, 2008 11:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Just watch. On the questions where Joe goes first, she'll have better answers. Because Joe's comments will give her a clue. But when she has to answer first.... it's gonna be a crap-shoot that only mcGambler could love.
October 1, 2008 12:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Huh, did not think of this. She might even gain points by doing an Obama-like "I agree with Joe" or "Joe is absolutely right" and proceed with her none answer filler.
October 1, 2008 12:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ok. That takes care of half the answers.... but it's gonna look pretty suspicious when she meanders first, followed by Joe being on target.
October 1, 2008 12:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ya, she's done for it. She would have to hit it way out of the park to overcome her bad impression
October 1, 2008 1:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, if McCain is running on the strategy that has succeeded for the last 8 years -- "Do whatever infuriates liberals" -- he seems to be following the playbook pretty well.
October 1, 2008 11:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
It worked in kinda funny way, though, in 2006, no? Or you don't remember?
October 1, 2008 11:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hahahaha!
Someone has been listening to me - that's my mantra - we fucking won in '06, big.
And yes it did too count - don't give me that off-year election crap = we threw the incumbents out all over the country.
October 1, 2008 11:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
I remember Bush railing in Montana right at the end, doing his tent-revival act, that the Democrats were acting like they were "measuring the drapes!", so his party would show them a thing or two. And that insufferable Elizabeth Dole, she infuriated people in 2006 both houses got lost and now she's going to lose her own seat too! So, uh, the rule has exceptions I guess!
October 1, 2008 11:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Look, kids, let's not get overexcited here.
Anyone smart enough to position herself, in a move reminiscent of the doctrine of transubtantiation, as both G. Harrold Carswell and Roman Hruska in her assessment of why she, Joe Six-Pack, should be VP, is smart enough to debate Joe Biden, the orator she recalls so fondly from reading about in all sources, any sources put in front of her, a vast variety of sources, then, in second grade, 1972.
I trust I was not too obscure.
October 1, 2008 11:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
In all seriousness, what are the odds of Palin watching the Delaware senatorial campaign (Biden's first) in 1972? Are we really to believe that the Delaware senate debates, for example, were telecast on the national networks and thus viewable in Wasilla, Alaska, and that she, a second grade student, was riveted by them? Can someone in big media not call her on this drivel? It is an outright lie and everyone knows it.
October 1, 2008 11:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
She says to get Biden worked up for the debates. It will not work as Biden is on guard for non-issue miscellanea.
October 1, 2008 12:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey she got his age wrong too.
Biden's 66, not 72, as she claimed.
But what's a little Freudian slip . . .
October 1, 2008 12:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why? It's so ridiculous on its face, Joe Sixpack is already calling bullshit.
October 1, 2008 12:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ok, well just like the leaking water and the flight back to Alaska, let's take her at her word. That suggests she was a very bright and engaged second grader and the obvious conclusion is that since then she has slowly been losing her mind. Marbles gone.. except a few Joe Biden speeches.
October 1, 2008 12:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, you are right on that one, she may be a able to take a rabbit out of her hat, but for now, I just want to enjoy another great moment of American politics...
On the other hand, while it is fun to watch, there should be an IQ test for the VP and President of the US.
This is a serious job, and we could end up with with an angry old man who is not fit mentally and who will push the nuclear button as he does please him, and a VP who is clueless...
October 1, 2008 11:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
"she may be a able to take a rabbit out of her hat"
That's more likely than her pulling an intelligent answer out of her ass.
October 1, 2008 11:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!!!
Co-sign!!!!
October 1, 2008 12:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
The McCain camp is totally using this woman and she either cant see it or refuses to see how damaging this is to her as a politician locally back in Alaska and nationally.
She has pissed of the Dems and Repubs in Alaska plus there is growing dissent from the Alaskan public. There is a chance that she may not be reelected as Gov because of showing as McCain's VP.
Someone close too her needs to sit her down and show her the reality of her plight.
October 1, 2008 11:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
With obstruction of justice and witness tampering charges about to be added to the abuse of power investigation, I doubt she makes it through her first term without facing impeachment charges.
McStain used her, and in the process, has probably ended her career.
Perhaps she should have blinked.
PEACE
October 1, 2008 11:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
"Someone close too her needs to sit her down and show her the reality of her plight."
uhhhh... this lady packs gun!
October 1, 2008 12:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
She don't need no stinking Supreme Court.
October 1, 2008 11:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
You so funny Greg.
I'm beginning to develop quite the crush on Katie Couric and boy I never expected that!
October 1, 2008 11:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Seriouspost: Here's a recent (decided '07) SCOTUS case involving Alaska:
Exxon v. Baker
October 1, 2008 11:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
You spose they have tried to get her to follow the decisions leading to Roe? I'm personally just dying to hear her discuss Griswold v Connecticutt and then tie the whole thing together with Lawrence v Texas.
Yea right.
- LMAO!
October 1, 2008 11:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Gotcha. Lawrence was in Arabia, not Texas.
And the Griswold's were from Chicago, like Obambi, not Connecticutt like Loserman, I mean Joe Bipartiman.
October 1, 2008 1:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
True story.
Some rock-ribbed "Jesus is a Republican and so am I" know spent the last year talking about how much they disliked McCain and worried about his temper and were tempted to vote for Obama if he got the nomination. When Palin was picked, however, they became wildly enthusiastic about the Republican ticket.
As her stunning ignorance and incuriousity about things like, say, foreign affairs, economic policy, and so on came to light, their enthusiam was undimmed. They don't worry about McCain's age or health because whether McCain lives through is term is in God's hands (wink wink this may be God's way of getting a good Christian into the White House at last. They don't worry about Sarah's complete ignorance of anything other than the contents of the Wasilla library or how to squeeze more money out of oil companies and rape victims because, they say, she'll have advisors to help her along.
Got that? She'll have advisors. Her complete lack of any tools that would enable her to distinguish between good advice and bad or to envision potential consequences beyond those explained to her by her advisors is of no concern.
Oh, and Obama? They're now concerned about "what they don't know about him."
October 1, 2008 11:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well, that's odd. I had heard the Talebangelicals viewed Obama as just punishment for a nation of sinners, so they were okay with it. Hmmnmnnn.
October 1, 2008 11:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
That "They" would represent about 25% of the electorate.
We aren't going to have a 100% victory but I am not worried about the nuts in this country. There aren't enough of them to win this for McLame -Painful.
October 1, 2008 11:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Good God. Here's hoping this isn't contagious.
October 1, 2008 11:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sadly --- I believe it. Seeing the same thing or a milder variant ("I've admired John McCain for many, many years and he would never do anything that wasn't good for this country, so she must be okay.")
The big question: how large is the percentage of voters who are "willingly blind" in this fashion? ..... And/or: how many young people and typical non-voters can Obama and his campaign get to come to the polls? Because who don't want to see aren't ever going to.
October 1, 2008 12:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
my fave quote from the couric stuff: "I'm not going to solely blame all of man's activities on changes in climate."
October 1, 2008 11:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
What's weird is that she comes across as somewhat reasonable until you actually think about what she has just said . . . when you read a transcript it is horrifying.
October 1, 2008 12:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
OT: I love Nate Silver
The most critical point may be that the McCain campaign now faces something of a Hobson's choice. In terms of states where they had hoped to play offense, Michigan began to break away from them a week or so ago, and now Pennsylvania -- which had initially reacted well to Sarah Palin -- seems to be doing the same. But if all they're doing is playing defense, that gives Obama so many scratch-off tickets -- Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, and perhaps Indiana, Nevada, and Missouri -- that it's essentially inevitable that he'll get lucky in one or more of those states, several of which he already appears to have the lead in.
My gut instinct if I were the McCain campaign is that it might be time to pick one of Pennsylvania and Michigan -- whichever state my internals liked better -- and consolidate my offense there. McCain certainly can't be spending time in Iowa, where he spent much of yesterday, but where he has never led a single public poll against Obama.
October 1, 2008 11:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe she agrees with every decision the Supreme Court has made throughout history EXCEPT Roe v. Wade?
October 1, 2008 11:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
Better check on Brown v. Board of Education.
October 1, 2008 11:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, if she's against Brown v. Board of Ed and Dred Scott, that may make the wingnut base love her even more. (if that's possible)
October 1, 2008 12:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
She has read every decision that's in front of her. Alaska keeps up. They read Micro Cosmo up there too. Keep it next to the Cabela's catalogue.
October 1, 2008 1:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sarah Palin is a train wreck. I was infuriated when McCain picked her, but now he couldn't have done Dems a bigger favor. His options now are to dump her and watch his campaign nose dive or to keep her and watch his campaign nose dive. Its awesome.
Also, how awesome is CBS for dragging this interview out. There is so much good content and they let you analyze a little bit every day. If you notice Obam is up big in the big 3 battlgrounds (PA, FL, OH). If she keeps this up Obama may win Texas!!!!
Obam/ Biden '08
October 1, 2008 11:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
If asked about the Supreme Court in the debate, Palin will say she answers to a higher law, and all will be right in crazy world.
October 1, 2008 11:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
And here I've given Katie Couric a bad rap. I gotta cut her some slack since she's been giving us these precious Palin moments. SNL must be having a field day plagiarizing Palin's appearances for this week's Tina Fey segment.
October 1, 2008 11:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, my biggest problem with the interviews is letting go of my decades-long utter disrespect for Couric. How dare she call herself a journalist"?!
Even if she reverts directly back to Miss Giggle-Cute for the rest of her career, these interviews alone salvage her reputation.
October 1, 2008 12:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
She has obviously learned a lot. I haven't watched her since the Today Show, I will watch her evening show now out of curiosity.
October 1, 2008 12:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
One of the things that I'm watching for is how often they use the two-camera setup to cut to Couric's reaction while Palin is answering the questions.
I got a kick out of seeing Katie ask Palin about her "saw his speeches in second grade" jab at Biden. The lone cameraman initially was shooting from a spot in front of both women (a view that showed both in profile). But as Palin struggled and Katie's eyes went wide, the cameraman walked behind Couric, so that he/she could show Palin's full face from a behind the shoulder perspective. This also conveniently hid Katie's facial expressions during the response.
Because serious journalists are supposed to wait until after the interview is over to laugh at the stupidity.
October 1, 2008 11:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
I've been getting a huge kick out of Couric. She's digging this a lot. Her reactions are priceless.
October 1, 2008 12:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
I especially loved Couric's "but she was talking to a voter" comment! Right in McCain's face.
PEACE
October 1, 2008 12:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
America is such a rich country that it can afford dumb leaders, specially when their stupid-fuck-up mistakes are bailout by a servile legislators.
Fareed Zakaria will soon write a book title: The rise and fall of America; the redneck Empire
October 1, 2008 11:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
O give it a rest.
We are not a nation of rednecks and I'm sick of this stupid too easy throw-away excuse for everyone of our failures - Americans are stupid - no they aren't.
Goddamn it - who do suppose they polled for Bush's stunning 70% disapproval? Martians?
Knock it off.
There are rednecks here but that's not the whole picture - not even close.
October 1, 2008 12:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wait. She never heard of Brown v. Board of Ed, or Griswold v. Conn, or Bush v. Gore, or Croson, or Kelo, or Cruzan, or Casey, or Bakke...
October 1, 2008 12:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's heard of Track and Trigg and Willow and Dude.
October 1, 2008 1:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Honestly, I want to hear her explain how the SCOTUS used Interstate Commerce in Griswold. I'm just dying to.
She can then tie Brown to Griswold for us.
October 1, 2008 12:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Griswold - grizzly bear!
Brown - Bear!
There. Tied it tagetha foh ya!
October 1, 2008 12:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is not clear just how the questions were asked. Did Couric ask the Roe vs Wade question, wait for a response, and ask the follow up, which was met by silence?
Or---as I suspect from the way this is reported---did she ask both questions, and Palin answered the first question only, and waited for Couric to move on? That would not amount to much in the way of embarrassment.
October 1, 2008 12:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Of course - Palin was just all ready to give us a Law Review Article for an answer and Katie fucked it up.
Yeah.
Uh huh.
[shakes head]
October 1, 2008 12:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
CBS is doing a damn good job of milking this stuff for all it's worth. That being said, I don't think in the end that Palin will have turned out to be anything more than a sideshow to the main act. Here's why:
1. The economy. The GOP owns it.
2. People - most especially folks over 50 - are scared to death of what's coming down the pike in this economy. Any of us in that group, either remember or were born soon enough afterward, to have a good feel for the horror people experienced during the depression years.
3. Fear - it focuses the mind. People will vote for Obama, because the GOP in general and McCain in particular are not trustworthy when it comes to folks economic future. It will have very little to do with Palin, except insofar as things could go from very fucking bad under McCain to truly goddamned horrific under Palin.
October 1, 2008 12:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
You got it.
I know I'm scared. I really am. We've worked for almost 30 years and saved and saved for retirement and I really am scared.
October 1, 2008 12:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Between me and idiotic, your sanity it covered.
October 1, 2008 12:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let me tell you about our Lotto Ticket Plan for retirement some time.
October 1, 2008 12:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'd rec your comment if I could.
October 1, 2008 12:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
:) thanks.
October 1, 2008 12:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
When Sarah Palin says "Joe Six-Pack" she means "Joe The Weak-Minded, Ignorant, Neo-Brownshirt Dittohead Mental Slave of Rush Limbaugh".
October 1, 2008 12:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL
October 1, 2008 12:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
uhhhhh.... would that be my brother-in-law?
October 1, 2008 12:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
your sister's married to my brother?
October 1, 2008 12:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
well... he has no brothers. But... let's form a support group!
October 1, 2008 12:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tena
if you weren't a Democrat you would have being one terifiying wingnut.
strongly held view point, combined with a combative nature. a McCain twin (sorry.... sorry)
October 1, 2008 12:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well lucky for you I'm not.
I don't like intellectual laziness and that's lazy.
October 1, 2008 12:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Between me and idiotic, your sanity it covered.
October 1, 2008 12:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
That was meant for Tena.
October 1, 2008 12:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fine, keep these interviews coming. They aren't helping her base and they're alienating independents. Bravo.
McCain is making me miss Ron Paul: http://www.digitalfuntown.com/videos/104
October 1, 2008 12:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
But she read all newspapers!!!
October 1, 2008 12:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Whatever has been put in front of me all these years"...
What the hell does that even mean?
October 1, 2008 12:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
The fact that she didn't mention the Exxon Valdez decision is very telling.
October 1, 2008 12:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
She actually issued a statement decrying the court on that one.
October 1, 2008 1:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Of course how long can you focus on a drunk tanker captain when you have a drunk trooper to fire.
October 1, 2008 1:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Remember people, this debate will be all about healthcare reform and job creation and shoring up the economy and tax cuts and the umbrella of trade and job creation and one in 5 and fluffy membrane doorknob berjasd lsdfje efkje sfjke sefj....
October 1, 2008 12:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
When asked by Couric last night about her position on abortion in the case of rape and incest, Palin replied that she: "would counsel to choose life". Later, when asked by Couric about her position on the morning after pill, Palin replied: "I would not choose to participate in that kind of contraception". Given her advocacy of choice in both answers, I guess that puts her solidly in the pro-choice camp, right?
October 1, 2008 12:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
She gave the same response in the Alaska debates.
We need a follow-up:
October 1, 2008 1:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ohyeah.
I'm buying popcorn for tonight's viewing.
October 1, 2008 12:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Via TV Newser :
October 1, 2008 12:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
In all seriousness. Given how little she knows, how in the world could Palin have accepted the VP nomination? Does she really think she has what it takes to do the job? She has become a national, and proabably international laughing stock, and she put herself into this mess.
October 1, 2008 12:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Simple. She doesn't know the definition of hubris.
From Gibson's interview, asking her essentially the same question.
October 1, 2008 1:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
On the subject of Joe Six Packs supporting Obama, I was shocked to learn that country singer Toby Keith has come out in support of Barack. This is the guy who sang an apparently jingoistic anthem after 9-11.
October 1, 2008 1:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is just amazing. Even the average junior high school kid should at least be able to come up with Dred Scott or Miranda, for God's sake. Pathetic. Marbury v. Madison? Come ON, Sarah. Jeez, what a clueless, uneducated nitwit.
October 1, 2008 1:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
BPA,
It's the whole brains not required just lots of faith mentality that the conservative movement has coddled for the last 40 years. The end result was Bush and his administration. Palin is just a continuation of this.
I think it is the only thing that can truly bring America down as a world power, the embrace of theocracy and valuing people for what they believe and not what they do.
October 1, 2008 1:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Regarding NCSteve's comment above:
They believe Palin may be God's way of getting a good Christian in the white house? Wasn't Bush was also supposed to be God's way of getting a good Christian in the White House? Ask them, how has THAT worked out?
I have a theory that the Republican party is the party of zealots. Necons, supply-siders, anti-government Reaganists, evangelical Christians, zealots all. Do they actually have anything in common aside from their zealotry?
No amount of reasoning will alter their positions simply because reasoning was not employed in the formation of their positions. They have beliefs, not opinions. They could be too easily exploited for the rise of an American Authoritarian nightmare. It's damn scary.
October 1, 2008 1:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
He didn't say which country.
October 1, 2008 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Whoops, there it is:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/01/eveningnews/main4493062.shtml
Looking forward to video.
October 1, 2008 7:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dear God, this is worse yet: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/01/eveningnews/main4493077.shtml
October 1, 2008 7:21 PM | Reply | Permalink