Sarah Palin is Suzanne Stone Moretto from To Die For.
That is all.
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Wow, I never thought much about Katie Couric one way or another, but that wasn’t bad. Wouldn’t it be great if the debate moderators showed their teeth too.
That is the angriest I have ever seen Couric look. And considering that most of her career was spent getting up at the ass-crack of dawn every morning to stand outside in the cold and interview tourists and members of boy bands, that’s saying a lot.
No one could be that unprepared and be serious about running for vp. I never thought anyone could make W look semi-intelligent but she is doing her best to do so. I am trying very hard to get my head wrapped around the idea of her as Pres.. This must be the real life version of ‘Being There’. How in gawd’s name do you end an interview with a major news figure like Couric and say: ‘I’ll get back to ya.’ after you just tried to maintain the point that McCain favors regs.?
I take back everything I ever said about Quayle. So sad.
Wow. She’s made both Gibson and Couric look like tough interviewers? You have to admit, that’s quite the accomplishment.
So far, in unscripted interviews, Palin has come across like a high school student who hasn’t done the required reading. She doesn’t even know enough to fake it convincingly. It’s just kind of sad at this point.
Unless of course she wins. Then it will be appalling.
Sarah Palin is Suzanne Stone Moretto from To Die For.
In what respect, Charlie?
“He recused himself” “No, he REcused himself”
It’s like she gets all excited when she discovers a fancy new word.
Yeah, but she’s properly deferential to the male authorities—it was always “Senator McCain’s policies” et cetera—and the conservatives, male and female alike, eat that shit up.
If you have any idea what the subjects she’s being asked are about, she sounds like a child parroting things its parents say. But if you’re clueless, she sounds alright.
She’s made both Gibson and Couric look like tough interviewers? You have to admit, that’s quite the accomplishment.
That’s just what I was thinking. If she were a performance artist I’d bow to her as a master.
Too bad this is real life and she’s getting about 45% of the vote to be our next President. That’s scary as hell.
““He recused himself” “No, he REcused himself”
It’s like she gets all excited when she discovers a fancy new word. “
you know i was just thinking how her use of recuse mirrors her use of ‘verbiage’ talking about mccain and fundamentals.
which is she spits out a sentence with a $.50 word early in it, then repeats it verbatim.
If I could stand listening to her for more than 20 seconds at a shot i’d be interested to see if thats a common pattern for her.
She ducked out of debate prep and has spent her time reading “How to Increase Your Word Power” in Reader’s Digest instead. After all, the two activities are equally fungible.
Can you imagine being Sarah Palin? First she has to cram like crazy to learn all these wacky foreign place names (Moe-zel. Kar-ball-ah. Tub-lee-see.), and now she has to learn about the financial markets? Crazy! (lik-wid-eh-tee, ree-kused).
Not that McCain’s doing much better, but he’s used to being befuddled on national television.
She has a few one-line talking points memorized, but has no idea what to do once she’s recited the talking point and Katie asks a follow up question.
I actually feel embarrassed for her.
Oh my GOD. That was truly awful.
“I’ll try to find some examples and I’ll bring ‘em to ya!” ... in other words, “I am in over my head.”
Does she seriously think, after everything Obama’s proposed and discussed during the last week that he’s the one seeing the way the political wind’s blowing?
It’s no wonder they don’t let her out much.
I get the feeling she thinks Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are people: “With John McCain’s warnings to Fannie and Freddie…”
She makes it sound like they’re two naughty kids who’ve been put in time-out.
Perhaps people are waiting on McCain to say what he will do…because so far he hasn’t actually said anything yet.
Perhaps people are waiting on McCain to say what he will do…because so far he hasn’t actually said anything yet.
Except that he’s not going to say anything about it, and Obama shouldn’t either.
Not only does this video show how the standards for politicians have fallen but also how journalist standards have fallen as well.
Neither woman could think on her feet.
The only time Palen came out of her fog was when she was able to bulldog snarl against Obama. With a vicious little twinkle in her eye a and smarmy little finger wave she went from vague double talker to a focused demigogue. This woman is not stupid, she is dangerous.
And Couric only follows the question, answer, rinse and repeat. No stepping away from format. There was no calling out or following leads or questioning errors in Palin’s many gaffes.
Two people were a disgrace in this video not just one.
I don’t know, Melponeme_k, I was under the impression that folks being interviewed get to see and APPROVE the questions they get asked beforehands. So Couric doesn’t really have the “authority” to just go off the cuff.
I hope I’m wrong. Maybe that’s only the policy for talk shows and not hard-hitting news.
Anyone know the question-asking procedure for news shows vs. chat shows? Didn’t we have a libertarian last week with his own newsroom?
“You know, I’m not lookin’ at poll numbers…”
...or facts, or truth, or anything but the inside of McCain’s ass. Oh John, I think it’s time for your yearly!
Somebody needs to distill these interviews into a “Sarah Palin Interview Generator”. You ask it a question, and it spools up a talking point or big word of the day.
It could be somewhat rigged to look for question context, but slight mismatches would be more hillarious than non-sequiturs.
“Somebody needs to distill these interviews into a “Sarah Palin Interview Generator”. You ask it a question, and it spools up a talking point or big word of the day.”
In the same vein, would Sarah Palin herself pass the Turing test?
“In the same vein, would Sarah Palin herself pass the Turing test?”
Probably not. Frankly, ELIZA can sound more real…
Captain Bathrobe is right; she just did the classic, college student “I don’t know what I’m talking about so I’ll turn the example you just used around to make some other point.” That’s something you pull out when you can’t quite remember your Shakespearian criticism, not when you’re discussing the state of the economy, especially if your a politician who’s running to have a large part in decisions about the economy.
Captain Bathrobe is right
Ah, the most beautiful words in the English language!
Thanks! 
Gee. why did they ever want to keep her away from the media?
I’m amazed that Couris didn’t just start screaming at her while they were walking, “WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? YOU ARE MAKING NO SENSE.” It must be very weird to be in that situation. It’s obvious that Couric knew the questions to asked and kept asking them to a degree, but you do kind of wonder why she didn’t keep pushing on some of the non-answers. I suppose it wouldn’t have been prudent to push Palin to the point where she threw off her mic and ran away like she was being ambushed by 60 Minutes. Then again, that would have been fun to see.
“In the same vein, would Sarah Palin herself pass the Turing test?”
Probably not. Frankly, ELIZA can sound more real…
Shaney V Palin says:
He’s also known as the governor of this state that produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy, that I do bring to this table, Charlie, and that’s the beauty of American elections, of course, and democracy, is with new leadership, and that’s with the energy independence that I’ve been working on for these years as the governor of this state that produces nearly 20 percent of the leadership qualities and the pragmatism that’s needed at a crisis time like this.
But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are hell bent on destroying our nation.
There’s a good song at the end of that flick