Sarah Palin Interview with Katie Couric

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[quote]Mick28 wrote:
jsbrook wrote:

It doesn’t MATTER. Both sides are receiving EQUAL treatment. The ‘mainstream liberal media’ has handled Palin and McCain with kid gloves, with the exception of the Gibson interview.

Reread that idiot.

Reads like this:

Not one person was shot with the exception of that guy lying in the street bleeding.

ONLY the Gibson interview? IS THAT ALL?

I hope no one actually pays you to be this stupid.

And you still have not answered the original question.

But…I didn’t expect that you would.

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No, moron. It reads: 1. ONE asshole treated Palin unfairly. 2. ONE dick has treated OBAMA unfairly. 3. The rest of the ‘mainstream liberal media’ has been throwing BOTH campaigns softballs. As far as the original question, I have no idea. Maybe the media will grill Obama and Biden when it decides to grill McCain and Palin.

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I’m still not clear on how O’reilly treated Obama unfairly. It seemed incredibly friendly and respectful, to me anyway.

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[quote]katzenjammer wrote:
jsbrook, what about the O’reilly interview bothered you? I thought he was remarkably accommodating to Obama, though I’m willing to be convinced otherwise. It actually reminded me of the katie interviews of Palin. [/quote]

O’Reilly interrupted the guy at every turn. Half the time he didn’t let him speak. It’s one thing to follow-up and to expose canned answers and spin. But let the guy make his case at least. Geez. O’Relly is just a shitty interviewer, though. He always wants to be heard and insert his own feelings into the interview. He did it more this time. But it’s par for the course with him. He does it even when he likes the interviewee.

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[quote]katzenjammer wrote:
I’m still not clear on how O’reilly treated Obama unfairly. It seemed incredibly friendly and respectful, to me anyway. [/quote]

Hey, I don’t know what happened to my post about the interview. Must be a delay. I’ll repost if it doesn’t show up

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[quote]Mick28 wrote:
jsbrook wrote:
Mick28 wrote:
jsbrook wrote:

It doesn’t MATTER. Both sides are receiving EQUAL treatment. The ‘mainstream liberal media’ has handled Palin and McCain with kid gloves, with the exception of the Gibson interview.

Reread that idiot.

Reads like this:

Not one person was shot with the exception of that guy lying in the street bleeding.

ONLY the Gibson interview? IS THAT ALL?

I hope no one actually pays you to be this stupid.

And you still have not answered the original question.

But…I didn’t expect that you would.

No, moron. It reads: 1. ONE asshole treated Palin unfairly. 2. ONE dick has treated OBAMA unfairly. 3. The rest of the ‘mainstream liberal media’ has been throwing BOTH campaigns softballs.

OPEN YOUR EYES.

Palin was attacked from DAY ONE. Shall we recount all of the crap that she’s had thrown at her beginning with that attack on her pregnant daughter right up to today’s attack regarding an extra marital affair.

How about Letterman jumping all over McCain the other night. And from day one he’s had jokes about her being inexperienced…like obama’s 143 days in the Senate means shit.

Let’s not even talk about John (I’m a total mouth piece for the democratic party) stewart.

We can also move to all the slanted stories on the big three networks…not to mention MSNBC.

Look it’s okay to be a liberal. It’s NOT OKAY to be a lying sack of shit liberal…sooooo KNOCK IT OFF.

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PLEASE. The scrutiny she’s faced regarding her daughter is no less or more than any candidate’s faced in the wake of a scandal over the last several hundred years. In fact, much of the ‘mainstream liberal media’ has praised her ‘courage’ and handling of the situation. The only real heat she’s taken over that has been from the TABLOIDS.

McCain cancelled on Letterman at the last minute, claiming he had to deal with the financial crisis. Fine. But he STILL went on to interview with Couric. Letterman was pissed. It’s a free country. No partisian bias there. And he’s not a journalist. Which brings me my next point, your statement about John Stewart which has relevance to absolutely nothing.

John Stewart is a COMEDIAN. As he’s stated, his show runs on Comedy central and his followed by a show about a talking dog puppet who sniffs his own ass. He’s not a newscaster. And he’s never made a secret of his political allegiances. There’s nothing in his job description that calls for him to be unbiased. And he’s never pretended to be.

I’m not even a liberal. I’m just tired of arch-conservative bullshit.

Lying sacks of shit suck. So, stop being one.

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[quote]jsbrook wrote:
katzenjammer wrote:
jsbrook, what about the O’reilly interview bothered you? I thought he was remarkably accommodating to Obama, though I’m willing to be convinced otherwise. It actually reminded me of the katie interviews of Palin.

O’Reilly interrupted the guy at every turn. Half the time he didn’t let him speak. It’s one thing to follow-up and to expose canned answers and spin. But let the guy make his case at least. Geez. O’Relly is just a shitty interviewer, though. He always wants to be heard and insert his own feelings into the interview. He did it more this time. But it’s par for the course with him. He does it even when he likes the interviewee.[/quote]

Exactly. He may be a shitty interviewer (all these people are imo), but he’s equally hard on his interviewees, no matter who is in front of him.

Now consider the difference between how Gibson interviewed Obama versus Palin.

That’s incredibly unfair. Not to mentioned the questionable journalistic ethics involved.

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[quote]Mick28 wrote:
The front cover of US magazine was certainly fair and balanced huh? HUH?[/quote]

TABLOID. Are you next going to complain about Palin’s treatment by the Star, featured right next to story about the Godzilla sigthing in Northern California?

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[quote]katzenjammer wrote:
jsbrook wrote:
katzenjammer wrote:
jsbrook, what about the O’reilly interview bothered you? I thought he was remarkably accommodating to Obama, though I’m willing to be convinced otherwise. It actually reminded me of the katie interviews of Palin.

O’Reilly interrupted the guy at every turn. Half the time he didn’t let him speak. It’s one thing to follow-up and to expose canned answers and spin. But let the guy make his case at least. Geez. O’Relly is just a shitty interviewer, though. He always wants to be heard and insert his own feelings into the interview. He did it more this time. But it’s par for the course with him. He does it even when he likes the interviewee.

Exactly. He may be a shitty interviewer (all these people are imo), but he’s equally hard on his interviewees, no matter who is in front of him.

Now consider the difference between how Gibson interviewed Obama versus Palin.

That’s incredibly unfair. Not to mentioned the questionable journalistic ethics involved. [/quote]

Fair enough. Gibson was unfair. Maybe O’Reilly wasn’t. But he was a shitty enough journalist that he presented a misleading and unfair impression of Obama. But he was worse than usual too. I think he knew what he was doing. His interview of McCain was basically free of interrutpion. I also have to think it must have been a little intentional malicious nastiness to schedule the interview during RNC primetime.

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[quote]Headhunter wrote:
rainjack wrote:
jsbrook wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
It is obvious she is not a typical politician with a bullshit nonanswer to every question all ready to go.

Cmon, Zap. I usually respect what you say. It makes sense whether I agree with it or not. But not this time. Almost ALL her answers are bullshit nonanswers.

How is that different from ANY politician? I watched the interview, and at the very least she does not have a speech impediment like Opie does without a teleprompter, and is far more at ease in a far more hostile environment than Opie has ever been since he decided to run for President.

You are looking for substantive answers from Palin, but allow Opie the retard to stammer and stutter through every single scriptless situation he has been in.

Where are your critiques of Opie?

Why the double standard?

I think they are terrified of Palin, not because of what they perceive has her ineptitude, but because of her philosophic principles. The woman is an old-fashioned conservative and these values might light a fire with the American people. Her philosophy might just crush them, and they know it.

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WRONG. I actually like many of her principles though I disagree with some of her social policies. But she needs to come back 20 years from now after she’s educated herself on the economy and foreing policy.

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[quote]Mick28 wrote:
jsbrook wrote:
Mick28 wrote:
The front cover of US magazine was certainly fair and balanced huh? HUH?

TABLOID. Are you next going to complain about Palin’s treatment by the Star, featured right next to story about the Godzilla sigthing in Northern California?

It’s one more liberal rag idiot.

Are the NYT, TIME and Newsweek tabloids too?

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No. And Time and Newsweek have unquestionably been fair. The NYT is a little dicier but it’s still been fair. Somehow, syncophants want to overlook any criticisms of Obama the paper has made. Like the July piece the New York Times ran about how Obama is ‘new and not improved.’ It also criticized his energy plan. Criticized his health care plan. I could go on.

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