Since I botched the quote so badly, the source (and the inherent sarcasm of it) prolly failed to register. The actual quote is:
And another quote seems to always apply when talking about Tea Party types (and conservatives in general, IMO):
Pigasus is a band here in Las Vegas, and AFAIK they aren’t going to run for office in 2012. They’d have told me.
Her latest gem in a Hannity interview:
Me have communications degree: me so happy!
No Palin supporter is going to have the Chutzpah to reply to your plea.
Couric was actually quite easy on Palin. She had opportunity to rub Palin’s nose in her idiocy, but passed. I think maybe her maternal kicked in, I dunno.
Maybe she simply let Palin do herself in, which Palin made a good job of.
Excerpts don’t do the interview justice. You gotta watch the whole thing.
Why SP would bring the thing up on her own I don’t understand. Did Hannity draw it out of her?
Hey cool!
I was thinking of this guy.
Yeah, but he was bacon 4 decades ago. Unless maybe you mean <gasp> Zombie Pigasus!
Better band name.
Besides, the Yippies’ pig was “the Immortal Pigasus.” May his porky goodness sizzle eternally.
To be fair, it’s not like Curic’s interview was really that good, but it was far from ‘gotcha ya’ journalism. ‘Which newspapers and magazines do you read?’ It’s kind of a bush-league question. However, an intelligent responder would have said something like, “I keep abreast of all the financial periodicals, and I try to read a cross-section of national papers when I can,” … or one might have gone hard-ass with, “I don’t really think that’s relevant as I engender my opinions through consul with my advisors,” or some bullshit like that.
But … “oh, you now, all of them …”
Palin has only herself to blame as coming off like a rube, and I’m sure Curic’s most oft floated thought on the whole matter is something like, “What? What the fuck did I do?”
Why is the Republican Party doing this to Sarah Palin?
What are they doing to her?
They’re still bitter about the failure of The Half-Hour News Hour and trying to find the right mix of easy-on-the-eyes political commentary and comedic criticism. Much of the laughs Palin generates from her loyal audiences follow rather vapid jokes about liberals along the lines of “they’re talking crazy talk, it don’t make no sense to normal folk like us.” Trouble is, that kind of humour is self-defeating, along the lines of endlessly talking about how hard it is to program a VCR. After a while, the target of the ridicule isn’t the VCR manufacturer for making the process difficult, but on the comedian himself who’s too dumb to figure it out. If the comedian’s bit is self-deprecation it can work very well but even then, not forever.
Adlai was governor of Illinois. His grandfather ran for VP. His family was well known in political circles. He was a well spoken and esteemed intellectual. He was not unknown at all. His campaign was the first one I ever worked on. I was a kid and carried canisters around the neighborhood . People would put coins in the slot and I would give them a collar pin.
Even as a kid I was sure people would vote for the smart person over the grinning war hero. i have always overestimated the voters.
Exactly.
One thing that sort of annoys me about the whole thing is that, in some circles, it seemed to get Katie Couric a reputation as a hard-hitting political interviewer. Give me a break! She lobbed a bunch of softballs in, and Palin whiffed on just about every one.
Indeed. If Palin can’t handle Katie Couric, how will she deal with Vladimir Putin?
Well, she’s got her eye on him right now.
I know you said “in some circles,” but the sense I had at the time was, especially after the Charles Gibson interview, Palin and gang were already running away from the press and because Couric was seen as being especially nice to McCain and was said to like him, her handlers thought she’d get softball questions (which she did) and naturally knock 'em out of the park.
I thought everybody knew from the beginning Couric’s interview as going to be as close to T-Ball for Adults as you could get.
Encouraging her.
I want to state, categorically and for the record, that I am firmly opposed to any rumor-mongering about Trigger Palin being Vladimir Putin’s love child.
He does look pretty fit, doesn’t he. I mean, considering.