# Ladies & gentlemen, your future vice president! (Palin interview by Katie Couric) **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 25, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174 "2008-09-25T17:05:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/181 "2008-09-28T02:09:25Z")
> [@RedFury](#): > > I actually had the same reaction to that piece of utter nonsense as Cafferty does here (posted mine upthread): > > [**Jack Cafferty Tells Us How He Really Feels About Sarah Palin**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8__aXxXPVc) All Palin is selling is culture. John McCain at least gives off a glimmering hope that he’ll be a different kind of Republican when it comes to foreign policy. No one really thinks he is as incompetent as Bush. Palin might possibly be more incompetent than Bush and her economic policies have been proven disasters. That is two out of three debate subjects that she is deficient in. All Palin has left is culture. Social conservatism. That means no stem cell research, no over the counter morning-after-pill, no abortions (even when you’re raped), no sex education, and no gun control. These are the things that are apparently more important to some people than a competent leader and a good economy. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/182 "2008-09-29T18:00:55Z")
If you didn’t see the SNL skit about the Palin-Couric interview,[here it is](http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/couric-palin-open/704042/). The best part, when Tina Fey’s Palin answers the question about the bailout using Palin’s exact own words. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/183 "2008-09-29T18:04:29Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > If you didn’t see the SNL skit about the Palin-Couric interview,[here it is](http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/couric-palin-open/704042/). > > The best part, when Tina Fey’s Palin answers the question about the bailout using Palin’s exact own words. Now, it wasn’t verbatim, exactly. The SNL writers did inject a line or two into the middle of it (the “because, you know, Obama” and the finger to the wind, for example). But most of that passage did indeed come straight from her answer to that question in the actual interview. And of course, Amy Poehler’s Couric is never going to be as good as Gilda’s Baba Wawa, but I absolutely loved the blinking and the look of “WTF?”, which are also from the actual interview, if not as pronounced. ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/184 "2008-09-29T18:07:15Z")
> [@RedFury](#): > > I actually had the same reaction to that piece of utter nonsense as Cafferty does here (posted mine upthread): > > [**Jack Cafferty Tells Us How He Really Feels About Sarah Palin**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8__aXxXPVc) Wow…At least Cafferty was honest. and right. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/185 "2008-09-29T18:12:05Z")
> [@Jolly\_Roger](#): > > Wow…At least Cafferty was honest. > > and right. Amen. I generally like Jack Cafferty (and even the major areas in which I disagree with him are really more a matter of quantity than quality), and he’s been one of the more outspoken media opponents of the Bush administration, after having swallowed the Iraq debacle hook, line and sinker. He did eventually realize we’d been had on that one and it only made him more angry at the government. He’s a good man and may just be the major conscience of cable news (along with Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow). ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/186 "2008-09-29T18:14:37Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > Where did she think he’d end up? Rammstein, Germany? Why du you hast America? ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/187 "2008-09-29T18:23:52Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Why du you hast America? Warum Sie Amerika hassen? I like honest, sensible people. I support Obama–that doesn’t mean I think the sun shines out his ass. I loathe Bush and Co, but think he was right about the ports. I respect Cafferty even though I don’t agree with him on some stuff. I wish the right would stop trying to turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse and claiming it was never a sow’s ear. Lipstick won’t help that… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/188 "2008-10-03T16:25:34Z")
Since I haven’t seen this mentioned elsewhere: > [@mack](#): > > Anyway, what I got out of it was that if you’re not careful, you can be led into saying something you really didn’t intend on saying, on camera, in front of everybody, for posterity. You can’t just go along with whatever the interviewer is saying or else you’ll get screwed. Even with Frodo’s little snippet you can see Couric putting a word (“Mock?”) in Palin’s mouth and Palin goes along with it and ends up looking like a fool. She needs to not let people do that if she’s going be any good at this. My WAG on this is that Palin was trying to say “caricature”, got stuck on the word and Couric offered a shorter alternative to move the sentence along. Whether Couric did this with the intent to make Palin look stupid (“caricature” is such a _big_ word), I dunno, but that’s my thought. In the light of the entire rest of the interview it’s pretty much a non-issue anyway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174.md?page=9)