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.
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.
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).
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…
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.