Actually, I have – you just choose to completely discount everything Palin says and therefore don’t accept it as evidence. How else could I show it?
How could he see “inside the family” Palin’s greed causing her to resign, when he was no longer “inside the family” months before she decided to resign?
So which do you believe? If it wasn’t her motive for quitting, then gonzomax’s summary is wrong. If it was, then I’m asking how is it “greed?”
The Charlie Gibson interview was the SECOND time she went with “I can see Russia” line. It was actually something she was first quoted as having said on the day of her selection. Gibson was asking her to expand on the line. That wasn’t the origin of it.
The HuffPo piece is tongue in cheek.
Huh. I thought what we’d been arguing about wasn’t whether it was reasonable for Palin to fly under the circumstances she did, but whether Dopers took similar positions to Shayna’s back when Babygate was initially being debated:
Have we established that a goodly number of Dopers did indeed take similar positions to that of Shayna? I’ve already linked to where I did.
Is there anyone who really believes she said she could see Russia from her house? That’s what parodies are supposed to do: make politicians look foolish for laughs. Frankly, Tina Fey let her off easy with that one. The later sketch, where she simply repeated everything Palin said verbatim, was much meaner.
Was I not paying attention to unsubstantiated rumors doing election season? No, not really.
He never claimed to have heard her say that was her reason for resigning. He said he thought it MIGHT have been because he had often heard her talking about how nice the money would be.
I have no idea what her motive was. Personally, I think it was at least partly because she couldn’t stand being stuck in Alaska and missing out on all the media attention. The money still would have come eventually if she’d waited out her term.
If she did just quit for money, then of course it’s greed. It’s not for a “job.” She is not, and never could be an “author.” Somebody else will write her book. It’s not like she’d be actually doing any work. She’d be abandoning her committment to her state purely for a payoff. How is that not greedy?
Ooooh, now I get to do it.
Cite?
And this is a good-faith request: I never heard that line before the Gibson interview. It may turn out that I wasn’t paying attention!!
Yes, I’ll certainly allow that Shayna stuck in my mind to the extent that other people taking the same position seem to have been forgotten. My bad.
"They’re our next door neighbors. And you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska. "
I really don’t mind if she decides to capitalize on her 15 minutes and take the money and run. A valid and understandable choice even if she is breaking her promise to AL. by not completing her term. The unfortunate part is her continued involvement in the political arena and any further political goals that may be revealed in time. Perhaps she only wants to keep her hand in a PAC to keep generating cash.
Oh, wait, you wanted the Couric interview:
That is from the Gibson interview. We’re looking for the quote being attributed to her prior to 09/11/08.
ETA: Never mind.
One job for another?? She held elective office . She owed those who voted for her to do the job. She did not quit as a Wal-mart greeter. She let down a lot of Alaskans and conservatives across America.
Of course you are one of the “greed is good’ types, since you find it as defining. Are you suggesting that her greed at quitting as Gov. is completely understandable if she can make more money? Do you think she had no responsibility to the voters of Alaska ? She claimed to be the one who should run and save Alaska. Now she says” fuck that ,i got a payday ahead of me".
I would stick with the “owe the voters” argument if I were you. [del]Rational self-interest[/del] Greed is the linchpin of our economy.
The earliest I can find the Alaska-Russia thing is John McCain saying it to Charlie Gibson on September 3. I could swear that I remember it coming out of the McCain-Palin campaign on the day of her selection, but it’s possible I’m misremembering something that happened a few days later. I don’t think McCain was the originator of the claim that Alaka’s proximity to Russia gave Sarah Palin foreign policy cred, but I can at least prove it predated Sarah Palin’s own interview with Gibson on 9/12/08.
The line actually seems to have started on 8/29/08 with Steve Doocy of … wait for it … Fox News (Surprise!).
Cindy McCain and Jonah Goldberg picked it up and it spread from there - even into Palin’s own head.
How about “This Time Let’s Take out IRAN!” ?
Bricker: How about responding to my post #161 in this thread?
thanks
I think the story that the Palins are divorcing is possible and completely unscandalous if true.
I thought the story that she was Trig’s grandmother was possible and completely unscandalous if true.
I thought the story that she flew home after complications while carrying a high-risk baby were completely scandalous if true.
At this point, I don’t even know what the fight is over in this thread.