You have got to be yanking my pud. The question was a high-arc, slow-pitch, soft-ball – hanging-curve-type. The way it was asked? What, you mean in English? It was a simple get-to-know you question and Palin responded like a deer in the headlights.
If you interpret that interaction as you’ve described above … you’re fucking hopeless.
So…do you think she would be a fine President?
Well, that is exactly how Sarah Palin interpreted it, after all. At least in retrospect.
When my eye doctor asks me if I look at a computer screen a lot, I interpret it as his accusing me of not having a job and being too poor to own a computer…doesn’t everybody?
I think some people are of the opinion that 18-year-olds can not be controlled with absolute certainty, and abstinence-only sex education should be dropped in recognition of that fact.
I agree with jack Batty, that was a softball question. What’s wrong with just answering it and moving along?
And so what were the hardball questions Palin was asked during the campaign?
If she wasn’t prepared to campaign for the vice presidency, do you think she was prepared to be the Vice President? She seemed to think so, and she seems to still think so. Everything that went wrong was either McCain’s fault, or her handlers, or the press. Like with Bush the Younger, I don’t get any sense of self-examination from her. The first step in gaining experience is admitting that you still have things left to learn.
So we have a person from well outside Washington, with a spotty academic record, who is not well known, and who has no experience in the Federal government. What a great question for her. She could have used it to show that just being from outside Washington does not make her uninformed. She could have knocked it out of the park:
“Well, Katy, I subscribe to The NY Times, Newsweek, and US News and World Report and I try and read them as much as I can given my busy schedule, but I also still read the Wasilla Tattler. I find that looking at the perspective of Main Street folk reminds me that government is of the people, and for the people. Not just the important people in the Capitol, but the people who teach our kids, and build our roads, and run the small businesses that create most of the jobs in this country.”
How is that a bitchy question? If somebody asks you about he weather, are they an asshole?
You’re fucking ridiculous. When I first read your posts in this thread I figured you were a December '09 join date troll, but nope, you’ve been around. Sure fooled me.
It was bad enough when the softball questioner Couric was accused of gotcha journalism for a simple and non political question. What she exposed is the bitch does not read. Then when Beck the guy who is famous for being tough on conservatives asked her another softball question she had no answer. She did not know who the founding fathers were. The half term governor has less intellectual curiosity than Bush. Perhaps we should call her the halfinator.
Not only that, but she lacks the mental horsepower to lie about that convincingly.
It doesn’t take much for even a non-reader to drag up a few names like ‘The Denver Post’ or ‘The Atlantic Monthly’, but she couldn’t do it.
To be fair to Sarah, she had to be at least as careful about not saying some well known publications, whether she reads them or not. Imagine if she spat out the New York Times or the Washginton Post!
OTOH, she could have said, “I’ll tell you what I DON’T read – the New York Times or the Washginton Post!”, and won the hearts of conservatives everywhere, and bought some time to think of something warm and fuzzy to conservatives, like Mein Kampf.
Let’s face it, she’s a loser.
If Palin’s supporters are still so outraged about the “what do you read” question, then I think it’s only fair that Barack Obama should be subjected to the same treatement. He should have to o on camera with Katie Couric, and she should ask him, straight up, right to his face, what he likes to read.
Dio, that’s a lovely sentiment, but we don’t have all night!
If you are running for the Presidency or VP position you should be able to give a pretty good summerary of the geo-political situation of the time and how the main players have interacted over the last few decades. You should understand the implications of the end of WWII, Cold War and many many other things.
You should also have a fair idea of how the economy works. These are the very minimum you need. Yes, you have advisors etc. for the details but you should be able to understand the big picture.
This bint was asked what she read and couldn’t answer it, FFS!
Asking Palin what she reads was not a softball question. It was a very hard question – so very hard that Palin could not come up with an answer.
Reading is harrrd.
It’s not her fault. The Witch-hunter at her church told her that if she reads while pregnant she’ll have an *Elitist *baby. In fact, for he last baby she made sure not to read anything at all, not food labels or even street signs… oh… wait…
And, as it turns out, that insinuation was perfectly correct.
So, what were the “hardball” questions? Something more like this?
RNATB, she truly said that???
Yep. The transcript is from here. I think this is video of it but I can’t hear sound 'cause I’m at work.
The audio for that Palin video was of Miss South Carolina. For the matched audio/video of Palin, try http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvzim5rCeFw&feature=fvw
Sad to say, the most articulate Palin videos are found on xvideos.
Respectfully, RNATB, does Crooks & Liars count as a reliable source? Does CNN have the same transcript or video?
A situational slam even on Ms Palin deserves to be checked against a reliable source.
Oh wait, this is the Pit, not an encyclopedia. Sourcing is not necessary.
Ms Palin and her political advisors may want to strongly consider keeping her gagged during all unscripted town hall meetings, interviews, and other public appearances.