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The McCain campaign has graciously decided to bestow upon ABC the first interview with She Who Must Be Deferred To :
Republican vice presidential running mate Sarah Palin is offering her first televised interview to ABC News in the coming week in Alaska. Palin, the surprise pick of Republican presidential nominee John McCain, has been giving campaign speeches alongside the Arizona senator since the GOP convention but has not sat down for an interview about her views.
A McCain-Palin adviser says an interview was offered to ABC’s Charlie Gibson several days ago and that they expect it to happen in the latter part of the week in Alaska.
Since Charlie Gibson spent nineteen years chatting with the likes of Celine Dion and Suzanne Somers ("You look great. So tell me about the success of your ThighMaster") on Good Morning America, Palin should be in good, but gentle loving hands. The mystery will be whether Gibson will, as David Brooks insists he has has done in the past:
…make politicians uncomfortable, to explore evasions, contradictions and vulnerabilities.
And if he does, will Palin suddenly excuse herself, go pick up Baby Trig, plop him in her lap, and deploy him as her Shield Against Attacks Against Sarah and Motherhood By The Mean-dia.
It’s a fairly naked ploy, but then the right-wing mainly thinks of Plalin in terms of "naked" in the first place so no one should feel compelled to avert their eyes….
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I’m so glad the right thinks we should elect an “everywoman” hockey Mom as vice-president instead of an accomplished/learned/experienced professional
I’m certain that Afghanistan, Taliban, Russia, Al Qaeda, North Korea, Hizballah, Georgia, HAMAS, Dufar, ETA, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Iran and all the other hot spots/war zones/terrorist organizations will do exactly the same.
Maybe as part of the interview Sarah and Charlie and Bobbie Flay could make Moose Kabobs or something. Now that’s Journalism.
Well If Charlie is as deferential with Caribou Barbie as he was with Obama in the Philadelphia debate with HRC, she’ll be left a puddle of wolverine fat. But somehow I think Charlies agenda is to prop this harpy up and endear himself with the powers that run the universe.
I remember the audience wasn’t too impressed with Charlie’s performance that night either:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7WaoarLZHc
I think there were multiple times that night where you could hear the city of brotherly love get all red-headed stepchild on Charlie’s ass.
Doesn’t seem to have effected Charlie or his partner in slime that night Geo Snuffalupagus however. Snuffy was apparently right back at it with his Obama interrogation this AM. Understandable, since a few hecklers are nuthin compared to the BigMoney stringpullers who orchestrate all this nonsense, and gives these clowns their all-
excessaccess passes to the best cocktail weenie shindigs.You can be sure she won’t be placed under the same kind of scrutiny as Obama!
I hope easy-going Charlie asks Palin about the company name she reserved, “Rouge Cou”, that sounds so dirty. Oh wait it’s French for “Redneck”. French?
That’s Just What I Said
After asking the Democratic candidates if they would “pledge” to reduce (!REDUCE!!!!) capital gains taxes, as his first “question” in the “debate,” why would you expect Charlie Worthless Gibson to ask Palin anything except, “Governor, why are you so awesome?”
The Spouse christened him George “Stupidopoulos” during the Clinton administration. I’m afraid the name has stuck around our house.
Sarah the Chosen One will display discreet but well defined décolletage & the by now trademarked tooth-filled grinner. The earthbound Charlie will slobberingly adore at the shrine of her voluptuous…somethingorother. Wake me later this month if anything important or revealing happens.
Paging Amy Goodman for a real interview (I know, I dream).
Once again, I find myself wishing I still believed in God, so I could believe there’s a Hell.
I’d settle for a quiet no-bullshit hour with Bill Moyers. But I bet that would burn her flesh like a silver Crucifix.
McCain plus Gibson and Palin…
Two Fools and Sister Sarah?
Marie, I believe the SWAT team in Minneapolis dealt with the threat of an Amy Goodman interview in that manly, constitutional and currently very popular way: with a drawn gun and a big army boot.
Meanwhile, “make politicians uncomfortable, to explore evasions, contradictions and vulnerabilities” just opens up a vast tundra of possibilities:
CHARLIE: “So, Sarah, you told me before the cameras started rolling that you’d always wanted to do it with a celebrity in the back seat of a snowmobile. You couldn’t have meant Sambo Obama, but can I perhaps take you up on the offer?”
SARAH: “What are you talking about?!?”
CHARLIE: “C’mon, darling, don’t be coy now, we all know how you and the ‘First Dude’ got together — it’d be fun.”
SARAH: “I’m armed, you know…”
CHARLIE: “– And, yet, so vulnerable. I like that in a woman. We’ll be right back to talk about your predilection for big, furry mammals…”
Gibson has already ruled out asking her anything the least bit probing, keeping up his reputation and competition with King for softball interviews with mindless questions.
Note that Twit Palin takes no questions from voters or the media and I expect that to continue as she tries to run out the clock.
The McCain campaign has done their best to derail and stall the investigation and if Alaska’s Senate Judiciary Committee had a brain they would have already gone to court to get an order to stop her lawyer from taking his own unlilateral depositions. Interviewing witnesses from the other side is one thing–unilateral depositions are quite another.
Gibson does exactly what Glenn Greenwald predicted he would do
MSM is one big wussie conglomerate; expect nothing from them as to Twit Palin
There have been and will be a lot of elaborate analyses of the next 57 days or so, and all kinds of complicated formulae as to how Palen will fare, including many analogies to Rick Perlstein’s book, Nixonland, released in May. but the basic pattern is much the same. Republicans have won all but 3 elections in the years since many readers here have been of age by waging a cultural referendum, and this time, racial bigotry will be part of it writ large.
As Robert Gibbs pointed out on CNN yesterday, Palen is more like Bush than McCain, and former Bush speechwriter Frum drew analogies to Palen and Bush.
Palin: Bush in Lipstick
My brother always refers to George as “that weasel”, for writing that book trashing Bubba for lying to him about Monica.
I bet that Sean insanityhannity went berserk when he heard that he was not the chosen one. Can you imagine the hissy fit he threw, sitting there with his chapped lips from all the conservative ass he’s kissed over the years? He probably unloaded big time on Fox Noise contributor/secret McSame Campaign Dirty Tricks’ Advisor Karl Rove. When Karl said “STFU Sean or I’ll kill you”, the tantrum ended. Make that “I’ll have you killed”. The doughboy doesn’t engage in hand-to-hand.
It’s worse — she’s so obviously not “everywoman,” because she so clearly thinks she’s hot shit. She _radiates_ prima donna and bully at the same time. It really gets under my skin. You can see why the wingnut legions love her so much: Coulter, Malkin, Palin.
“And if he does, will Palin suddenly excuse herself, go pick up Baby Trig, plop him in her lap, and deploy him as her Shield Against Attacks Against Sarah and Motherhood By The Mean-dia.”
What makes you think she won’t have Trig on her lap from the start?
My guess is Gibson will uphold the lofty standards of American journalism and get the bottom of the mystery about Sarah’s beauty pageant career.
It’s funny you should post a picture of Luanne and Peggy. Palin’s voice reminds me of Luanne’s beauty school teacher.
Sister Sarah: A vindictive, vicious, morally loose woman hiding in the skirts of Jeezus.
Perfect.