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Here she comes again--another Palin interview
- Jan 9, 2009 at 5:53 PM
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This morning while I was getting my girls ready for school, I saw a clip of the newest Palin interview, by a fellow conservative by the name of Ziegler. You can watch it on YouTube-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrAKmHgKLsM. He is preparing to sell a DVD about how the mainstream media has destroyed opportunities for brilliant conservative politicians like, well, Sarah Palin. In the clips of those interviews, we get to hear from her own highly glossed lips, just what really ruined her run for the office of VP. We've been hearing this for some time now, but she has found a sympathetic "journalist" who is willing to tell her story with no bias. Really. She was unfairly and brutally abused by the media.
In this interview, she blames everyone but herself for losing the campaign. Everyone from Katie Couric to Tina Fey to "anonymous bloggers". At no time does she appear to consider that it might be her own shortcomings that contributed to the McCain/Palin defeat. It was the McCain camp for insisting on the Couric interviews. It was Couric for asking leading questions such as what newspapers does she read. It was Tina Fey for the role she played on SNL. It was bloggers for spreading lies about her (never mind that all the candidates were subject to bloggers' liberties with the truth). It was the gullible Americans who were willing to believe whatever "news" they were fed. And now, she wants to use Caroline Kennedy as a litmus test for media fairness. If she perceives that Kennedy is treated differently, it will prove to her that the media just hates conservative hockey moms.
Poor, poor Sarah. I could cry for how grievously she was mistreated by the Mainstream Media. While all other candidates, or any one else in the public eye, are obviously treated with utmost kindness and respect, poor little Sarah was maligned. She was set up. It was grossly unfair of Couric, for example, to actually ask Sarah questions during the interview. That was just wrong. Does Couric ask other people questions during their interviews? What? She does? Oh, well then. . . how dare Tina Fey satirize Palin--and on SNL of all places? What does she think she is. . .a comedian? Oh. She is? Huh. Well, they still had no right to pick on Sarah. I mean, she is a mom. A hockey mom. An honest to goodness, former PTA president, gun packin', "g" droppin', good ole middle class hockey mom. She should have been off limits. Never mind that she was running for the second highest office in the land. No one had any right to ask her questions, or to treat her like a candidate.
In all honesty, I am embarassed for that woman. She just can't accept defeat, and certainly not with any grace as her running mate did. I was in no way fond of Senator McCain, but I did admire the way he conceded to Obama in the end. She opines about the lack of honesty and integrity in politics and the media coverage thereof, conveniently forgetting her own lapses in those areas (ie, accusing Obama of being a terrorist). She also seems to forget her own little lies and discrepancies--does the "Bridge to Nowhere" mean anything to you, Sarah? She distributed oil windfalls to Alaskan residents, which naturally raised her popularity in that population, and used that as leverage to basically rape the Alaskan wilderness. Somehow, that translated into her being an "energy expert" who is wildly popular with her constituents. Let's not forget how Alaska's proximity to Russian borders also made her a foreign policy expert. She still buys into her own lies. She actually claims that if she had been the Democratic running mate that the media would have loved her! And then she hints that she is still considering running again in 2012. Yikes!
With regard to Caroline Kennedy, why is she putting the focus on her? That is utterly ridiculous. Kennedy is running for a Senate seat (one of hundreds), not for a shot as the VP (one and only). Senate races rarely get the same kind of attention as do national races. Even so, Kennedy is not immune to unflattering reports, either. Palin needs to look at how all the candidates were treated during the presidential campaign--from the primaries to the actual election. There she would see that all were under the same scrutiny. Has she forgotten the harsh criticisms Clinton received? If she would take a moment to get off her self-centered little world (and that makes her comment about Couric especially funny) she would see that Obama is still being scrutinized--the supposed question about his birth-country having just recently been officially settled--and that all the candidates were under a microscope.
I could go on and on about that ridiculous little interview. It would appear that while the rest of the country has moved on, she just can't get over herself. She so obviously wants to be kept in the public eye--I think she has an ego the size of her state, and an IQ the size of the town where she spent time as a mayor. We really dodged a bullet when she lost the election. I hope she keeps talking, because the more she says, the deeper she digs the grave for her next bid for the White House.
The thing that perplexes me, though, is that some people are still sympathetic toward her. Can anyone explain that to me? I just read a poll that showed a majority of people (not by a large margin, but still. . .) who think that Palin was treated unfairly by the media, and that overall she has a high approval rating. Were these people even listening to her talk? Granted, it was just one poll, and probably not the most scientific, but it is still unnerving to think that anyone could see her as anything more than comedic fodder.
Comments:
Wow, Katie, I can't believe that you'd actually quote a guy that makes dear, dear Sarah shriek upon viewing his picture. Don't you know that that man is evil? Sarah said so, so it must be true! And logically speaking, if you like him, then you must be evil, too. I really should block you from my journal. Your evilness might be contagious.
Actually, I kind of like that quote. It's so. . .inarguable.
Hahaha yeah I saw last night when she called him evil. He seemed to get quite a kick out of it. LOL. I was telling my husband that I don't remember any other election past where the losing candidate wouldn't just GO AWAY. And essentially it's not even really the losing candidate because as I said you don't see McCain going around making a stink to anyone who will listen...
LOL. It's so true. What makes this even more pathetic, though, is that she's out there crying "sexism", but try to picture McCain or any other candidate doing what she is. Sadly, the truth is that you wouldn't see a male candidate going on and on about how unfair the media is. If one did, it would become the biggest running joke. Yet there is Palin, months after the election, still whining about it, and still being given air time to do it. That seems pretty sexist to me!
No matter how badly the media talked about her it isn't anywhere to how insulting they were to President Obama. Cry a river already. I have seen similar temper tantrums from my 3 year old, even she gives up eventually though.
The "tube" says it's no longer availabe :o(
Try this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-95wkCMeUkk
It's still there, I just checked, but the URL is different from when I wrote my journal.
CCmom05, Palin can throw tantrums to rival those of a three year old, and I'll add that she seems to have the same logic and reasoning abilities of that age group as well ;-).
You know I didn't like her policies when she was McCain's running mate but I still had some respect for her. McCain lost the election and Palin had a shot at a Senate Seat and a chance to prove she was capable of being in the U.S Government but she turned it down. Now she's accusing others for HER downfalls? Give me a break!
Why is it that the most unintelligible people constantly feel the need to show everyone how intelligent they are?
Poor Sarah, she's really a genius underneath it all ya know... I mean the woman can wink like no body's business. Imagine how many brain cells have to work together at one time to accomplish that type of rapid winking. We obviously just missed her genius because of the media. Shame on them!
That lady is a joke!! She was a gimmick when McCain chose her for his running mate and now she's just old news. Someone should tell her her 10 minutes are up.
I still have yet to figure out why McCain chose her as his V.P. With all the truly intelligent women in this country, why Palin? It doesn't make sense.
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Isn't it just EMBARASSING? You don't see McCain on every channel blubbering like a sore loser and pointing fingers at people. The only answer I can think of to your question, to quote my main man Keith Olbermann..."People who like that sort of thing...probably like that sort of thing." LOL. Unfortunately there are probably some people in our country who can relate to someone who seems like they have the equivalent of a 5th grade education.
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