Why is Couric asking Palin about all of McCains legislation? Why not ask McCain if she wants details? Obviously it was just another wasted interview with a partisan hack trying to play "gotcha". An easier question she could have posed to Governor Palin was: "Obama has been in the Senate less than two years, can you name some of his accomplishments?" Answer: "There are none."
In part II, Couric continues to push Governor Palin as though she were a representative of the State Department. Nobody in their right mind expects a Governor to be a national policy wonk. People do have a right to expect her to have a sound overall philosophy, and she does present that well.
The constant hounding about details wasn't all bad, but to waste an entire interview on these questions was inappropriate for a Vice Presidential candidate. It is inappropriate to constantly ask candidates to "arm-chair Quarterback" every move made by President Bush. Hind-sight is always 20/20, but it is ridiculous on its face that so many detailed questions on foreign policy keep getting handed to Governor Palin. She is NOT the one to make policy, that falls to the President, and it will be her responsibility as Vice-President to support the policies and views of the President as he makes them. Thus, there were WAY too many questions about Bush Administration policies in the past. Pick, pick, pick... Couric just keeps throwing them out like a softball pitching machine (example Rush used today.) Hammering the foreign policy stuff instead of asking her reasonable questions about her experience and her life so American's can get to know her better.
Couric interview rating: Hostile
Got to love the way Couric can't hold her head up straight. She's got this silly lean to one side and squinting her eyes, the posture of being incredulous. You can see Governor Palin trying to make eye-to-eye contact... having to lean her head a bit to match Courics strange posture. I am getting to the point of just being angry that these so-called journalists cannot just give a reasonable interview. I feel badly for Gov. Palin that we can't get any modicum of respect from these entrenched neo-commies who pretend to be 'unbiased'.
Well said. If Katie had been wearing glasses, they would have been right down there at the end of her nose.
I also noticed several abrupt edits that cut off Sarah’s answers - thus, of course, skewing her words to whatever the CBS editors want to make them (not that CBS would EVER think of being biased before an election...).
All that said, I thought Palin did fine - particularly at the end of part 2, where she hammered in the point that we’re on the side of the good guys... a statement that no-doubt repulses the whore media.