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From News Anchor To Vice-Presidential Candidate (MSNBC Barf Alert)
MSNBC ^ | August 30, 2008 | Staff

Posted on 08/30/2008 10:38:39 AM PDT by library user

Interesting that MSNBC chooses to release this now. I think the idea is for people to watch this and ask themselves "this woman is fit to be one heartbeat away from the Presidency?"

But, of course, that was then (1988). And who wouldn't look like an amateur when delivering the news at the young age of 24?

BTW, there is no place which says this archival footage is from 1988 but the reason I know it's from early 1988 is because she's talking about NCAA basketball and Gregg Jefferies, whose first year in the majors wasn't until the Summer of 1987 (and her maiden name, Sarah Heath, is shown on the screen).

She married her husband a few months later.

You have to scroll down to see the video.


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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: 1988; msnbc; palin; sarahpalin; sports; sportscaster
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What do you think? MSNBC has an agenda here? I mean it's nice to see a young Sarah Palin and all, but I think the MSM is trying to say to America "hey folks, she's just a news anchor. She isn't qualified to be in the White House."

And why did they need to put the entire four minutes of her sports report on their home page? I could understand a 30-45 second clip, but four minutes?

1 posted on 08/30/2008 10:38:39 AM PDT by library user
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To: library user
Think its really gonna backfire on them. There was *another* sports announcer who, in a long and fulfilling life, ended up as President... One Ronald Wilson "Dutch" Reagan, as I recall...

the infowarrior

2 posted on 08/30/2008 10:42:05 AM PDT by infowarrior
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To: library user

After all the time they spent reporting on Obama’s radical associations, this only seems fair.


3 posted on 08/30/2008 10:43:17 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (18 million cracks in the highest, hardest glass ceiling in America from the impact of Hillary's face)
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To: library user
MSNBC has an agenda here?

Were you born yesterday?

4 posted on 08/30/2008 10:43:24 AM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: library user

See tag line


5 posted on 08/30/2008 10:43:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin (Palin is more qualified than Obama.)
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To: infowarrior

Did not know that. I just don’t understand why MSNBC felt the need to put the entire four minutes on their home page, for crying out loud. Anyone who watches that 1988 video can tell this is a young woman who recently graduated from college and is going to stumble a bit when delivering the news. If you ask me, MSNBC is trying to make her look like a fool. If they’re going to show four minutes of footage of her, why not have it be something more recent, where she is at her best?


6 posted on 08/30/2008 10:44:30 AM PDT by library user (What say you, Messiah?)
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To: library user
OUTSTANDING!

I was worried that cutbacks had forced MSNBC away from investigative reporting. Now that they scrounged up the funds to find 20 year old pics of Sarah Palin being gainfully employed in honest work, perhaps they could dig up some old snapshots of Barack Obama doing drugs, at the Million Man March, hanging out with Bill Ayers, or attending an anti-American Jeremiah Wright sermon.
7 posted on 08/30/2008 10:44:43 AM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (DRILL HERE. DRILL NOW. PAY LESS!)
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To: library user

Is MSNBC saying that news people aren’t smart enough to hold public office?


8 posted on 08/30/2008 10:44:46 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Islam: Imagine a clown car.........with guns.)
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To: library user

So what, so she was employed in the MSM that proves what exactly MSNBC?

WE should look instead at Keith Olbermann’s trannyformation from Sports Anchor to Shitehead!


9 posted on 08/30/2008 10:45:03 AM PDT by RadioCirca1970 (Welcome to the Terror Dome....)
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To: library user
I think the idea is for people to watch this and ask themselves "this woman is fit to be one heartbeat away from the Presidency?"

Why not? Full time-heretic/socialist Pelosi is now two-heart beats away.

Make that part-time, Congress is out on one of the many extended "breaks" they get every year...

10 posted on 08/30/2008 10:45:22 AM PDT by frogjerk (McCain - you did the right thing by selecting Palin as VP)
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To: library user

Good grief, as long as it’s not a sex tape everything will be fine.


11 posted on 08/30/2008 10:45:36 AM PDT by BGHater (Democracy is the road to socialism.)
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To: LdSentinal

LOL. Yeah, yeah, I should just assume they always have an agenda. I just wasn’t sure if it was only me who thinks it’s unfair they put this unedited video of her stumbling through the news on their home page. Seems only to be up in order to make her look bad.


12 posted on 08/30/2008 10:45:44 AM PDT by library user (What say you, Messiah?)
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MAIN STREAM MEDIA NOW TRYING TO USE THE HATRED FOR THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA TO BELITTLE PALIN!!

ROTFLOL..

There must be nothing they can find on her to smear...so they smear themselves in an effort to smear her!!

PRICELESS!!


13 posted on 08/30/2008 10:46:01 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: library user

This just gives Palin more exposure and shows how desperate PMSNBC is to go that far back. Why not show a video of a high school play or elementary school oral book report. Then they can say “from elementary school to VP....is she ready.” What a bunch of complete asses. This will backfire big time. Palin is a dynamic and compellinig public speaker that puts all three of the other candidates to shame.


14 posted on 08/30/2008 10:46:13 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (McCain/Palin v Obama Bin Biden.........thank you Lord, thank you thank you thank you.)
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To: infowarrior

You can see MSNBC’s point. If I had to watch that barking moonbat, Keith Olbermann, everyday, I’d conclude that no former sportscaster should ever be anywhere near public office.


15 posted on 08/30/2008 10:46:44 AM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (DRILL HERE. DRILL NOW. PAY LESS!)
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To: HerrBlucher

Not only is Palin a compellinig public speaker but she is also a compelling public speaker. Its good to be both.


16 posted on 08/30/2008 10:47:34 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (McCain/Palin v Obama Bin Biden.........thank you Lord, thank you thank you thank you.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

Ya good point. Doesn’t MSNBC and all news organizations pride themselves on bringing us the latest news, by the most knowledgeable people in the business???? So news people should be among the best qualified to be in public office.


17 posted on 08/30/2008 10:48:09 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: library user
What do you think? MSNBC has an agenda here?

Golly! Gee!

Mebbe PMSNBC just wants us to pay close attention to Sarah Palin's younger days.

Ya know, so we won't ask questions about NObama-lama-ding-dong's.

18 posted on 08/30/2008 10:48:36 AM PDT by woofer ('Senator Obama ain't run nothin' but his mouth' - Steyn)
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To: HerrBlucher

I saw one news website which had a picture of Sarah playing basketball in high school. They didn’t use a current photo, they used a high school basketball picture of her. Unbelievable.


19 posted on 08/30/2008 10:49:25 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: HerrBlucher
Not only is Palin a compellinig public speaker but she is also a compelling public speaker. Its good to be both.

Yes, but why doesn't MSNBC put out a four minute video of her at her best on their home page? Instead, they drag out a 20-year-old video of a barely-out-of-college Sarah Palin somewhat stumbling through her news report, in order to make her look dumb, IMO.

20 posted on 08/30/2008 10:49:32 AM PDT by library user (What say you, Messiah?)
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