Posted on 09/12/2008 9:24:43 AM PDT by NewMediaFan
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- There were no surprises, no knockout zingers, but also no bloopers Thursday night in Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's first TV interview since becoming the Republican vice presidential nominee.
Charles Gibson of ABC News was out for blood and inherently applied a double-standard compared with the kid gloves George Stephanopoulos used on Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois on Sunday night.
Gibson was out to embarrass Palin and expose her presumed ignorance from the word go. By contrast, when Obama referred to his "Muslim faith" on Sunday and did not correct himself, Stephanopoulos rushed in at once to help him and emphasize that the senator had really meant to say his Christian faith.
By contrast, Gibson tried to embarrass Palin by referring to her Christian faith in asking people to pray for U.S. soldiers in Iraq. Palin countered by pointing out she was following the precedent set by Abraham Lincoln.
Palin also expressed her support for Georgia and Ukraine joining the U.S.-led NATO alliance. That statement was predictable and consistent with the current policy of the Bush administration. The policy has dangerously raised tensions with Russia, but Palin is hardly alone in the conservative/Republican consensus in expressing her support for it.
Palin's assessment of foreign policy was competent and not embarrassing. Although she initially exhibited ignorance of the Bush Doctrine on pre-emptive strikes that has been a central pillar of U.S. foreign policy after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, she recovered quickly and then made the case clearly. Tactically, she made the mistake of trying to be friendly and informal with Gibson, who assumed a superior, professorial and critical stance toward her. She would have been far better going on the attack to rattle him.
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You can put white wash on a fraud, but he is still a fraud.
She’s running for one of the most powerful offices in this nation, I WANT her answering the hard questions.
Gibson was out to embarrass Palin and expose her presumed ignorance from the word go. By contrast, when Obama referred to his “Muslim faith” on Sunday and did not correct himself, Stephanopoulos rushed in at once to help him and emphasize that the senator had really meant to say his Christian faith.
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HERE IT IS!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Blowback promised. Delivered November 4.
Let’s see how Sarah does in round two!
Did UPI jump off the Obama boat?
Gibson’s performance makes me appreciate the guys at Fox News even more. The Fox guys, while they would ask the tough questions, would never be so condescending to Barack Obama or Joe Biden.
I am so miffed that I would punch fat-arsed charlie in the nose.
LLS
Makes ya sick.
Gibson is a elitist jerk and know everyone knows it.
When Sarah eventually occupies the Oval Office the Libtards are really gonna choke on the Palin Doctrine.
Go Sarah Go!
God Bless McCain and Palin
Also, I don't know if it was intentional, but her comment, "Did you know you can see Russia from Alaska," with a great big innocent smile, seemed to me a little trap for the "intellectual." At the very least it caused him to become even more supercilious.
Right. Asking whether or not it was appropriate to ask people to pray for soldiers in Iraq is a tough question.
Slanted and biased would be better adjectives.
Go Sarah Go!
God Bless McCain and Palin
No argument here...but I also want her opponents from the Democrat ticket to receive and answer hard questions as well. So often, that is not the case.
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