Stand up, Chuck!
Posted on 09/12/2008 4:38:54 PM PDT by downtownconservative
Charlie Gibson's Gaffe
By Charles Krauthammer Saturday, September 13, 2008; A17
"At times visibly nervous . . . Ms. Palin most visibly stumbled when she was asked by Mr. Gibson if she agreed with the Bush doctrine. Ms. Palin did not seem to know what he was talking about. Mr. Gibson, sounding like an impatient teacher, informed her that it meant the right of 'anticipatory self-defense.' "
-- New York Times, Sept. 12
Informed her? Rubbish.
The New York Times got it wrong. And Charlie Gibson got it wrong.
There is no single meaning of the Bush Doctrine. In fact, there have been four distinct meanings, each one succeeding another over the eight years of this administration -- and the one Charlie Gibson cited is not the one in common usage today. It is utterly different.
He asked Palin, "Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?"
She responded, quite sensibly to a question that is ambiguous, "In what respect, Charlie?"
Sensing his "gotcha" moment, Gibson refused to tell her. After making her fish for the answer, Gibson grudgingly explained to the moose-hunting rube that the Bush doctrine "is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense."
Wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
we need more CK’s
On the money.
Yes, that was the Bush Doctrine as defined in that SCOTUS address that was so much criticized by Peggy Noonan and others as naive—thinking you could bring freedom to other people.
Well, it ain’t easy to bring freedom to folks who don’t want it. But what else do we have to offer as a counterweight to the Muslim doctrine of Submission. What, but freedom. It is, after all, rather a contagious idea.
Gibson was on strict orders from the Grinch.
He played the part well, trying to take Christmas away from one and all...
The NY media all have that explaining why they are so out of touch with "fly over" America.
Thank God I left that place! (as much as I enjoyed the 7 year experience too!!)
Oops. Not SCOTUS, SOTUS.
If CK married Greta Van Sustern, she’d be Greta Krauthammer. Man! Whatta name that would be!!
Oh, Gibson wasn’t uninformed. He knew exactly what he was doing. Throw a vague question, and use the answer to smear the answerer. Typical media crap, and why over 50% of the American People think the media is trying to hurt Palin.
And this is the supposed gotcha that had we Freepers in a near panic yesterday. But in the end it turns out that our gal was right and "Charlie"/MSM was wrong. So life is good again.
Yep, Dr. Krauthammer has really come around on Gov. Palin. Of course to my mind that was only Gibon’s second worst gaff in the interview. What a moron Gibson apparently is.
Can you please correct the gaffe in the title of the thread? It is, for some reason, driving me crazy!
Stand up, Chuck!
Charles Krauthammer educates charlie.
Charlie did irreparable harm to his Q-factor by doing this.
Gibson was waiting like a snake for a “gotcha” moment with Palin and expected her to be a dumb redneck who could easily be caught by his twisted questions. Palin was straight forward, honest and totally not rattled by Gibson’s BS.
Not only was it Gibon's second worst gaff, but it was also Gibson's second worst gaffe.
Gibson is the big loser in this whole ordeal. His moose is cooked! No more hiding behind some fraudulent facade of “I'm one of the old school honest journalists”.
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