Posted on 09/12/2008 9:06:47 PM PDT by andrew roman
The question by Gibson was a bad one. Like asking her:
Do you agree with President Bush?
Well how do you answer that? You ask ...On what issue?
You need clarification. The Bush Doctrine is an ABSTRACT term not a CONCRETE document. It can mean different things to different people. Stupid question. Palin did fine on that one.
I was more concerned about her Bridge to Nowhere explanation. It was kind of fudgy.
I still like her.
Gibson is as clueless as 0bama. 2 pea-brains in a pod.
ROTFLOL. By far the best take on the Bush Doctrine flap that I’ve seen. Genius Satire.
I do think, however, that the campaign made a tactical mistake in allowing ABC the first shot at Palin. I personally think she should have taken her first interview with Chris Wallace, a well respected newsman and I suspect (based on his typical selections for Power Player of the Week) liberal, who's repeatedly demonstrated -- unlike Charlie Gibson -- that he's in nobody's pocket.
I know a lot of people are looking forward to the debates, and I have to wonder why? The galleries will be loaded with Dem operatives, the questions will be loaded with Dem talking points, and the putative newscasters will be loaded for elephant. I really do think we need to to stop granting the left the prerogative of home field advantage. I know ... I know ... it's all in the game, but it's a game we shouldn't play any more. MSNBC isn't even a serious news channel anymore so much as a three ring circus. CBS goes out of its way to disavow comments made by Couric on behalf of Hillary Clinton that apply in spades to Palin. And now this baloney ON ABC: editing clips to hide Gibson's calumny in regards to the "Holy War." Enough is enough.
Palin made an important point in her speech at the RNC, and it should be repeated, and greatly amplified. To wit: How can anybody but the most clueless, self-important, self-aggrandizing fool actually believe that being a Governor of a State of any size, a small town mayor, a member of the AK Oil and Gas Commission, or for that matter chairman of the PTA, is a less important qualification for President than an appearance on Meet the Press? Why is the approval of a handful of stuck-up little bastards in the Washington Press Corps a more important barometer of capability than the approval of 86% of 700,000 Americans?
This is nonsense.
She shouldn't have given the time-of-day to this sanctimonious megalomaniac let alone tolerantly endure the huffing and puffing, eye-rolling, and general disrespect she did.
Somebody needs to tell Charlie that he looked like a real dork with the “granny glass” down on his nose. LOL!
Thanks very much! I am most appreciative.
:)
Excellent response. Very thoughtful. Thanks for the time you took to answer my post.
How disingenuous of some to put so much stock in President Bush’s low approval rating, yet somehow discount the magnanimous approval rating of Governor Palin in her home state.
I happen to enjoy Chris Wallace. His program on FNC would have been the perfect forum for Governor Palin. The interview would have tough but fair, would have lasted the entire hour of the show and would have been more informative and illuminating than anything the other networks could have mustered - combined.
Sure, the Bush Doctrine may have “rung hollow” in the eyes of the Cato Institute’s Charles Pena in January, 2003, but it shouldn’t have kept Palin from “Understanding the Bush Doctrine,” as articulated by Noam Chomsky in October, 2004. Furthermore, her inability to summon the characterization of the Bush Doctrine as articulated by William Marina and David T. Bielo of the Independent Institute on December 9, 2004, both of whom explain that the Doctrine was actually fathered by Teddy Roosevelt a century earlier – a “pre-emptive imperialism,” as they described it – speaks volumes of Governor Palin’s inexperience.
It may actually be this century-old pre-emptive version of the Bush Doctrine, implemented decades before his birth, which Gibson spoke of in his interview with Sarah Palin.
And this woman wants to be Vice President?
Great satire!! Thanks for a good laugh!
Thank you for taking the time to read it!
Wonderful!!! Every citizen needs to read this!! I am sending it to my email correspondents, I hope lots of other FReepers will do the same.
Charlie Gibson should be required to read this entire piece on the air and then apologize to VP Palin (oops, I meant to say Governor Palin, I suppose, for now) for his pitiful, biased, inept interview.
Thanks for the affirmation! We knew she got it right. We just weren't sure by how much.
The Bush Doctrine, as I understand it, especially uttered on the day of Sept 10th prior to Patriot Day Sept 11, is “we will pursue the terrorists wherever they are, and the nations that harbor those terrorists as though they are the terrorists themselves...”
This Doctrine, which emerged from the rubble of Sept. 11 was the key to the attack on Al Quiada harbored by the Taliban in Afganistan. This Doctrine had important consequences for Saddam and his long history of support for terrorists.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2081460/posts
I agree, Charles Krauthammer exposes Gibson’s Gaffe.
And isn’t he the guy who actually coined the phrase “Bush doctrine”?
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