Posted on 09/23/2008 5:47:47 PM PDT by pissant
With today’s kerfuffle over the media being kept away from Sarah Palin’s meetings with foreign leaders -- like there was a risk she’d answer their shouted questions? -- I’ve been mulling over Colby’s post about the Hannity-Palin “100 percent pure infomercial” interview. I watched both nights, then read the transcripts, and I think the interview hasn’t gotten nearly the attention it deserved. While I agree with Colby’s assessment that the audience was “treated to a political advertisement aimed at serving the interests of the Republican presidential ticket,” I think the Hannity love-fest offered a valuable look at Palin, perhaps more revealing because she was on such friendly territory. For all the softballs Hannity tossed her way, Palin did not come off very well, in my view. If this was a political commercial, I wasn’t buying the product.
The way she answers questions brings to mind -- I have Alaska on the brain, admittedly -- the image of a polar bear, jumping from rhetorical ice floe to ice floe, drifting some but eventually managing to get safely to dry land. No flubs, but you get the sense that she could plunge into the icy water at any moment. Palin has an odd tendency to use the same word twice in a sentence, as in, “The people of American realize that inherently all political power is inherent in the people,” or, about John McCain, “He can surpass the partisanship that must be surpassed to deal with an issue like this.”
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
I think she would do the ticket well if she did face the media. I think she ought to give ole Imus a call one morning, that would stun his bebber.
Three words in, and I can’t take any of this seriously with the language abuse of using the word ‘kerfuffle’
Obama repeats the same words in a single sentence too...um um er er um er...
Just who in the blue thunder do these people think they are! They are utterly irrational in their measure of their own self importance.
No, Ruth, it’s just payback you the way you 4$$holes have treated her and her husband and her children. You deserve to be kept out. Learn to act like journalists, not the Enquirer.
Good post...who is this barking Barkus reporter?...
Let's see, the press is now saying that Palin can walk on water...
Biden.......... 1929's President Roosevelt
And they remain silent, of course.
His economic speech the other day tried to link “trickle down” economics to the current economic problems.
I am not people are buying it anymore. His speeches are garbled, and lack unity. He just keeping using the kos keywords like Cheney and Rumsfeld.
This is a “journalist” looking for a problem to have.
I swear....this woman sounds like she is on ‘Cheaters’ and Sarah Palin just stole her date! LOL!
No sense letting that happen again, and with the kind of people who work for the Washington Post, it's almost a certainty they have more than their fair share of terrorists on staff.
Frankly, he should have requested that the Wash Post reporters be detained in the nearest federal lockup until he left town.
BTW, the other day we got a call from Tesoro Oil ~ lady on the other end of the line had a voice and accent eerily like that of Sarah Palin. Simply amazing. That Alaska accent is simply not at all like Karzai's.
They’ve been reported swimming 700 miles from the nearest land or ice. You may be thinking of another kind of bear.
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