Credit: artist of this gif is FReeper humblegunner (and you know how temperamental artists are if you don't give them credit)
Posted on 04/27/2011 9:42:56 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
(CNN) - As Katie Couric gets set to leave CBS News after five years in the anchor chair, it doesn't appear as if Sarah Palin will be sending any flowers.
Appearing on Fox News Tuesday, Palin mocked the CBS newswoman who told People Magazine she is looking forward to a new position that will facilitate "multi-dimensional storytelling."
"Yeah, and I hear that she wants to now engage in more 'multi-dimensional story telling' versus I guess just the 'straight on, read into the, that teleprompter screen story telling,'" Palin said. "More power to her. I wish her well in her - 'multi-dimensional story telling.'"
Palin has repeatedly made clear she is still no fan of Couric, who's interview with Palin produced one of the most memorable political foibles of the 2008 presidential campaign.
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No, and he would be destroyed for it.
Reagan married into wealth.
Credit: artist of this gif is FReeper humblegunner (and you know how temperamental artists are if you don't give them credit)
She didn't bring Couric up....Greta did ! And Palin wasn't "snarky" at all; it was actually funny.
And for those blaming Sarah, it was Nicole Wallace, who had worked for Couric ( that should tell you something, right there! ), who set the interview up and was in charge of getting Palin prepped for it. The interview was many hours long and then edited to put Sarah in the worst possible light possible.
If Reagan were alive to day and said some of the things he did back then ( especially the thing about not blaming his opponent for his young age ), he would be made fun of, that statement would be called "SNARKY", at the least, and worse.
“Not that she is running, but what does a presidential candidate sound like? Like the stuff that the President is putting out these days, about Paul Ryan of all people.”
I agree. Palin is not going to run but still why take a swipe at Katie Couric? It looks petty. Nobody cares about Couric. Why bother?
There is NO disconnect between Palin and American voters. Agree or disagree...we have a common frame of reference in values and traditions which have been unquestionably American for as long as anyone can remember.
“O” (as all Liberals) needs to qualify himself to Americans until the day he dies. They are perceptibly and effectively alienated from traditional America and they chose to pursue this intentionally. They are proud of it!
“Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.” Christopher Lasch
She just sounds like your average snarky poster on FR. I want someone better than that as President. I cannot even imagine Reagan making small petty comments like this.
I'll never forget the Dan Quayle "Potato(e)" thing.
Your assumption is invalid,terribly invalid. The msm Reagan tolerated is not the same today. Today’s MSM are rabid leftists intent on destruction. Not a one should be courted or made a friend.
The MSM is the enemy of conservatism.
Tolerating the MSM is to lose the battle.
It is so easy. There is no reason to turn the other cheek. Your concept is defeatist in 2011
You mean the 70 million American voters that voted for the son of a Kenyan goat herder?
Bert, I was just thinking about slamming gator for a profoundly disagreeable statement, putting it nicely, when I came to your comment.
Congrats, I could not have said it any better!
“There you go again” was another Reagan statement and applies to you today sir!
Although the media in Reagan’s day was bad, and I’ll grant you that, some 30 years later they are, to a conservative candidate anywhere, a pack of wild hyena blood seeking marxists. Bert had it right! The media today is the avowed enemy of ANY conservative! Period. A conservative, particularly Sarah Palin, trying to befriend a media person is like sleeping with a rattle snake in your bed!
The media was every bit as nasty during Reagan’s time as it is now. People forget that, because of the generally glowing coverage the media had when Reagan died. There’s nothing new under the Sun.
The media is just as nasty today, they went ballistic against Reagan and against George W, but we have never seen anything like what they have done against Governor Palin since August 2008.
There was no way, absolutely no way in cowboy hell McCain would have ever been elected. I've met people like you before; I call them onry contrarians - other people just call them a$$holes.
I can agree with that to an extent, but I also think part of the difference lied with how Reagan handled the media, and his ability to disarm them. It’s a skill that IMHO Palin needs to work on. Believe me, I’m rooting for Palin, I want very badly to see her do well, but she won’t win by merely preaching to choir, she is going to have to convert a lot people, who right now, won’t even consider voting for her.
"a know-nothing spokesmodel'? You regurgitate a left-wing, anti-Palin talking point with a 'conservative' fillip added to make it seem pertinent - but it fools no one.
Katie Couric is a dedicated 'progressive' who came to the Palin interview with an agenda; to make Sarah Palin look bad. Because liberals invariably believe the self-serving nonsense that only those who embrace liberal political ideology are 'smart', unlike conservatives. Palin, who came from a rural environment (Alaska) and was attractive, to boot, must be 'stupid' and, by golly, Perky Katie would prove it. Well, it took a very long interview (edited down, of course) and Perky Katie asking he same question over and over but she finally had the response she sought. One that would portray Sarah Palin as the 'know-nothing spokesmodel' you label her. A label that is demonstrably false. That you post it here indicates that you're either terribly uninformed - or a troll. I'll assume its the latter.
My interpretation is that Republicans had a hostile media in Reagan’s time and that Reagan (and Nixon) brought out the worst in them, but both Reagan and Nixon occasionally got a breather to be treated as Republican leaders and the attacks were not so completely thorough, personal, all encompassing and made up, mostly they were of a nasty political nature.
George W. actually got sympathetic media assistance to get him through his primary against his more conservative opponents.
Governor Palin on the other hand was set upon before the general public even knew who she was, the media attempted to smother her from the VERY FIRST DAY, and make her stillborn to prevent her from ever having a political future or influence, and it never let up.
Just those first three days of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday coverage (Aug, 2008) were so vile and nasty that many freepers will never forget that weekend, America had never experienced anything like it, and it has never let up, they come at her from every angle, every venue, with attacks geared to hurt her with every possible audience, it even covers all of her family members to make sure that no niche, such as teen girls, or daytime watching women can find anything positive to associate with the name PALIN.
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