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Here is video of Liberal Canadian candidate for Prime Minister Stephane Dion suffering through a total disaster of an interview in which he was completely unable to understand the question given him. He asked to "start again" with the interview three times! Imagine a melt-down like this with either Obama or McCain! . . . . (Watch Video)

In a joint interview, John McCain and Sarah Palin do not pass up the chance to question Democrat Barack Obama's readiness to be president -- or to assail some of his associates in Chicago. Asked whether he believes Obama is prepared for the Oval Office, McCain answers, “I don't." "But I'll let the American people make a judgment in just 28 days. But I think he lacks the experience and the knowledge, and most importantly, the judgment that he has displayed,” he said in an interview airing tonight on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes." McCain cast the questioning of...

She just shines right through the fog, muck, dreariness of this campaign. There is no doubt she would have crushed Obama last night and could beat him in the general. Both candidates last night were gloomy, doomsday politicians. Palin would have brought her sunny, Reaganesque, can-do American spirit to that debate and convinced voters that we Americans have gone through much worse and come through smelling like a rose, and we can do it again. Witness, once again, the future president in action.

Sarah Palin Was Annoyed During Interviews With Katie Couric By Noel Sheppard Created 2008-10-04 16:06 Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin admitted Friday that she was annoyed during her interviews with CBS's Katie Couric because she felt the "Evening News" anchor missed a lot of opportunities to discuss issues "that Americans want to hear about." Having taken a lot of criticism from Obama-loving media members about her performance during these interviews, Palin met with Fox News's Carl Cameron Friday to clear the air about why she appeared a tad ill at ease with Couric (video embedded right, relevant section at 2:25):...

MIKE GALLAGHER: It’s an honor and a privilege to welcome to our show U.S. Senator and Republican Presidential Candidate, a man I hope we can call President Elect in a couple of months, John McCain joins us here on the Mike Gallagher Show, Senator McCain how are you sir? SEN. JOHN MCCAIN: I’m fine Mike, thanks very much. Actually I’m exhilarated because of Sarah Palin’s… GALLAGHER: What a night, what a night. I had a listener from Ohio who writes “Sarah Palin sliced and diced and did it with a smile; she hit it out of the park.” You have...

ST. LOUIS –- Fox News’ Carl Cameron conducted the first post-debate interview with Sarah Palin this morning. The extensive interview went over last night’s Vice-Presidential face off, her debate prep, campaign strategy, media access and the hits she has been getting for not having more access to the media, and of course the much talked about and criticized interview she did with CBS’s Katie Couric. ---------snip She then slammed Barack Obama calling him disqualified to be President of the United States, “Some of his comments that he has made about the war that I think may in my world disqualifies...

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Here is video of Sen. John McCain's interview with Fox News' Carl Cameron today as they discussed the campaign and major issues facing America. . . . . (Watch Video)

Here is the complete video of Sen. John McCain meeting with the Editorial Board of the Des Moines Register yesterday, September 30, 2008. . . . (Watch Video)

In her first radio interview since becoming the Republican vice presidential nominee, Governor Sarah Palin joined Hugh Hewitt on “The Hugh Hewitt Show.”  (Listen Here)Hugh Hewitt: Governor, your candidacy has ignited extreme hostility, even some hatred on the left and in some parts of the media. Are you surprised? And what do you attribute this reaction to?Sarah Palin: I think they’re just not used to someone coming in from the outside saying, “You know what? It’s time that normal Joe six-pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency.” I think that that’s kind of taken some people...

Here is video of Sen. John McCain being interviewed by NBC News' Kelly O'Donnell today. He talked about the economic crisis, his running mate - Gov. Sarah Palin, and his status now as the "underdog" in the campaign. . . . (Watch Video)

HH: Governor Sarah Palin, welcome to the Hugh Hewitt Show. Great to have you. SP: Hey, thank you so much. Nice to hear your voice. HH: Governor, your candidacy has ignited extreme hostility, even some hatred on the left and in some parts of the media. Are you surprised? And what do you attribute this reaction to? SP: Oh, I think they’re just not used to someone coming in from the outside saying you know what? It’s time that normal Joe six-pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency, and I think that that’s kind of taken...

Come with me back through the mists of time.......focus your eyes to see through the haze of the media fog machine.....there it is, The Lost Sarah Palin Interview.Your eyes will mist over as you fondly remember the bright, competent, confident governor who lit a fire in conservative hearts in their darkest hour oh so long ago. Well, it's only been a month but it seems ohhhh so longggg ago.....On Monday, I was in Alaska for an hour-long CNBC special on the oil business and had an exclusive interview with Governor Sarah Palin, selected Friday as Republican John McCain's Vice-Presidential running...

So, it's panic time among right wing elitists. CNN is reporting that "prominent conservative columnist Kathleen Parker" has called for Sarah Palin to get off the ticket. Most Americans are wondering, "Who the heck is Kathleen Parker?" Apparently, according to Parker, Sarah Palin is unqualified to be President because she doesn't give good interviews in adversarial settings. Jim Geraghty of National Review compared Kathleen Parker calling for Palin to get off to Hugh Hewitt abandoning Mitt Romney. With respect, Mr. Geraghty, give me a break. Parker wrote on September 19 ("A Time to Worry") in National Review that she was...

Sorry for the vanity. Just watched the Palin Couric interview and I am concerned. First, I think Palin was an inspired VP choice, gave a great convention speech, and did well under adverse conditions in the Gibson interview. Second, even though I thought she was awful during the Couric debate, I believe she would make a very good President. Many people who are unaware of a candidiate's accomplishments and record, will judge a person's fitness for office based on how they "come across" during an interview or debate. While I think that the substance of what someone says can reflect...

SJReidhead over at the Pink Flamingo notes why Sarah Palin came off so incoherent in those CBS News interviews with Katie Colic - Palin’s responses where edited to make her appear to stumble: “…(2:58) Couric: What, specifically, in your view, could be done to convince the new government in Pakistan to take a harder, tougher line against terrorists in that country? Palin: At a time when new leadership comes in, that is the opportunity to forge better, tighter, more productive relationships and that’s what we’ll take advantage of with new leadership in the US and in Pakistan. And I’m sure...

CBS News executives were red- faced yesterday trying to explain how David Letterman used unaired news footage of Sen. John McCain with Katie Couric to embarrass the Republican presidential candidate. McCain canceled his appearance on Letterman's show late Wednesday, several hours before he was due to appear - claiming he had to return to Washington to deal with the financial crisis.

Ms. Couric reminded the governor that she recently met with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who supports direct diplomacy with both countries. “Are you saying Henry Kissinger is naïve?” Ms. Couric asked. Ms. Palin replied, “I’ve never heard Henry Kissinger say, ‘Yeah, I’ll meet with these leaders without preconditions being met.’ ”

Source link. When is a train wreck not a train wreck? Well, in the case of Gov. Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric on CBS, when Ms. Palin’s staunchest defenders are looking at it. Take Free Republic, which calls itself “the premier online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the Web.” It has some of the most passionate right-wing bloggers out there. If the comments on this thread, from Friday morning, are any indication, the “Freepers” of Freerepublic.com had a completely different take than many other people who watched the interview. We’ve deleted some of the comments in the...

What Brand Makes You Feel Comfortable? The role ofan unexamined prejudice in modern lifeWe all know the categories of prejudice that are discussed, and re-hashed endlessly, in contemporary life: racism, sexism ageism. We have made a secular liturgy of discussing these issues, and, no doubt, some good has come from it. As a tail-end baby-boomer I absorbed the principle, taught very early on, about the dangers of stereotyping. If our generation wasn't going to get anything else right on the ethical/moral front, we were going to end prejudice--at least end the sort of prejudice that was directed against the approved...

Is there some kind of competition on the left to see who can make the most denigrating comment about the mental acuity of Republicans? As we've noted, last night Paul Begala called President Bush "a high-functioning moron," perhaps Begala's bid to one-up Rep. Charles Rangel, who had called Sara Palin "disabled." Today, it's Jonathan Capehart's turn. Speaking with David Shuster on MSNBC this afternoon, the Washington Post editorial writer said that Sarah Palin reminds him of Lauren Caitlin Upton, the 2007 Miss Teen South Carolina whose tangles ["U.S. Americans," etc.] with the English language made her an overnight YouTube star....

(Sept. 26, 2008) "Couric Diminishes Gov. Palin" Media elites are deliberately trying to hide Palin's experience by refusing to call her governor: Quote: CBS News anchor Katie Couric ordered staff to drop all references to "Governor" or "Gov." from her interview with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. When a staff member pointed out that in other venues, Couric and CBS News had referred to Governor Palin's opponent, Joe Biden, using his title of "Senator" or the abbreviation, Couric, according to a CBS News editorial aide, sought approval from CBS News management to drop the "Governor" reference during her broadcast interview with...

CBS News & Katie Couric, in a never ending attempt to belittle Republican Vice Presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin, ordered it’s staff to diminish Sarah’s importance.

Couric Diminishes Gov. Palin By The Prowler Published 9/26/2008 12:08:10 AM CBS New anchor Katie Couric ordered staff to drop all references to "Governor" or "Gov." from her interview with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. When a staff member pointed out that in other venues, Couric and CBS News had referred to Governor Palin's opponent, Joe Biden, using his title of "Senator" or the abbreviation, Couric, according to a CBS News editorial aide, sought approval from CBS News management to drop the "Governor" reference during her broadcast interview with Palin that began on Wednesday night. "It's not true," said another CBS...

From the CBS News transcript of Palin’s interview with Katie Couric: Next, Couric asked about the $700 billion government bailout of bad debt - and whether she supports it. Palin: I’m all about the position that America is in and that we have to look at a $700 billion bailout. When I read that passage I thought: Jeez, what a ditz. I’m, like, all about the position America’s in, fer shure!Except, that’s not what she said. I just watched it, and she said: I’m ill about the position that America is in and that we have to look at a...

NEW YORK - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin defended her remark that the close proximity of Russia to her home state of Alaska gives her foreign policy experience, explaining in a CBS interview airing Thursday that "we have trade missions back and forth." ADVERTISEMENT Palin has never visited Russia and until last year the 44-year-old Alaska governor had never traveled outside North America. She also had never met a foreign leader until her trip this week to New York. In the CBS interview, she did not offer any examples of having been involved in any negotiations with the Russians.

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A global financial crisis and a not-quite-suspended presidential campaign dominated newspaper front pages and television reports over the last couple of days. Bad news for America. But good news for Sarah Palin. The economic crisis and John McCain's surprising response have drawn attention away from the Republican vice presidential nominee just as she has started to answer more pointed questions from the media. Her third nationally televised interview, with CBS anchor Katie Couric, found Palin rambling, marginally responsive and even more adrift than during her network debut with ABC’s Charles Gibson. In a 40-minute session with Couric that aired Wednesday...

Here is Part 2 of Gov. Sarah Palin's interview with CBS News Anchor Katie Couric. Part I is also posted if you did not see it earlier . . . . . (see videos at link)

Go Sarah! She did a fine job.LINK

Here is video of an interview Gov. Sarah Palin did with CBS News Anchor Katie Couric, which aired tonight on the CBS Evening News. . . . (see video at link)

"I'm ill about the position that America is in and that we have to look at a $700 billion bailout. At the same time we know that inaction is not an option and as Senator McCain has said unless this nearly trillion-dollar bailout is what it may end up to be, unless there are amendments in Paulson's proposal, really I don't believe that Americans are going to support this and we will not support this," Palin said in the interview. Couric pressed Palin on examples of how McCain, a 26-year congressional veteran, had led the charge for more oversight. The...

Don't think we will be very happy with this. Looks like a heavily edited hit piece. This seems to be a mistake by McCain/Palin.

Katie Couric: If this doesn't pass, do you think there's a risk of another Great Depression? Palin: Unfortunately, that is the road that America may find itself on. Not necessarily this, as it's been proposed, has to pass or we're gonna find ourselves in another Great Depression. But there has to be action taken, bipartisan effort – Congress not pointing fingers at this point at … one another, but finding the solution to this, taking action and being serious about the reforms on Wall Street that are needed.

Sarah Palin: The interesting thing in the last couple of days that I have seen is that Americans are waiting to see what John McCain will do on this proposal. They’re not waiting to see what Barack Obama is going to do. Is he going to do this and see what way the political wind’s blowing. They’re waiting to see if John McCain will be able to see these amendments implemented in Paulson’s proposal. Katie Couric: If this doesn't pass, do you think there's a risk of another Great Depression? Palin: Unfortunately, that is the road that America may find...

Here's a sneak peek of the pending Katie Couric interview with Sarah Palin:

During Charlie Gibson's interview with Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, millions of Americans did not notice something very important. As Gibson was looking down his pointy nose at Palin, some of his notes slipped from his lap onto the floor. RFFM.org has been fortunate enough to obtain the lost Gibson questions and we hope they will shed more light on Gibson's journalistic style and some of the preparation he used to get ready for the first national interview with Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin. Q. Governor Palin, ...

JOHN McCAIN selected Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate 23 days ago. Since then, Ms. Palin has not held a single news conference with the national media. She has answered only a handful of questions from voters and reporters. She sat down for a lengthy discussion with one nonpartisan interviewer, ABC's Charles Gibson, and granted another interview to conservative Sean Hannity of Fox News, as well as a sit-down with People magazine and some interviews with Alaska media. Where Dick Cheney made the rounds of five news shows the weekend after he was tapped by George W....

(VIDEO) Newt Gingrich, Ph.d., a brilliant student and teacher of history, puts Sarah Palins's answer to ABC's Charley Gibson's condescending and smug "gotcha" question in historical context. The liberal MSM should see Gingrich's video and learn something about America and the role faith plays among great wartime leaders.

After Charlie Gibson arrogantly misquoted Sarah Palin's prayer for the troops back to Sarah Palin, he followed up by asking her if we were fighting a holy war. He was, of course, trying to paint her as the Crusading Christian Zealot, who would bleed a generation of America's youth fighting for God against the heathens in the sands of the Middle East. All she was doing was praying that God protect the troops and our country and praying that our leaders' plans are part of God's plan. Her prayer was sorta like the ones these other guys made. Nobody seemed...

Here's the 2nd-half of Sean Hannity's interview with Sarah - I love this gal! She rocks!

Video: An Interesting Bill Clinton Interview Seemingly Pro-Obama but with Weird Subtextual Bombs Obama won't be Happy about. He talks about McCain, Palin, and why Obama is coming back up in the polls. This is a strange interview with Bill Clinton. Watch the first 3:40:

WASHINGTON -- It is an odd thing to observe a historical debate on events about which one possesses the knowledge of a participant -- something like watching archeologists dig and sift through your living room, proposing their own interpretations of your photos and knickknacks. And it raises a disturbing prospect: That most such debates are conducted by experts possessing great confidence and little knowledge. This controversy began when ABC's Charles Gibson asked Sarah Palin to give her view of the Bush doctrine. Palin's vague answer provoked a dismissive response from Gibson, who defined the doctrine as "anticipatory self-defense." Charles Krauthammer...

SECOND DEGREE KATIE GETS TWO DAYS WITH PALIN. NBC GETS COLD MOOSE STEW. By DON KAPLAN Last updated: 12:53 pmSeptember 18, 2008 Posted: 2:53 amSeptember 18, 2008 *snip* Couric is slated to spend two days on the road with the Republican vice presidential candidate and presidential hopeful John McCain. The material she gathers will be aired Sept. 29 and 30 on the "CBS Evening News" and "The Early Show" - just before the Oct. 2 vice presidential debate between Palin and Democrat Joe Biden.ABC's Charlie Gibson had the first in-depth network interview with Palin last week, but his handling of...

So how did Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate, handle her first big-time sit-down interview? ABC News' Charlie Gibson asked pointed questions about her fitness for office and her views on foreign policy. After Palin strongly answered "yes" to the question about her preparedness to assume the presidency, Gibson asked whether she agrees with the "Bush Doctrine." "In what respect, Charlie?" asked a rather bewildered Palin. "The Bush -- well, what do you -- what do you interpret it to be?" Gibson challenged. "His worldview?" Palin asked. Gibson replied, "No, the Bush Doctrine, enunciated September 2002, before the...

Here's a video clip of the first part of Sean Hannity's interview with Sarah Palin.

Sarah Palin did very well tonight in the Sean Hannity interview (and the bitter liberal response hosted by sour puss Alan Colmes was a disaster). My absolutely most favorite line was when Sarah said too many people are “addicted to OPM: Other People’s Money”. In one catch all phrase she distilled down the anger and frustration America has with both Wall Street and Washington (and by extension the broader Political Industrial Community of media, political consultants, lobbyists and politicians).

The McCain campaign went looking for a major anchor to be awarded the blessing and the curse of the first Sarah Palin interview -- a blessing for ratings and a curse from all the competitors who would accuse the winners of being soft on Republicans. At CBS, Katie Couric had wallowed in fan-club-president questions to Hillary Clinton about her "pure stamina," so she couldn't be first. NBC's Brian Williams kept asking Barack Obama those hardballs about how his late mother would swoon over the latest glowingly positive "news" magazine cover. How hard was it to pick Charlie Gibson on ABC?...

Here is the video of Sean Hannity's first night of interviews of Sarah Palin parts 1,2 and 3. The interview will continue tomorrow night . . . . . (see video at link)

Charles Gibson's one-hour interview with Sarah Palin on a special edition of 20/20 Friday night gave the ABC magazine its best ratings in six months and the highest ratings of the night for any program. The special also trounced the second hour of Dateline which featured a profile of Clark Rockefeller, the man accused of snatching his daughter away from his ex-wife. Other segments of Gibson's interview with Palin attracted big audiences for World News With Charles Gibson and Nightline.