Before Katie Couric interviewed Sarah Palin, she told the staff at CBS News to drop the title “Governor” from all references to Sarah Palin. And people wonder why Governor Palin wasn’t at her best? I only saw bits and peices of the interview, but there’s been quite a bit of criticism of Palin’s performance from both Democrats and Republicans.
Has anyone stopped to consider that perhaps Governor Palin has been taken aback by the complete contempt and disrespect she’s been shown by the Main Stream Media? Come on, she’s a human being! These people call themselves professional, objective journalists and then do nothing to hide their bias. They think the American people are too stupid to figure it out.
The American Spectator picked up on the story and compared Couric’s interview with Sarah Palin to that of Joe Biden.
Here is an excerpt from the transcript of a Couric interview with “Sen.” Biden:
Katie Couric: How is it preparing for the debates?
Sen. Joe Biden: Well, it’s kind of hard to prepare because I don’t know what she thinks. There’s been no — I don’t know a lot about her, so I have to assume for purposes of the debate that she agrees with John on everything.
Now compare that the transcript of the “Palin” interview:
Couric: Why do you say that? Why are they waiting for John McCain and not Barack Obama?
Palin: He’s got the track record of the leadership qualities and the pragmatism that’s needed at a crisis time like this.
I think Palin should start refusing interviews with these buffoons. All they want to do is trap her with “gotcha” questions while they look down there noses at her. This is what they think of middle class Americans.
Update: CBS edited out many of Palin’s questions (of course). Transcript.
[...] post by Lonely Conservative Katie Couric denigrated Sarah [...]
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[...] Katie Couric denigrated Sarah Palin 1 hour ago [...]
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[...] Katie Couric denigrated Sarah Palin 2 hours ago [...]
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Couric should be more concerned with her own ratings. She’s in the tank not Sarah. We’ll hate to see you go Katie, but I can’t wait to see who the next bimbo will be.
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[...] Katie Couric denigrated Sarah Palin [...]
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This is so sad. You only watched bits and pieces but spew an opinion, with no basis in facts. No wonder you criticize the media – you don’t understand the world around you.
She’s running for the second ranking position in the country. Even if Katie Couric WAS being harsh (which I disagree with) do you really want a VP who can’t match wits with the host of the evening news?
Seriously. Pathetic. Put some more thought into this.
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After having watched the interview with GOVERNOR Sarah Palin, there’s no question that any sort of respect I might have had for Katie Couric has gone down the tubes. Instead of staying neutral, respectable and credible in her interview with GOVERNOR Sarah Palin, the cutesome Couric comes across as brash, biased and completely out of bounds in her questions directed at the GOVERNOR. I empasize GOVERNOR in this case because I did not know prior to this interview that Katie had even gone to the extent of advising her CBS crew of not referring to the GOVERNOR as just that. I think from now on, we should refer to Katie as just that and not preceded by the title News Anchor that she worked so hard to achieve in a male-dominated choice of careers.
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Craig, I would prefer a VP that needs a bit of coaching to a President that needs coaching.
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[...] Katie Couric denigrated Sarah Palin 2 hours ago [...]
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Interesting response from passionatespeaker, especially in that it shows passionatespeaker is no better at delivering specifics than Governor Palin herself.
I’ve read the transcript of the interview and could find no evidence of Couric being either brash, biased or “completely out of bounds” in her questions. All of the questions were ones that any candidate for vice president of the most powerful nation in the world should have been ready, willing and eager to answer. Yet Palin could answer none of them. I wonder which question — or is it all of them? — has gotten passionatespeaker so rattled and defensive. But I don’t think passion will be responding to this. Certainly not with any evidence to prove her point. By the way, it’s neither disrespectful nor unusual to refer to candidates in the homestretch as simply “the candidate.” Internal decisions on how to refer to a guest on one’s show are simply a matter of protocol, not an attempt to wound anyone. Those decisions aren’t publicized because they don’t impact the final broadcast product. In this case, of course, the conservative media snoops had to scrape the barrel to find something to convince their crybaby audience that their poor girl was being beat up on by the terrifying Ms. Couric. And passionatespeaker’s comment proves that the old trick still works.
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Andrew, at least we have the more inexperienced candidate at the bottom of our ticket, not the top. If you haven’t noticed, the MSM has given your candidate a total pass, refusing to ask him anything but puffball questions. Read the rest of my blog. Everything is backed up. Who do you envy? How is he getting to you? Have you lost your job because of union excesses? Or was it the subprime mortgage mess that you probably voted for?
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[...] Katie Couric denigrated Sarah Palin 12 hours ago [...]
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Was Katie Couric respectful of Govenor Palin in the way she asked the questions? No. But it does not change the fact that Palin was completely uncomfortable and unable to answer the questions that were asked. My personal favorite answer was…”Well I’ll get you some and bring ‘em to ya!” Come on….this is the best that the Republican ticket can come up with? It is not only laughable that she is their choice but also unbelieveable that folks who call themselves educated could possibly defend both she and McCain in his choice.
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[...] Katie Couric denigrated Sarah Palin 12 hours ago [...]
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Well, after that witty response…let me gather myself and “I’ll get back to ya!”
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Please do:)
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Lonely, puzzling reply, but better than the silence from passionate who has, as I anticipated, lost her/his voice when asked for specifics. Who do I envy? Not sure I understand that. No one I can think of offhand. McCain — who I would have been happy to vote for in any election since Bush-Gore — gets to me in this election by his refusal to answer questions. I’ve watched every interview since Saddleback and been disappointed by his new talent for bobbing and weaving. And for the creepy, slightly deranged smile. What’s happened to the old frank and defiant soldier I used to admire? I haven’t lost my job and haven’t held a union card since I was 19. And
I’ll be honest and admit that I can’t remember whether I voted for subprime or not. But if I did it was before the current mess, and voting for what seems like a good idea which later turns into a mess is something everyone has done at least once whether they admit it or not. Finally, I hope you watched last night’s Obama-McCain debate. Not a great night for either, but I’d rather have Obama’s grasp of the future than McCain’s commitment to the past.
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Andrew-I had comments mixed up. From my side they are one on top of another.
John McCain was not my choice in the primary. I did watch last night’s debate and I wrote about it. To get to my home page click on “lonely conservative” at the top of the page. I thought McCain did well on foreign policy. There was a lot I wished he said on the economy. Obama seemd like a robot and to be honest, I’m getting sick of both of them.
But I have to vote for McCain because I can never vote for someone who honestly believes I need politicians to help me live my life. I would like to keep a little more of my own money.
I wish one of them would stand up and tell the American people to take a good long look in the mirror. Who was taking out the subprime loans? Who was buying more and more luxury items while begging the government to pay for their needs? We can’t go on this way!
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She is running for VP! She should be able to handle an interview without sounding like that girl from the beauty pageant who so famously gaffed her way through the “Iraq and the China er, em, etc” speech.
Palin is an idiot and she needs to back out now if she knows what is good for McCain.
Who really believes this woman has any clue what to do in office.
A Reminder- She doesn’t- remember when she publicly admitted that?
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[...] Katie Couric denigrated Sarah Palin 13 hours ago [...]
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Susan, I have no idea what you’re talking about. But I would love to see Barack Obama and Joe Biden subjected to the same questions and the same attitude of the interviewers as Sarah Palin has been. Then we would have something to compare it to, wouldn’t we?
Go ahead and put your trust in the media that won’t look into how Obama was appointed to the CAC (terrorist Bill Ayers) or ask him about his campaign finance chair who led a failed bank using shady accounting practices. I could go on but you don’t want to hear anything bad about your Messiah!
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Lonely, it sounds like your idea of a great interview was Hannity’s grinning and coaxing. Did you think that Palin was going to go after the VP slot and only face smiling and softly cooing journalists who would never try to pin her down on her comments? Joe Biden has spent his whole life taking harder questions from journalists around the world who would have liked nothing better than to break him to pieces on live TV. While Obama was a project organizer in Chicago — and in the toughest part of Chicago where anyone from the government was in danger for their life no matter what party they supported or what race they belonged to — Sarah was out in never never land singing Talk To The Animals. She had a total honeymoon from the moment her candidacy was announced up until the Charles Gibson interview, which was extremely mild. Couric’s interview should have been easy. All the questions were ones that a candidate for the second highest office of the most powerful nation on earth should have been able to field. But the conservatives are upset because Katie didn’t smile constantly (how brutal) and because she tried, as a good journalist should, to get Palin to at least try and give somewhat specific answers once in awhile. I’ve watched presidential and VP debates since Kennedy-Nixon and have never seen or imagined such a badly prepared, uninformed and inarticulate candidate. This is no laughing matter.
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Andrew, do you mean maybe we expected questions like these:
How does it feel to break a glass ceiling?
How does it feel to win?
How does your family feel about your “winning” breaking a glass ceiling?
Who will be your VP?
Should you choose Hillary Clinton as VP?
Will you accept public finance?
What issues is your campaign about?
Will you visit Iraq?
Will you debate McCain at a town hall?
What did you think of your competitor’s [Clinton] speech?
Those were Charlie Gibson’s questions to BO. Really hard-hitting!
http://www.lonelyconservative.com/2008/09/12/proof-of-charlie-gibsons-bias/
And what was the big “gotcha” in Couric’s interview? That Sarah Palin doesn’t have specific examples of John McCain’s senatorial record?
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