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| Palin: Media goes easy on Kennedy |
| 2009-01-09 |
| Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) believes Caroline Kennedy is getting softer press treatment in her pursuit of the New York Senate seat than Palin did as the GOP vice presidential nominee because of Kennedy’s social class. “I’ve been interested to see how Caroline Kennedy will be handled and if she will be handled with kid gloves or if she will be under such a microscope,” Palin told conservative filmmaker John Ziegler during an interview Monday for his upcoming documentary film, “How Obama Got Elected.” Excerpts from the interview were posted on YouTube Wednesday evening. “It’s going to be interesting to see how that plays out and I think that as we watch that we will perhaps be able to prove that there is a class issue here also that was such a factor in the scrutiny of my candidacy versus, say, the scrutiny of what her candidacy may be.” Palin said she remains subject to unfair press coverage of her and her family. “Is it political? Is it sexism?” she asked. “What is it that drives someone to believe the worst and perpetuate the worst in terms of gossip and lies?” She observed that Katie Couric and Tina Fey have been “capitalizing on” and “exploiting” her. “I did see that Tina Fey was named entertainer of the year and Katie Couric’s ratings have risen,” she said. “And I know that a lot of people are capitalizing on, oh I don’t know, perhaps some exploiting that was done via me, my family, my administration. That’s a little bit perplexing, but it also says a great deal about our society.” The Alaska governor said that when she sees some of the coverage of her daughter Bristol especially “the momma grizzly rises up in me.” Looking back on the Couric interviews, Palin said she knew things were not going well after their first session and asked the McCain campaign to pull the plug on the remaining sit downs but insisted the campaign made her go through with the rest. “I knew it didn’t go well the first day, and then we gave her a couple of other segments after that. And my question to the campaign was, after it didn’t go well the first day, why were we going to go back for more?” she said. “Because of however it works in that upper echelon of power brokering in the media and with spokespersons, it was told to me that, yeah, we are going to go back for more. And going back for more was not a wise decision either.” Palin criticized Couric for the way CBS “spliced it together,” saying that “so many of the topics brought up were not portrayed as accurately as they could have, should have, been.” She also expressed frustration with Couric’s characterization of her since the interviews. After being shown a clip of Couric complaining to David Letterman that no post-election interviewer has asked Palin why she would not tell the CBS anchor what newspapers she reads, the Alaska governor responded: “Because, Katie, you’re not the center of everybody’s universe.” Meeeow... |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #15 McCain had a chance to fight for the people to stop the first bailout. At least for enough time for the public to see how we got here. But, no, he cozied up to all the other senate crooks and went for it. He is just Senate business as usual. Opensecrets.org has the top contributors from 2003 to 2008 to McCain. Read it and weep. He is part of the problem. Merrill Lynch $370,020 Citigroup Inc $305,151 Morgan Stanley $264,277 Goldman Sachs $255,645 JPMorgan Chase & Co $221,457 |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2009-01-09 21:36 |
| #14 I think Sarah gooned it; by opening her mouth to make this statement she only opened herself up for more lebtard criticism, along the lines of 'she can dish it out but can't take it.' would have been better to let others make that kid glove statement and she remain aloof. 2012 is only ( consults calendar) too far away. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2009-01-09 15:43 |
| #13 Don't complain, C.Fool, I live in HI - talk about a wasted vote. Have I mentioned that I really don't like the electoral college - winner take all thing.... |
| Posted by: Grampaw Thomomble3779 2009-01-09 15:17 |
| #12 Don't blame me - I didn't get a vote. By the time the primaries got to my state it was all but over. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-01-09 14:46 |
| #11 You might have misjudged Romney, Steve. I am absolutely certain Romney would have been about 100 times more effective than McCain when the financial crisis hit and he had a significant ground operation ramping up in the West and elsewhere. I was under the impression that McCain was taking Romney's advice while he was making various decisions during the crisis, i.e. suspending his campaign, etc. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-01-09 14:41 |
| #10 "You name another Republican anywhere in this country that would have done that well." Fred Thompson. If he'd decided to actually run. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-01-09 14:15 |
| #9 Don't blame me. I voted for Fred. |
| Posted by: Mizzou Mafia 2009-01-09 14:10 |
| #8 You might have misjudged Romney, Steve. I am absolutely certain Romney would have been about 100 times more effective than McCain when the financial crisis hit and he had a significant ground operation ramping up in the West and elsewhere. But no one can do more than guess at this point. All I can say is that I regard my contributions to McCain/Palin as a huge waste of money I really needed for other things. |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-01-09 14:09 |
| #7 Dr. Steve, no matter the topic, you always seem, to me, to be the voice of moderation. Do ya hafta have that to be a Moderator? Keep it up! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2009-01-09 13:11 |
| #6 The tired old man got 46% of the vote on Election Day in spite of the Obama tsunami. You name another Republican anywhere in this country that would have done that well. Not Romney. Please. Not Huckabee. Not even close. Not Guiliani. I can't think of a single one. Sure McCain wasn't anyone's favorite. He hung in there nicely and was a point or two ahead in mid-September, right as the current economic 'crisis' broke (how convenient for Obama and all kudos to Mr. Soros). So laugh at and pick on the old man, it's easy. Just remember, he's the one who brought us to the dance. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-01-09 12:21 |
| #5 Or maybe because the dinosaurs of the RNC think this is still the 1950s and operate as such. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-01-09 11:41 |
| #4 I think some of early open primaries where Dems went for McCain kept him in, otherwise I don't think he would have even been on the radar. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2009-01-09 11:31 |
| #3 How McCain got the nomination was quite overt. Huckabee deliberately and openly stayed in long enough to draw votes away from Romney. In fact, he went further - he ran ads that were intended to incite evangelicals in the South to see Romney as religiously toxic, then threw his support openly to McCain right before the relevant primaries. Nasty piece of work, Huckabee. |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-01-09 11:01 |
| #2 True, McCain was everyone's LAST pick up till the very end. I have no idea how he got his foot in the door. And I don't care who disagrees with me, he WAS too old. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2009-01-09 10:56 |
| #1 Set up by McPain, eh ? Where is the little shit now ? Quiet as a church mouse. A worn out has been just like Jimmy the Peanut. Did you notice how he was shunted off to the side, the other day in the White House. No one wanted any lip from that dipshit. Same with McPain. Done for. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2700 2009-01-09 09:34 |