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kenmabmcc
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 Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:16 pm Post subject: Palin says Katie Couric interviews were 'unfair' |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/sarahpalin/3...444/Sar
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Mrs Palin gave several interviews to the CBS News anchorwoman Katie Couric - known for her unaggressive interviewing technique - in which she struggled to answer questions about foreign and economic policy.
The interviews caused alarm among some conservative pundits, who believed the Alaska governor looked out of her depth. |
Putin would make her into dog meat..
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pasquanel
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 8:23 am Post subject: |
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| Come on Ken the Couric piece was a couple hours of recording cut and reduced to six minutes
the motive was clearly to show her in the worst light possible and it did.
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mommabear
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:32 am Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| pasquanel wrote: |
Come on Ken the Couric piece was a couple hours of recording cut and reduced to six minutes
the motive was clearly to show her in the worst light possible and it did. |
Did she not ask Biden the same questions? I've seen some clips showing their answers side by side. I believe the Biden interviews were to be covered this past week, but I couldn't watch it. Our cable company has stopped showing CBS while negotiating the contract with them. So I'll have to wait for youtube. But I think I'm correct that Biden will also be covered.
Worst light? If CBS did that deliberately, then explain to us why Palin is still being sequestered from any new interviews, ie on the Sunday news talk shows, after such a "brilliant" debate performance. |
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pasquanel
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:20 am Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| edited video is just that edited you only saw a fraction of the interview the debate was live and uncut and the lady did fine. |
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ejward
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:43 pm Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| pasquanel wrote: |
| edited video is just that edited you only saw a fraction of the interview the debate was live and uncut and the lady did fine. |
But the same questions were asked to Biden. Are you saying that they edited both Biden and Palin's interviews so that only the questions that Palin screwed up were in there? Then why did they put in some of the Palin questions that she answered well? She didn't screw up ALL the questions. |
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mommabear
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 4:08 pm Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| She didn't screw up ALL the questions. |
If by "She" you mean Palin, (not Couric screwing up the questions), then Palin did fine, as pasquanel stated. But the difference between the two venues is the telling component.
For the debate, Palin was coached on how to respond to various subjects and talking points. Nothing wrong with that. But it is what it is, and she accomplished her mission.
The debate format was in stark contrast to the questions asked by Couric. Palin does not know enough in her gut-mind to answer questions spontaneously and coherently. Is she stupid? No. But it does show that she is woefully unprepared to be VP. Maybe 50 years ago when the world was less complicated, she'd be okay. But not now. Not in these times. |
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ejward
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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For the debate, Palin was coached on how to respond to various subjects and talking points. Nothing wrong with that. But it is what it is, and she accomplished her mission.
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Did you see the deabte on CNN? They had a little "Recation guage" on the screen controlled by undecided voters. Every time she used one of the talking points, the meter took a dive. Every time she said the word "Mavrick" it instantly took a dive and took a while to recover. |
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pasquanel
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 6:06 pm Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| The original post was about the Couric piece not the debate. |
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kenmabmcc
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 6:40 pm Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| pasquanel wrote: |
| The original post was about the Couric piece not the debate. |
Yes she proved again in the debate that unless she had talking points and a relentless grin, she had no idea of how to answer the questions.
Joe debated the questions..
..Palin waffled...
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ejward
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 6:44 pm Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| pasquanel wrote: |
| The original post was about the Couric piece not the debate. |
You were the one that brought up the debate. Should I have pointed out what this thread is about to you? |
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mommabear
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 8:55 pm Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| "In those Katie Couric interviews I did feel that there were a lot of things that she was missing in terms of an opportunity to ask what a VP candidate stands for," she said. |
As near as I can tell, this article you posted was after the debate. So only now she complains about Couric?
Why didn't she tell Couric that at the time? Reporters usually jump at any opportunity to let their subject to speak off the cuff. But anyway, is the person being interviewed supposed to approve the questions beforehand? I don't think so. If that was the case, no reporters would bother with any candidate.
I think it was just an effort on her part to make some excuse for the stark differences in her abilities to speak off the cuff vs a structured environment that she had to prepare for.
And then there's always this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA15XU23kEc
Sarah needs to practice what she preaches. |
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ejward
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:03 pm Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| mommabear wrote: |
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| "In those Katie Couric interviews I did feel that there were a lot of things that she was missing in terms of an opportunity to ask what a VP candidate stands for," she said. |
As near as I can tell, this article you posted was after the debate. So only now she complains about Couric?
Why didn't she tell Couric that at the time? Reporters usually jump at any opportunity to let their subject to speak off the cuff. But anyway, is the person being interviewed supposed to approve the questions beforehand? I don't think so. If that was the case, no reporters would bother with any candidate.
I think it was just an effort on her part to make some excuse for the stark differences in her abilities to speak off the cuff vs a structured environment that she had to prepare for.
And then there's always this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA15XU23kEc
Sarah needs to practice what she preaches. |
Or this one where she says she's willing to play "Stump the canidate"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvzim5rCeFw |
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ejward
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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I'm starting to think her questioning was skewed to favor Palin. She asked her about other Supreme Court decisions she has disagreed with. Here's a statement from Palin in June in regards to the Supreme Court's decision to lower the amount of damages that Exxon should pay for the Valdese spill. Which happened in Alaska ..... which she commented on....
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Public officials in Alaska are reacting strongly to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday to slash the $2.5 billion damage award to Alaska fishermen to $508 million, nearly 20 years after the Exxon Valdez disaster. . . .
Gov. Sarah Palin [said,] “I am extremely disappointed with today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court,” Palin said. “While the decision brings some degree of closure to Alaskans suffering from 19 years of litigation and delay, the court gutted the jury’s decision on punitive damages.”
Palin added, “It is tragic that so many Alaska fishermen and their families have had their lives put on hold waiting for this decision. My heart goes out to those affected, especially the families of the thousands of Alaskans who passed away while waiting for justice.”
Palin said the decision today undercut one of the principal legs of deterrence for those engaged in maritime shipping in Alaska waters. She called on state and federal agencies to be vigilant and firm in regulating such activities.
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mommabear
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| I'm starting to think her questioning was skewed to favor Palin. |
I think overall, they were just good general questions that anyone in politics should have been able to answer. Everyone might not agree with her answers, but at least we'd be left with a sense of where Palin is coming from.
I didn't think of this til now, but maybe Couric knew about the Alaska ruling and she was actually trying to help Palin out with a little extra prodding to think of another one. At least for that one subject, since the interview was going so badly in just about every other respect.
But I don't think that the questions were necessarily skewed to favor Palin, since Biden was asked the same questions too. |
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ejward
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 7:27 am Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| mommabear wrote: |
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| I'm starting to think her questioning was skewed to favor Palin. |
I didn't think of this til now, but maybe Couric knew about the Alaska ruling and she was actually trying to help Palin out with a little extra prodding to think of another one. At least for that one subject, since the interview was going so badly in just about every other respect.
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That's what I'm saying. She must have known about the statement Palin made over the summer so she asked her something she thought was a really easy question. |
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pasquanel
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 9:47 am Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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Joe debated the questions..
..Palin waffled... |
Perhaps she should take lessons from old Joe the pathological liar!
Snappy answers are easy when yo make them up on demand with no regard for the truth
Joe Biden and the Truth By Jack Kelly
Joe Biden and the Truth
By Jack Kelly
"All you have to do is go down Union street with me in Wilmington or go to Katie's Restaurant or walk into Home Depot with me where I spend a lot of time and you ask anybody whether or not the economic and foreign policy of this administration has made them better off in the last eight years," said Sen. Joe Biden in the vice presidential debate to bolster his assertion he's in touch with the concerns of the middle class.
That answer suggested otherwise.
"It came as a surprise to us in Delaware that Joe Biden recently had a meal and talked with patrons at Katie's Restaurant on Union Street in Wilmington," said an email to National Review Online.
"Katie's Restaurant closed years ago. It was on Scott Street in Little Italy."
The people who fill up at his neighborhood gas station can't pay for a full tank of gas, Sen. Biden said. Sen. Biden lives in a 7,000 square foot estate on a four acre lakefront lot in Greenville, which is described as "northern Delaware's priciest area."
Sen. Biden says things which are not true with passionate conviction.
I believe that is the definition of pathological liar |
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xavierx
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 1:04 pm Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| Biden's lies, both before and during this campaign, are numerous and well documented. But the media likes the liberal Democrat, so they downplay them ("oh, that's just Joe") or ignore them. |
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ejward
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 1:22 pm Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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So, he spends a lot of time in Home Depot. He mentioned a resturant that is now closed, it doesn't mean he's never been there. He didn't say he was there yesterday.
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The people who fill up at his neighborhood gas station can't pay for a full tank of gas, Sen. Biden said. Sen. Biden lives in a 7,000 square foot estate on a four acre lakefront lot in Greenville, which is described as "northern Delaware's priciest area."
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What he said was "local gastation". Does that mean at home, in DC, or where the debate was?
As far as living in Delaware's priciest area goes ... I'm sure most Senators do. When Palin referred to herself as middle-class in the debate, I wish Biden pointed out that she is a multi-millionaire. |
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ejward
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 1:25 pm Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| xavierx wrote: |
| Biden's lies, both before and during this campaign, are numerous and well documented. But the media likes the liberal Democrat, so they downplay them ("oh, that's just Joe") or ignore them. |
And referring to a resturant that's closed and about a conversation with a friend about the price of gas are by far two of the nastiest cases of lying I have ever heard of in my life. I wonder how many lives were lost because of these two lives.  |
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xavierx
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 2:09 pm Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| ejward wrote: |
| xavierx wrote: |
| Biden's lies, both before and during this campaign, are numerous and well documented. But the media likes the liberal Democrat, so they downplay them ("oh, that's just Joe") or ignore them. |
And referring to a resturant that's closed and about a conversation with a friend about the price of gas are by far two of the nastiest cases of lying I have ever heard of in my life. I wonder how many lives were lost because of these two lives. |
You're right, those two lies aren't big. But he's had plenty of them that were - like claiming that he supports Clean Coal days after saying that there is no such thing, like claiming that he's a coal miner, stealing other people's speeches and papers, etc. The list is long, but always ignored.
As for the "people died" line - what alleged lie has Palin told that killed people? I must have missed that one. |
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