(Todd and Sarah Palin w/ some of their children)
Look, I'm not gonna pussyfoot around on this issue, what Charlie Gibson did during his nationally televised interview with Sarah Palin the other night was a national disgrace. Period. ABC News scored a gigantic coup when it landed Palin and any responsible journalist would have taken the opportunity to ask her some relevant questions. Things like: How did you find time to stop the Typhoid Fever outbreak in your remote frontier village, while at the same time caring for, Babe, your giant blue ox? Or: It's been reported that you requested $400 million in federal earmarks to build a theme park called, Belviewood, in Adak based on the exploits of Lt. Belvedere James Frier IV. Do you think a flume ride called "The Milk Truck Ride to Nowhere" is the wisest use of our tax dollars? Should the federal government be asked to underwrite something called "The Naugahyde Round-Up Bumper Car Experience" while we are fighting two wars, suffering through an economic downturn, and our teenagers are getting knocked-up right and left ?
If the DW had been granted the first Palin interview, you can rest assured we would have gotten to the bottom of those issues...and more. Period. I mean, she keeps asking for federal funds, but Alaska has the most untapped resources of any state in the Union. Doesn't she know she's sitting on a goldmine? Anyway, the point is, our questions would have been tough, but fair, and the fact that she's a woman would never have crossed our minds. Period. What's the first thing on old Charlie's mind, though...bush! Bush, bush, bush, bush, bush. And not just bush..but, bush doctorin'! As far as I'm concerned that's between her and her gynecologist. Period. It got so bad, after a few minutes I couldn't help thinking about her bush, too. I actually found myself preparing my own list of questions about her bush...and I'm a liberal! First, I wondered if it was as wild and untamed as the Alaskan back-country, itself. Oh, God, and then I started thinking about her Alaskan back-country. That's the way the MSM gets these memes started. You start out trying to have a substantive discussion of the issues, but some hack journalist starts talking about bush and by the end of the day's news cycle you don't have any pants on.
Anyway, I'm surprised Mrs. Palin sat for it, I really am. Sometimes you can spout a bunch of sexist crap like that to a woman and get away with it, but if you try that while she's PMSing you'll be lucky if she doesn't cut your dick off. I'd say Charlie got lucky this time. She was clearly well-prepared and well-cooched by the McCain people. Period. I admired the trim of her jib through the whole thing, frankly.
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