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alliestoom


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make of it what you will...

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Palin vs.
Gibson, Round 1
The ABC News anchor flummoxes the GOP amateur.

By Jack Shafer
Posted Thursday, Sept.
11, 2008, at 9:44 PM ET


Without being smarmy about it or unfurling gotcha questions, ABC News anchor Charles Gibson demonstrated that he knows volumes more about national security and foreign policy than does Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.


In an on-location-in-Alaska interview that consumed 11 or 12 minutes ! (video) of the Thursday edition of World News Tonight and con tinues later tonight on Nightline and again tomorrow on World News Tonight and 20/20, Palin recited her answers as if reading from a Teleprompter inside her head. The extensive coaching she has received could not save her from embarrassment in this exchange.


Gibson: Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?

Palin: In what respect, Charlie?

Gibson (refusing to give her a hint): What do you interpret it to be?

Palin: His worldview?

Gibson: No, the Bush Doctrine, enunciated in September 2002, before the Iraq War.


Palin attempts to fake it for 25 seconds with a swirl of generalities before Gibson, showing all the gentleness of a remedial social studies teacher, interjects.


Gibson: The Bush Doctrine as I understand it is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense. That we have the right of a preemptive strike against any other country that we think is going to attack us.
! Do you agree with that?

Of course Palin agrees with the Bush Doctrine, but she can't come out and say so, having just admitted that she doesn't know it by name. At every point in the Q&A, Gibson had the right follow-up questions to elicit more from Palin, including after he asked the Bush Doctrine cringe-maker. He asks her to give thumbs up or down to the U.S. military's recent forays into Pakistan from Afghanistan. He asks her several ways. But she can't answer the question, and she won't dismiss it. Instead she slows the interview to a crawl again, dribbling and dribbling the ball but refusing to take the shot.


"I get lost in a blizzard of words there," Gibson says, his glasses riding the end of his nose, asking for a "yes" or a "no" again.
Palin finally expresses her view that the United States "has to exercise all options" to stop terrorists, making her reluctance to endorse a li'l cross-border thrust into Pakistan made by the commander-in-c! hief difficult to understand.


In asking about 30 questions, including follow-ups, he gets Palin to call for the inclusion of Georgia in NATO and commits the United States to waging war with Russia if Russia reinvades a NATOed Georgia. (I'm guessing Gibson's hypothetical assumed an invasion into parts of Georgia that Russia doesn't already occupy.)

Palin can't blame her muddled responses on Gibson, who treats her fairly and conducts himself professionally. Never mind about her not being ready to be president. She wasn't even ready for this interview.

-- Edited by alliestoom at 03:47, 2008-09-13

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I watched this interview. It was painful.

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I kind of wish that this post wasn't so incredibly biased toward one side.
Make no mistake, I have only the utmost respect for both Barack Obama and John McCain, as they both would make better presidents than I could ever dream to be.
But looking at an article like this, without having actually seen the interview, and with an ending note such as, "Palin can't blame her muddled responses on Gibson, who treats her fairly and conducts himself professionally. Never mind about her not being ready to be president. She wasn't even ready for this interview," really makes it an unfair and biased post to respond to accurately, especially when the poster's opinion was included IN THE POST.
I agree with both sides on different points, but when the topics are the poster's raw opinions and not questions of the RESPONDER'S opinions as they should be, it strays far away from being a neutral topic where everyone's stands are respected.
So, when I do form my own opinion about the interview, I'll go ahead and watch the interview before I read into this article.

P.S. "YOU'RE oh so lovely Mrs. Palin"

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patrickisoverrated wrote:

I kind of wish that this post wasn't so incredibly biased toward one side.
Make no mistake, I have only the utmost respect for both Barack Obama and John McCain, as they both would make better presidents than I could ever dream to be.
But looking at an article like this, without having actually seen the interview, and with an ending note such as, "Palin can't blame her muddled responses on Gibson, who treats her fairly and conducts himself professionally. Never mind about her not being ready to be president. She wasn't even ready for this interview," really makes it an unfair and biased post to respond to accurately, especially when the poster's opinion was included IN THE POST.
I agree with both sides on different points, but when the topics are the poster's raw opinions and not questions of the RESPONDER'S opinions as they should be, it strays far away from being a neutral topic where everyone's stands are respected.
So, when I do form my own opinion about the interview, I'll go ahead and watch the interview before I read into this article.

P.S. "YOU'RE oh so lovely Mrs. Palin"



 Not to derail the thread but she did actually mean "your" as in the candidate that YOU favor, not as in "you are lovely, Mrs. Palin"



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Alright, more power to my argument then.
The opinion is in the title as well as the thread.

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in reality, i don't think it is all that biased. if the circumstances were exatly the same, and she had given an amazing interview, the outcome would be different. if a republican were interviewing her the same way as this dude did, it would've also been the same. Palin is just not amazing as everyone thinks. she made her interview this way, not the guy interviewing her.

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patrickisoverrated wrote:

I kind of wish that this post wasn't so incredibly biased toward one side.
Make no mistake, I have only the utmost respect for both Barack Obama and John McCain, as they both would make better presidents than I could ever dream to be.
But looking at an article like this, without having actually seen the interview, and with an ending note such as, "Palin can't blame her muddled responses on Gibson, who treats her fairly and conducts himself professionally. Never mind about her not being ready to be president. She wasn't even ready for this interview," really makes it an unfair and biased post to respond to accurately, especially when the poster's opinion was included IN THE POST.
I agree with both sides on different points, but when the topics are the poster's raw opinions and not questions of the RESPONDER'S opinions as they should be, it strays far away from being a neutral topic where everyone's stands are respected.
So, when I do form my own opinion about the interview, I'll go ahead and watch the interview before I read into this article.

P.S. "YOU'RE oh so lovely Mrs. Palin"



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Oh, the bush doctrine! That's right up there with the Monroe and the Truman doctrines! Give me a break. If Gibson had asked "what are your views on the policy that we have the right to attack a country we believe to be a threat to our national security?", you would have gotten whatever answer she gave after the 25 seconds of talking in circles. I'm just saying she obviously had an opinion on the subject, so whats a formal title that no one but people trying to feel smart use? If Gibson was interested in getting her viewpoint on the issue instead of trying to show he wasn't just a nightly news talking head he could have just "given her the hint".

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i agree with patrick. we're supposed to be responding to unbiased reports, not people's personal opinions.

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yeah i pretty much agree with everyone.
and plus, we all know how allie stuhlmueller feels about sarah palin and we've discussed this in class.

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This is SO slanted. Post it from a neutral position next time.

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MCCAIN
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