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And, as Robert Baird points out, she doesn’t even seem to know what a “doctrine” is, a la Monroe or Truman. When will people quit picking on the Republican vice presidential nominee for her complete lack of acquaintance with American history and current affairs? SHE WAS A MAYOR, YOU KNOW, WITH A LOT OF RESPONSIBILITIES. [digital emunction/YouTube]
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“Doctrine” is one of those elitist, liberal, East Coast words.
They don’t need no doctrine in Alasky!
“Uh, the doctrine, such as, the Iraq, such as, yadda yadda.”
I love this better than “Cats”! I’d see it again and again!
Damn right. See if the “community organizer” could get potholes fixed or a storm drain unclogged or some crappy left wing books banned!
wallythepug: Exactly what I was thinking!
We desperately need a mash-up of Miss Carolina (”the Iraq”) and Palin’s Bush Doctrine answer…
I have no skills to make that happen, but surely someone does?
Well, she’s No Dan Quayle.
Gee, her snarky, mocking tone seems to have left her. Now she’s got more of a “deer in the headlights” thing going.
It’s like they gave her one talking point and pushed her onstage: whatever it takes/Isalamic extremists/our allies/America. She looks like a moose caught in sniper scope. I love that she starts to freak out and Charlie Gibson stays calm. I mean, Charlie Gibson will always be a prick for the Flag Pin Debate, but he pushed her a little, which was more that I expected from him.
He asked if you agreed with it….. WELL??… YES OR NO… simple word
teklanika:
We desperately need a mash-up of Miss Carolina (”the Iraq”) and Palin’s Bush Doctrine answer…
I was going to do the “Bush Doctrine” vs. “Miss Teen South Carolina” vs. “Bush on Tribal Sovereignty.” Maybe I’ll do it if I can steal the time… who am I kidding… I’ve got nothing but time!
She lived next door to a doctor, so she has experience with doctorin’, but not that Bush doctorin’. The guy was a podiatrist, not a–wait, doctrine? Scratch that.
“Well which part of the Bush Doctrine, Charlie? If I might call you “Charlie.” And those are some nice shoes. Todd might like a pair of shoes like those. Did you get them from Payless? We have Payless up here, but Todd still seems like Sears better, even though I’ve told him a thousand times that Payless is just as good and a bargain, besides! Oh. Where were we?”
When she looks into my eyes and starts slowly nodding her head in agreement, I forget what she’s talking about. She’s so hypnotic. Wow, women are great. She’s going to be the bestest ever VP. If she gets Putin in a room, he’ll be selling the rest of Russia for 2 cents an acre. That would be so great.
The only Iraq she knows about is the Camaro that the driller drove in High school… bitchin’!
One thing the Mayor of Wasilla will not be used to….the gruelling campaign schedule.
I say another week of being locked up with Rove’s coaching team and then being thrown to the masses, and she will be swallowing Xanax like Altoids and crying into her pillow at night.
I realize this may be construed as a sexist nightmare, but I’m pretty sure I’d do the same if I have to play bad cop to McCain’s good cop day in and day out.
Serolf Divad: FTW!!!
Yes! That mashup will be straw that breaks the proverbial camel’s back of the WALNUTS!/Glasses! campaign.
Long before this whole ‘Brazilian wax’ thing became popular,
I had a very impressive ‘Bush Doctrine’!
Invade!
NoWireHangers: That, and “not blinking” at anything.
She thought Charlie said “Bush Dicktrain”, which is a secksy secks game they play in Wasilla…
In the pause after the question is the great whoosh of the Alaskan landscape where people don’t live, but evil wolves must be destroyed from helicopters.
Incidentally, just like Dubya, when she doesn’t know something she sits up, speaks louder, and gets even more emphatic. As if, how dare you ask me this, don’t you see how determined I am? In the great ‘Merican wasteland stubbornness=thought, evidence of leadership. And that works, if it’s 1882.
It looks like her poker tell is the lip liking and repeating the
interviewer’s name. Man, does she look completely out of her comfort
zone…like ten pounds of clueless in a 5 pound bag.
Serolf Divad: Is “Bush on Tribal Sovereignty” the one where he does all the weird dancing? Or am I mixing that up with some other epic fail of his?
…and this is AFTER coaching.
Apparently, you don’t have to be smart to be the governor of Alaska.
She looks like she lost 10 lbs since the convention. Not only are they filling her shell-like ears with New American Century gibberish, they’re also starving her.
Serolf Divad: That would be beyond perfect. If you can provide such a thing, you will officially be my hero for life, as well as winning a solid handful of whore diamonds!
So what the hell is with her non-flag pin pin? Is that some kind of Alaskan sepratist flag or alien control device? Let’s call her out on it.
I … I just couldn’t finish it. It got just too embarrassing watching her try to BS her way out of the paper sack Gibson had dropped her in.
I think you’re right about that tell, jodyleek. I noticed it too.
Serolf Divad: Fun-tastic. I can’t wait.
ph7: Haha. Rove doesn’t have a coaching team. Rove doesn’t know what the Bush Doctrine is, either. He’s too busy trying to figure out ways to prove that Barry is a Muslim. Also, to ensure that black people don’t get to vote this election.
Anyway, I’m sure Cindy will be happy to share her Xanax supply.
regisgoat: Cindy’s sharing her “diet” pills.
You Secksists with your “women don’t know about stuffs.” Sarah Palin is a beautiful, intelligent angel sent here to destroy us all.
…why does she need a doctrine when she has Jesus?!?!
We really need our next president to be a man or a woman of the people. We should open the contest up to anyone who might want to do it. Everyone could buy a ticket with a nine-digit number on it. Then we could rig a row of glass boxes with ping-pong balls bouncing around in them and we could select our next president by lottery. Nothing contrived at all! That would bring a much-needed fresh perspective to the White House, and the world would love us because of how much we love jes’ plain folks.
Then we could pick our presidents just like the Republicans apparently pick their vice presidents. Power to the people!
Bush on tribal sovereignty:
Bush
Miss Teen South Carolina:
Miss Teen South Carolina.
And of course, the video above.
Something tells me that phone calls from journalists requesting interviews will get a “Sorry, Sarah can’t play right now. She’s got homework to do” response from now on.
I hate the way she says Charlie.
shortsshortsshorts: You’re back! Did they ban you? Are you back on your meds?
…frankly I’m surprised that she didn’t prop her legs open like Sharon Stone in “Basic Instinct” when he asked her that question, hoping to throw him off! Isn’t that what they teach you beauty pageant school?
I think what I appreciated most about the interview was how Charlie actually seemed startled to realize she didn’t know what he was talking about, and how often she said his name. Like one of them ol’ fashioned 976 operators.
Christ on a cracker. I go away for a few days and come back to the TFC’s (Total Fucking Cunt’s) war with Russia and this ignorant snowbilly shit. McNasty needs to hurry up and have that stroke.
Actual blog post from David Frum at National Review:
She’s under-informed and over-confident.
But there was no “macaca” moment, so she survives.
Those who wish to believe in her will continue to believe in her.
As for the rest - well it’s a 6 in 7 chance that McCain makes it to the end of his first term. That’s pretty good!
bwaahahh…somebody kill me
Everytime she opens her mouth, she seems to be saying, “Fuck you, Charlie. Fuck. You.” a blizzard of fuck yous.
Cogito Ergo Bibo: …in Alaska “Diet Pills” = Meth!
gurukalehuru: You certainly don’t have to be smart to be governness of Alaska. You just redistribute payments from the oil companies and Uncle Ted — either directly, through the “Permanent Fund,” or indirectly, through big pork projects. No wonder they love her!
Plus, if there was ever a chance of her making anyone feel inadequate, it’s over now. She’s just like me! I’ll shoot a moose with Sarah any time!
jodyleek: If you have tattooed your lips, is it more delicious to lick them? Where are those Alaskan cosmotologists when you need them. But, since they are scientists, can’t be trusted.
StewPie: +2
Does she think that if she just keeps calling him by name we’ll be so distracted that we forget she has no idea what she’s talking about? It kind of worked; I mean, I started thinking of Charlie the Unicorn and Candy Mountain…but that’s the beautiful thing about Democracy, Charrrlie. Come to Candy Mountain, Charrrrlie…
Borat: As Palin is a pitbull with lipstick, we can properly assess that her tattoo tastes of blood and she should probably be put down.
shortsshortsshorts: welcome back. i was very confused about the ‘debate’ yesterday.
GAH. The stupid. It hurts, Chaarly.
gurukalehuru: I suppose it does take a lot of coaching and intelligence to give a nationally televised interview on Life, The Universe and Everything…but the tragically ironic thing about all of this is that it’s impossible to stick to hard-right views and still have a modicum of intelligent discourse. I know that I would need serious coaching on how to answer specific interviewer questions, but I also know that I would give answers devoid of the words “hell-bent” or “terrorists.”
“A blizzard of words”
Haha irony.
I think they should have just given her one answer to any question she might have to field.
“Start a thermo-nuclear war.”
It’s easy to remember and tests well with the base.
Even Charlie Gibson has changing definitions of what the Bush doctrine is, as do a host of ABC commentators: http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/09/what_exactly_is_the_bush_doctr.asp
What she should have said — “Charlie, Bush is such a dumb idiot that anything he said can’t hardly be called a doctrine, right Charlie? Eh?”
AngryBlakGuy: Remember in 2000 when they asked Bush who his favorite philosopher was , and he said, “Jeebus”?
Ah, good times. It’s all worked out so well! Oil at $100 a barrel, perpetual war for Haliburton stockholders, and no more pussy “rights” to “trials.”
NoWireHangers: Jim Newell is a gentleman and a scholar, and I am in awe that so many folks can have faith in an avatar depicting an article of clothing. You all are my whore diamonds, except Canmon, who is not funny, like at all.
The Bush Doctrine is obviously sexist.
Did McCain just pick this square-jawed zombie-eyed non-blinker to make up for the fact he blinks like an old flourescent light about to putz out?
I guess that would make it a balanced ticket.
Sheesh. Palin’s Policy: Talk loudly and carry Bush’s stick.
gurukalehuru: By Bush foreign policy gurus, for fucks sake. You mean, they didn’t teach her this in the first hour? I guess it’s hard to cram 10 years of reasonable experience into a week, but that’s why most people would nominate qualified people for VeeP. Not WALNUTS, though…..like Dubya, he goes with his gut, and lies like a cheap rug when thing go to hell.
The worst part of this, the current talking point of “Joe and Josephine Middle America won’t care about this” experience gap is probably right. Even after 8 years of a Presidential Moron, people still want a president they can relate to. We a re fucked, unless the Dems can get record numbers of registered voters to the polls.
I’m a bigger fan of the Cheney Doctrine which is basically just “fuck off and die.”
“Do you mind if I call you Charle?”
Do mind if I call you witless?
Sheesh.
“Do you mind if I call you Charle?”
Do you mind if I call you witless?
shortsshortsshorts: Can we add Political Addict: to the list of unfunnies?
And please Shorts, go easy on Barbie from now on.
shortsshortsshorts: Hi! Yay!
and
Kevotron?
The Maverick formerly known as KevoTron. So?
Bush=Palin
Palin=Bush
Gov. Gidget Doctrine: Speak teh stoopid and rely on teh sexy magicness.
Gopherit v2.0: We’re not fucked, we’re just kindove getting a reach-around at this point. Barry’s going to win or be sent to gitmo, where he belongs.
To be fair, I don’t think Bush knows what the Bush Doctrine is either.
She has tons of credit. That whole Wassila Meth-Hopped-Up-Skunk-Terrorizing-The-Median Debacle of ‘94 required serious executive judgment. Fortunately, she made the right one, and a mayor who can determine it’s best to take out a pole cat all junked up on the trailer coke with a .22 and not a 30/06 is perfectly equipped to lead this country forever.
Wow, gone from Wonkette for 36 hours and this is what happens in the news? Oh, joy. All the good shit happens while I’m at work.
It’s amazing to me that so many pundits and such are trying to defend this pathetic excuse at political interviewing, as if they’re so proud that Glasses! didn’t urinate all over herself like Will Sasso in that Mad TV episode Comedy Central reruns every other day. The problem being is, I’M PRETTY SURE SHE DID. That’s why she was leaning forward every time Gibson “hardballed” her (which means, asked her a question she couldn’t respond to with talking points).
shortsshortsshorts: Actually, I find Canmon HYSTERICAL, in the exact same way that I find the above video clip hysterical.
ZippyDee: I don’t get it. So what?
In her defense the “Bush Doctrine” stands for whatever Bush wants it to stand for whenever he wants it. How can anyone know the hamsterish mind of George Bush?
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
rockstarjoe: Sure he does. Isn’t he the guy at Bethesda who saved him from the pretzel?
Why is that MSM hack attacking Christians?
Serolf Divad: Oh that old gem! Man. Gotta love the classics. Thanks for posting the link.
AngryBlakGuy: …in Alaska “Diet Pills” = Meth!
That explains a lot. Hope she hid her stash really well. Cindy can be pretty resourceful in finding that stuff.
Sire Says: right on, right on, my friend
Moose in headlights.
I still think the better part of this train wreck interview is the war with Russia part. While she’d be busy amassing a ground invasion force at Point Barrow, Putin would simply stop selling oil in dollars and demand payment in Euros. Iran would quickly follow. The ensuing dollar collapse would take us down before the TFC could get off a shot.
But I’m sure she’s the kind that asks the clerks, “How much is that in real money?” while shopping during her extensive trips to foreign lands.
I can haz economic collapse?
so here’s a picture about the impending Ike catastrophe , but it kind of spoke to me about the election. Crazy ass killer storm smashing into your world, stand there like a dumbass and wave the flag.
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Hurricane-Ike/ss/events/us/091208hurricaneike#photoViewer=/080912/photos_ts/2008_09_12t122013_450×300_us_storm_ike
if she says “terrorists hell bent on destroying america” one more time, i’m gonna have to donate more money to barry hussein.
Hopefully Walnuts doesn’t see this video. She says “Charlie” a little too much. Lt. McCain my start having flashbacks and think he’s back in Nam.
shortsshortsshorts: …either I’m suffering from a another alcohol induced black out or I am the most un-observant human being on the planet. Did you go somewhere?
Cogito Ergo Bibo: Youtube it right away. There was no literal dancing, just Bush having NO CLUE what the word sovereignty means and trying to “BS [his] way out of the paper sack” he was dropped in by the reporter. It’s a classic.
Now watch this.
http://www.wcsh6.com/video/default.aspx?maven_playerId=immersiveplayer&maven_referralObject=850878100
It turns out that Media Matters itself thinks there is no clear explanation of what the Bush doctrine is. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801080001
AngryBlakGuy: I was justifiably fired, but received an adequate compensation package.
time to send the puppet back to veep camp.
The Maverick formerly known as KevoTron: Yes, exactly!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SypeZjeOrY4
Smug. It’s like she’s pursuing every woman’s husband/boyfriend, and the same women cheer her for it.
Vanity Smurf: I think this was the best part:
GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions, particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of the state give you?
PALIN: They’re our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.
GIBSON: What insight does that give you into what they’re doing in Georgia?
He had to ask the question twice, cuz just maybe, she confused “insight” with “in sight.” Are you fucking kidding me?
Gibson: Mr. WadISay, what do you think of Einstein’s theory of relative.
Me: Charlie, I think relatives are very important, and I want to strengthen families, Charlie, and those are the positions I’m going to pursue in the next four years.
Gibson [Does Aflac duck style double take]
Charlie Gibson: Governor Palin, a follow-up to the question about the Bush Doctrine. Where do you stand on the issue of Updoc?
Sarah Palin: What’s updoc?
You all are so hateful. Palin obviously has her mind on separating Alaska from Imperial Tyrants like George Bush and his “doctrines,” and then invading Russia.
Once she reigns over an Alaska returned to its historical borders, she can then turn her eyes south and worry about Bush and his doctrines.
WadISay: speaking of Aflac, wouldn’t you love to see Gilbert Godfrey do a Palin Family Version of The Aristocrats!?
Gopherit v2.0: Having binoculars and staring into someone’s bedroom does not make you an expert on foreign policy, but it does arguable make you CURIOUS about it.
Political Addict: Turns out that Media Matters are the true patriots, unlike Charlie Gibson, who is a pinhead. And a fag.
I’ll never forget watching Bush detailing his doctrine. You could barely see Cheney’s lips moving as Bush sat on his fist.
Political Addict: Call me picky, but one of these days I think it would be so fun to have legislators and leaders who know almost as much about laws and policies as media people. And at least these media dudes knew enough about it to discuss it rationally.
Gibson could’ve punked her bigtime and said it was Bush’s health plan and it would have been divine to see her worm out of it. No question she would have done so to the satisfaction of her adoring minions. And then your media guys would have all been wrong, because she would have redefined it to health policy forever and ever. Amen.
Look at it this way. It took his father’s foreign policy team almost two years to stuff some of this stuff in W’s head before the 2000 election. And as bad as he is, he at least went to Yale and Harvard, albeit with a “C” average.
Miss Wasilla Northern Idaho Junior College, Basketball Camp and Hunting School (or wherever she finally graduated)? We’re lucky she can say foreign policy in two weeks.
I need another drink.
Thanks to SnowTwat I now know that, come November, our tanks will roll into Russia. This is pay-back Boris, for invading us in Red Dawn!
subrosa: fucking win. that was perfect
irisheyes: Why do hurricanes hate America?
ZippyD: HA! Good call! I’m suffering from an epic fucking hangover and I’m a little slow today.
Political Addict: Wow, I wonder if they can surgically remove your head when it’s so firmly planted up your ass without killing you. Good luck with that.
Gopherit v2.0: I saw the shores of Venezuela once on a cruise. Do you think I could go straighten things out with Hugo Chavez? She scares me…..
The Maverick formerly known as KevoTron: Hey man, you have recently undergone a name change. That’s gotta hurt. Rest up, Bro.
Gibson: What would be the most important qualification of a Secretary of State?
Palin: Type 55 w.p.m. with no mistakes.
Gibson: And Secretary of Labor?
Palin: As someone who’s been in labor a few times, I can say that being a woman is all the qualification anyone needs.
Remember when McCain’s pick of Palin was hilarious? Now it seems like an awful awful dream. Please tell me that I am not the only one freaking about what will happen if he actually wins this thing?
Lionel Hutz Esq.: I agree! Let’s see more alaskan-centric questioning! It’s obvious that she has no idea about what goes on in the “lower 48.” Play to her strengths; ask her what happens when you try to mayor for an unorganized community!
she’s literally hellbent on not blinking…
Watching someone who hasn’t studied the actions of someone who hasn’t studied the actions of anyone else who was ever President makes my brain feel oily and sour with stupidness.
MargeSimpsonsBlackFriend:
Fret not. The McFailins will expose their incompetence more and more.
You know her internal monologue was something like:
“Doctrine? Oh, blessed Jesus preserve me–what the heckito does that mean? It sounds like ‘doctor’, but it also kind of sounds like ‘latrine’… it must have something to do hygene, I guess. Yup yup. Ok, but what’s that got to do with Bush? Or maybe he doesn’t mean Bush the president, but the ALASKAN bush? Yup yup, praise Jesus that’s got to be it!”
“Charlie, I fully support the responsibe use of our wild and natural environment, and I have always agreed with the notion that you should leave a campsite cleaner than you found it, yup yup.”
Political Addict: CONSPEEERASSY.
“By the way, what the hell is the Bush Doctrine, anyway? All I know is that it makes us liberate countries and stuff, for Jesus.” - Sarah
sleepy: Brutally attempting to “snow-plow” us with her false earnestness.
Quite honestly, it would have been interesting to see Gibson give her a few Miller analogies and multiple choice questions, or questions about history. I bet she could not name the presidents since WW II.
Bird:tree::president:? (The correct answer is “Constitution”.)
The Neoskeptic: Totally.
Something to scare the moose with: Palin Doctrine.
Also, “a Bullwinkle moment”.
My republican dip shit friend keeps asking me what the Bush Doctrine is as if to convey some very important point about how it is ambiguous. I googled “Bush Doctrine” to make a point, and guess what I found as the third link:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/index.html
Comedy gold. From the White House to your House.
TGY:
“Hey, Charlie! Watch me pull Jeebus outta my hat. Nothing up my sleeve. PRESTO!”
The Neoskeptic: He’d have a hard time topping the reality, if the National Enquirer is right.
Bush Doctrine: screw unto others before they screw unto you.
“In what respect, Charlie?”
YES. This is what you do when you don’t know the answer to a question. You answer a question with a question.
Us White Folk Will Take Care of Ya! Drudge linked to a video of Whoopi asking McCain on the nationally teeveed Freshman Discussion Seminar that is The View if she should worry about being a slave again. Watch the white people squirm!
It’s 15 pounds and cognitive dissonance all over again!
I guess I’m just jaded.
Has anyone else thought what a spectacular porn movie that Barry and Sarah could make? Perhaps, “Mandingo Goes North”. An earnest young community worker, Barry natch, arrives in Wasilla to deliver a seminar on combating meth addiction. During a big snow storm his snowmobile breaks down. He walks miles and comes across a house. Inside, alone…cut off for days due to the ravages of winter…sits Sarah. Her children are away at war, school, or giving birth. Her husband is clubbing baby seals on an ice-flow somewhere. Barry knocks at the door….well you know the rest…..
It’s a bit like the ‘Hunting Hard Doctrine’. Perhaps that would have helped her.
TGY: Bullwinkle’s Revenge!
AngryBlakGuy: Doctrine, dogma; tomato, to-maa-to.
By the end she looks like she’s going to cry.
TGY: Very well put.
The hot water was off at my gym today, and so the freezing shower I had to take was, as I understand it, not unlike living in Alaska. As a working mom with this experience (and one who also knows what both the Bush and Monroe Doctrines are), does this mean I have to be Veep now?
teklanika: Oh yes, my friend, it is here:
http://mooseinheadlights.com/
Not so much a mash up, but a spectacular comparison.
Perhaps poor, bovine harpy confused ‘Bush Doctrine’ with the Peter Tosh album ‘Bush Doctor’
“A British record retailer banned the album upon its release because of a stratch-n-sniff sticker on its cover, that apparently smelled of ganja (marijuana).”
Terrible posture.
Does Palin remind anyone else of a little yapping chihuahua? She is so shrill and tense, despite her use of the familiar “Charlie.” She hardly resembles the pit bull she describes herself to be, but is more like an attack Chihuahua or some other lapdog. Her hair “plume” only adds to the image of a yorkie with a barrette.
Uncle Al: & NoWireHangers: Three time Gibson asked her a simple yes-or-no question (Should we raid Pakistan to payback terrorists who cross into Afghanistan to attack our troops?), and three times she bobbed-and-weaved and talked at length WITHOUT ANSWERING THE FUCKING QUESTION! And she’s the media star of the minute? Relax, Democrats. Give her another week of media scrutiny, and she’ll crack up.
She actually reminds me of Tracy Flick in “Election” aiyyyeeeee
madirishman: I also got the impression, from her ambiguous response to the Pakistan example Charlie gave, that she doesn’t know that Afghanistan and Pakistan share a border.
Caribou Barbie’s foreign policy: Throw a nuke a Moscow, and let’s go PARTY WITH JESUS!
Fuck it. I’m moving to another planet. Me, some socks and my toothbrush.
SayItWithWookies: Even after being given the questions a day prior to each respective day of interviewing. She is an incredible woman and an example for all of us.
why do all threats to American have to come on 9/11?
I guess Charlie must have thrown her too many softballs. They’ve put her up against a tought interviewer next”Sean Hannity.
Ready to lead from day one? It’s two weeks late and she isn’t even ready to INTERVIEW!
If Gibson is so smart, and there really is a “Bush Doctrine” that any au currant foreign policy wonk should know off the top of his-her head (as distinguished from a media-coined-phrase circa 2001 and not mentioned much since), then why did smarty pants interviewer have to READ the definition of same from HIS interview briefing book (that some intern prepared)?
Rush: Always bring a towel.
Thought you’d like to know that Todd Palin is one of 13 to be subpoenaed in the “troopergate” investigation.
http://www.adn.com/palin/story/524038.html
shortsshortsshorts: This Election has been hard on all of us. Just watch yourself. And maybe up your dosage.
Did anyone else have a flashback to Ms South Carolina? Surely the general public can see through a “flurry of words”? Okay. Maybe not.
Deer. In. Headlights. Dumb.
Christ, she’s showing a lot of leg for being Fairbanks. Where it’s a tropical 50 degrees.
We all know these “interviews” with ABC “news” are bullshit, right? Good.
What’s even funnier is that William Kritsol the “journalist” has an article on foxnews.com calling out the WaPo for distorting what Palin said at her son’s going away party about the Iraq/alQaeda link. He says she was clearly talking about al Qaeda in Iraq, not Al Qaeda that attacked on 9/ll. BWAAHAHAHAHA. Woman doesn’t know Afghanistan from her own ass, but she understands the al Qaeda/Al Qaeda differences?! Whooo, that was a good laugh…I needed that.
teklanika: already on collegehumor
Right at 0:42, she says “democracy” like it tingles her worn-out lady-parts.
This whole thing is a joke, right? Ha, ha?
I yearn for the days when the Republican Party had an intellectual elite in it, like William F. Buckley Jr. or Dan Quayle.
Gopherit v2.0: Hannity will ask tough questions, but sadly, his voice will be muffled by Palin’s ass cheeks.
Uncle Al: Deer in the gunsights.
Give Sista Sarah a break, guys. After all, even Dubya himself didn’t know what The Bush Doctrine was until Darth Cheney explained it to him.
Political Addict: It turns out that Charlie Gibson himself defined exactly what he meant by “the Bush Doctrine” immediately after he first asked the question as you can clearly see in the video, so this whole line about “dubious meaning” of the Bush Doctrine completely irrelevant to this discussion. Sarah Palin could have brought it up by challenging Charlie Gibson’s definition of the Bush Doctrine and saying that she understood it to state something different, but she didn’t do that!
gurukalehuru: No, Alaska’s total population is 650K, much smaller than NYC’s population, and former mayor giuliani was no rhodes scholar either.
Even now, Bill Kristol is pounding out a column about how it’s desirable–no, essential–that a VP candidate not know what the Bush doctrine is.
The worst part is that her supporters will claim he was bullying her, as if asking her about foreign policy is just Gibson being a big old meanie.
http://www.entertonement.com/collections/3369/First-Palin-Interview-Pt-1
I thought the Bush Doctrine was, “Beer before liquor never been sicker, liquor before beer you’re in the clear.”
I finally figured out her accent. Just don’t pronounce the vowels.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygg2uWsKK6w
trophy(forparticipation)wife: Oh my, I am glad someone noticed. It is truly painful to watch Ms. Palin dangle in the wind. Poor posture, poor speech, unsophisticated, naive. Man, McCain is one cruel fucker.
I need some of Cindy McCain’s Vicodin to make it through the next 60 days.
http://patentleatherpussycat.wordpress.com/
Rocky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Adrian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My favorite part of that whole interview was when Charlie Gibson asked her if she believed that homosexuality is a choice or if it’s genetic, and she responded, “I’m not going to judge someone on whether they believe that homosexuality is a choice or genetic - I’m not going to judge them.”
I think we should rename her Sarah Parrot, because these interviews made it painfully obvious that while she’s very good at parroting the lines they write for her, she knows NOTHING about the issues. Or, for that matter, how to behave in an interview, use talking points, and rephrase your answer when someone rephrases the question.