September 25, 2008--Piling On
Too bad no one’s watching the CBS Evening News with Kati Couric. She’s pretty much the only one in the old media asking tough questions, and when people equivocate or try to dodge them presses them with even more dogged follow ups.
Case in point--her interview yesterday with Sarah Palin. I confess not to having watched it until I picked it up on YouTube after my sister-in-law alerted me to it. Check YouTube yourself of it you prefer things in print read the New York Times story linked below.
Palin was in New York for a whirlwind meeting with a selection of world leaders and made herself available for the Couric interview. This was supposed to show her off as ready to take on the Number One job if something were to happen to John McCain. Even though Laura Bush contradicted this during an appearance on CNN when she said that “of course she doesn’t have [foreign policy experience]. You know, that’s not been her role.”
Well, Palin revealed how true that is from the reports about the inanity of her conversations with various presidents and prime ministers. Mainly getting-to-know-you chitchat and flirting.
And then later with Kati Couric she showed that she is also not up to speed on domestic matters. Especially the economic crisis. While a calm and a steady hand are required to attempt to stabilize things—forget fix them—she compared the current situation to the Great Depression. Even George Bush in his medicated gloom-and-doom speech last night didn’t go that far.
Then poor John McCain, suspending his campaign and racing back to Washington to do who-knows-what (so revved up that, claiming he was too busy solving our economic problems, he cancelled his appearance on Letterman who then publicly mocked him by showing pictures of him being made up for another TV interview being taped at the same time), McCain had to back away from the person he assured us is “the best qualified vice presidential candidate in history.” Better, I imagine, than John Adams.
The Times, not often flippant in its news coverage, quoted Palin verbatim, dialect and all, when pressed by Couric to give specific examples of times when her running mate called for greater government oversight of the securities industry.
First Palin hemmed and hawed and spoke in non-specific generalities. But when Kati Couric wouldn’t let her get away with that Palin said that McCain’s call last week for greater regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is “more than a heck of a lot of other senators and representatives did for us,” Couric, still not satisfied, called for other, earlier-than-last-week examples, Palin, still chipper, replied: “I’ll try to find you some and I’ll bring ‘em to ya.”
As they still say in my old neighborhood—Don’t hold your breath.
Case in point--her interview yesterday with Sarah Palin. I confess not to having watched it until I picked it up on YouTube after my sister-in-law alerted me to it. Check YouTube yourself of it you prefer things in print read the New York Times story linked below.
Palin was in New York for a whirlwind meeting with a selection of world leaders and made herself available for the Couric interview. This was supposed to show her off as ready to take on the Number One job if something were to happen to John McCain. Even though Laura Bush contradicted this during an appearance on CNN when she said that “of course she doesn’t have [foreign policy experience]. You know, that’s not been her role.”
Well, Palin revealed how true that is from the reports about the inanity of her conversations with various presidents and prime ministers. Mainly getting-to-know-you chitchat and flirting.
And then later with Kati Couric she showed that she is also not up to speed on domestic matters. Especially the economic crisis. While a calm and a steady hand are required to attempt to stabilize things—forget fix them—she compared the current situation to the Great Depression. Even George Bush in his medicated gloom-and-doom speech last night didn’t go that far.
Then poor John McCain, suspending his campaign and racing back to Washington to do who-knows-what (so revved up that, claiming he was too busy solving our economic problems, he cancelled his appearance on Letterman who then publicly mocked him by showing pictures of him being made up for another TV interview being taped at the same time), McCain had to back away from the person he assured us is “the best qualified vice presidential candidate in history.” Better, I imagine, than John Adams.
The Times, not often flippant in its news coverage, quoted Palin verbatim, dialect and all, when pressed by Couric to give specific examples of times when her running mate called for greater government oversight of the securities industry.
First Palin hemmed and hawed and spoke in non-specific generalities. But when Kati Couric wouldn’t let her get away with that Palin said that McCain’s call last week for greater regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is “more than a heck of a lot of other senators and representatives did for us,” Couric, still not satisfied, called for other, earlier-than-last-week examples, Palin, still chipper, replied: “I’ll try to find you some and I’ll bring ‘em to ya.”
As they still say in my old neighborhood—Don’t hold your breath.
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