Media Helps Palin Cheat On Foreign Policy Test

Via ThinkProgress, here's a video of various media types telling their viewers that it's totally okay that Sarah Palin doesn't know what the Bush Doctrine is. Why is it okay? Because most Americans don't know what it is either! And they're right! In order for most Americans to know what is going on in the world, there would have to be some sort of public institution by which important facts would be systematically communicated to the general public, perhaps through an interconnected network of cathode ray tubes or something!

In other news, I took my car to get inspected Friday and was told I needed some sort of "tie rod end" replaced. Like most Americans, I didn't know what a "tie rod end" was, didn't see why I needed a wheel alignment on top of the repair, and certainly didn't see why I needed to pay two hundred and some-odd dollars to get it fixed! Sounded like it was just a way to get me to line the pockets of Big Auto Mechanic!

So I did what John McCain would do, with his War Heroism: I gave the dude who hangs out on the front stoop of the pawn shop across the street from my apartment fifty bucks to fix it. And he did! And I'm satisfied. Sure, the front quarter of the car now makes a grinding, keening noise that sounds like a quintet of robotic beagles being pummeled by meteors, but to me, that's just the sound of my freedom to tell elite know-it-alls to suck it. I think I know how to repair a car! I mean, from my land, I can see other cars!

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[research]

Bush's
"The
National Military Strategy
of the
United States of America"

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2005/d20050318nms.pdf

Is THE BUSH DOCTRINE.

"Doctrine" what we call a new foreign policy statement. Duh

Curious how the White House dropped it from their site.

[unhipcat]

A lot of people don't know what the Bush Doctrine is.
On the other hand, Palin didn't understand what it is even after Charlie explained it to her.

[Guynemer]

OMG are you all still doing false victory laps over this?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091202457.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

[xac00fm]

FAUXED OUT NEWS is the most b!ased and unfa!r and rac!al channel that ever existed. CBS is closely in 2nd place...

[qjpres1]

Willing to give 10 - 1 odds that Palin can't name or know 6 world leaders,
not counting Castro.

[eden4barack08]

But..,but.., she can see Russia from her house!

[Belleweathered]

She probably couldn't name all of the current Justices on the Supreme Court either, but I bet she can name 9 characters on The Simpsons.

[qjpres1]

Questions: How old was Palin daughter when she became pregnant?

What's the age of consent in Alaska?

If that was Barak's daughter there would be HELL TO PAY. Hang em high.

[eden4barack08]

Sixteen, and sixteen. And I can't even imagine what they'd say if it was Barak's daughter.

[claylandg]

So i take it from your questions you don't care about issues only national enquire stuff??In this time in the USA I would think we would be discusing difference in issues not prego stuff.I'm all for issues, economy, taxes ,security i could care less who's having a child it's none of my business.I love bill Clinton and i couldn't have cared less who he slept with his policies were good for America he made us strong so this is one of thoes cases personel issue aren't important and if they are for some people than god help us.

[eden4barack08]

Everytime one of those idiot pundits kept saying "well, even I didn't know what the B ush doctrine was..", I was screaming at my tv, "WHO TF CARES ABOUT YOU? YOU'RE NOT APPLYING FOR VP!"¨
Boy, the MSM and the pundits, these fools, they're harmful to America.

[Agnim]

So let's get this straight:

1. The nation has been at war for over 5 years.

2. A governor has been sending National Guards to surrender lives, limbs, mental health in the Iraq hell hole.

3. And said governor does not know the fundamental policies of the warmonger President?

4. Such a governor is as out of touch as bush was prior to 911 and during Hurricane Katrina!

[eden4barack08]

She did not need to know anything. The "task was from God"!

[claylandg]

So i take it you know all 7 of the bush doctorine?? i don't care that your not runnung for office either you do or you don't. Give me a break who care, i care about my taxes going up, giving my hard earned dollars to lasy ass people get a job!!! Another government program we can't aford to help people, people help yourself, get an education, get a job and stop having multipule kids with no fathers

[odanu]

You make over $250k per year? Wow! I'm on the internet with a real elite!!

Where do you suggest people "get a job" when jobs are bleeding out of the economy at a phenomenal rate? And where do they "get a job" that pays a living wage?

Further, with the inavailabilty of student loans and grants, and those loans and grants not meeting the cost of a semester of college, how do you suggest people "get an education"?

OTOH, I truly commend you for supporting women's rights to full access to birth control, but what is this "no fathers" you speak of? Are these women getting pregnant by osmosis? Or do you simply mean that the government is doing an inadequate job of holding fathers responsible for the financial upkeep of their children?

[xargaw]

I consider myself an average American. I do not work in government. I get my information from books and newspapers and the web and TV. I recall being inundated with the Bush Doctrine vs the Just War Theory prior to and during early years of the War. If I knew what it was, surely someone running for high office should be able to speak intelligently about it.

[jah2008]

Oh please. "Grow a pair!" The media has none.

[Ramirez]

Not to excuse Palin, but Gibson didn't understand the Bush Doctrine either.

[soapington]

A foreign policy expert shares his wisdom. Thanks.

[quadman]

So which of the 4 to 7 different described Bush Doctrines was Charlie referring to?

[eden4barack08]

No matter which definition you give as the Bush doctrine, she knew NONE of them.

[JohnTalbutt]

Whether or not most Americans are familia with the Bush Doctrine they recognized her response of "in what respect" as the I-am-stalling-because-I-won't-admit-I-don't-know.

[nootrope]

hahaha - "interconnected network of cathode ray tubes." good one.

But I think they have other purposes for that (why do you think they call it "programming?") ;-)

[amantell]

While Palin is a governor, her state has a population that's smaller than many American cities, including New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. The economy is dominated by oil production, as opposed to some states that have a wide variety of industries ranging from farming to finance to tourism. There's not much ethnic or religious diversity to speak of in Alaska, either. And while some states, New York and California spring to mind, are required to have foreign policy because of their foreign influx, Alaska does not.
Palin could be a three term governor at this juncture and she still wouldn't have tackled the diversity of issues that the mayors of the cities I've alluded to above might have. Giuliani, by virtue of being a two-term mayor of New York City would be better suited to the Vice Presidency. I'd say her experience as governor is more comparable to being the mayor of a city the size of San Francisco than the governor of a state like Florida.
When considering her successes relative to the issues she's tackled, she doesn't come across as exceptional, except by virtue of her style of leadership, which appears tyrannical. She also seems to lie with the same ease that David Geffen attributed to the Clintons at the beginning of the Democratic primary season. Combined with a provincial uninterest in issues that do not immediately affect her career, she has qualities that make her undesirable as a leader at any level of government.

[MarkieBee001]

Sacramento County has twice as many people in it than the entire state of Alaska. None of my county supervisors are ready to be Vice President.

[Samshade77]

I am so sick of this. She does not know what the Bush Doctrine is.Well I do and I think all of America should know. And even if FOLKS IN RURAL MISSOURI DON"T WAKE UP WHILE EATING RICE KRISPIES ,going she does not know what the Bush Doctrine is. Well she does need to know. Just because the media does not use it in "short hand" does not mean it is not important. That is a big issue that is the reason why we are in Iraq know and talking about going into Iran. All you guy's in the mid west should be appalled by the way that commentator judged the mid west as being norrow minded and not concerned about foreign policy. SHE IS A HEART BEAT AWAY