Palin On Fox News: Couric Annoyed Me

Appearing on a friendlier news outlet, Gov. Sarah Palin said she was "annoyed" with the way Katie Couric handled their interview and complained that the CBS Evening News host failed to give her the opportunity to take a proverbial axe to Barack Obama.

In a portion of her sit-down with Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron, Palin claimed that Couric's questions -- which produced a series of staggeringly embarrassing responses -- put her in a lose-lose position.

"The Sarah Palin in those interviews was a little bit annoyed," she said. "It's like, man, no matter what you say, you are going to get clobbered. If you choose to answer a question, you are going to get clobbered on the answer. If you choose to try to pivot and go to another subject that you believe that Americans want to hear about, you get clobbered for that too."

For the record, Couric asked her, among other things, what type of news sources she turns to for information, which Supreme Court decisions she disagreed with, why Alaska's proximity to Russia gave her foreign policy experience, her opinion of the bailout package for Wall Street, and where she thought Vice President Dick Cheney erred. Which one of those questions was designed to trip her up (as opposed to, say, give viewers a better sense of her character and views) is tough to ascertain.

Later in her interview with Cameron, Palin offered a sense of what she thinks would have been a fairer set of questions. Unsurprisingly, they all would have provided her the opportunity to rail against Obama.

"In those Katie Couric interviews, I did feel that there were lot of things that she was missing in terms of an opportunity to ask what a VP candidate stands for, what the values are represented in our ticket. I wanted to talk about Barack Obama increasing taxes, which would lead to killing jobs. I wanted to talk about his proposal to increase government spending by another trillion dollars. Some of his comments that he's made about the war, that I think may, in my world, disqualify someone from consideration as the next commander in chief. Some of the comments that he has made about Afghanistan -- what we are doing there, supposedly just air raiding villages and killing civilians. That's reckless. I want to talk about things like that. So I guess I have to apologize for being a bit annoyed, but that's also an indication of being outside the Washington elite, outside of the media elite also. I just wanted to talk to Americans without the filter and let them know what we stand for."

Comments

[FloydianHate]

Palin is nothing but the end result of a politically uncompetitive environment. She is an orchid grown on one face of one mountain in South America, transplanted into relevancy, pretty and ultimately useless.

[TheShootist]

Gee, ya know ya just hate her cuz she's not an unattractive granola munching, Birk-wearing, unable to survive in the private sector, overeducated loon from Stanford!

[Starvemartin]

As a kid, I had a good friend who was into karate. He took lessons, read all the books, saw all the Bruce Lee movies and, at the ripe age of 14, thought he knew all about karate. He wanted to demonstrate his skills using me as a practice attacker.

"Take this knife," he once told me, handing me a rubber weapon, "and come at me."

I did, holding the knife in front of me and approaching him menacingly.

"Not like that," he said. "Raise it over your head."

"Is that what you learned in karate?" I asked. "If someone comes at you, you have to stop him and tell him how he should be attacking you?"

I was reminded of this episode after watching Sarah Palin in this news clip. What arrogance! To think she knows how to conduct an interview better than Katie Couric! And then to be angry because she doesn't have the brain power to answer a simple question like, "What magazines do you read?"

It's not like the questions were difficult. In fact, it was almost a Monty Python sketch: "What is your name? What is your mission? What is your favorite color?"

The best thing we can do as Americans is to send this pinhead back to Alaska and then ALLOW THEM TO SECEDE.

[youhavegottobekidding]

I think you are all missing the point of this interview.­........sh­e REFUSES to play by the rules. She is above rules. This is a very scary attitude..­....remini­ssant of the last 8 years when G.W. did what ever the hell he wanted. She obviously would do the same. Even though I agree 100% with all the other reasons she should go back home where she belongs, her attitude of "I'll say & do what I want and ignore everyone" is the most detructive "platform" she has.

[Aimleft]

Thank you - my thoughts exactly. She would be as reckless as Bush - after all, she will be the latest "decider" based on her own "gut" feelings (and whatever god tells her) rather than any connection with reality. Her fake folksiness is nauseating too, and also reminds me of our current idiot in chief.

[Danny917]

Palin for Condom, Not For Vice President!

Sarah Palin is the most unqualified VP nominee I've ever heard of, but her condoms are AWESOME! A co-worker recently threw a VP debate viewing party and handed out Palin Condoms as party favors. I thought they were hillarious and wildly appropriate since Palin is anti-abortion and condoms prevent abortions, right?

I already ordered some Palin Condoms to send to my relatives living in red states. Let's see how much of a sense of humor they have!

[TyneCrescent]

It is astonishing that a woman, so hilariously unqualified to be on a presidential ticket, could be selected to be within a heart-beat of being Commander In Chief. What in the world are the supporters of McBush/Palin looking at? Her lone job should be a "hockey mom" and nothing else even close to making decisions about people's lives, in Alaska or anywhere else on earth!! She is incompetent, doesn't have a grasp of anything substantial (which was obvious in all her interviews), now she attempts to link Obama to a terrorist, who was doing his deeds when Obama was a child. She still hasn't come clean about "Troopergate" or her role in the "Bridge to Nowhere." Palin and McBush are just an embarassment to politics in the greatest country on the planet. To see that some in our country have stooped so low in setting the bar for political leaders that they can't even see or understand the bias, the amount of hatred and their own narrow mindedness has let a campaign like McBush/Palin be even a subject for national debate. And that Republican ticket gets more desperate every day!!

[screenname223]

Sarah Palin - The Post Turtle

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year old Texas rancher whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Sarah Palin and her bid to be a heartbeat away from being President.
The old rancher said, ' Well, ya know, Palin is a post turtle.'
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a post turtle was.
The old rancher said, ' When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a post turtle.'
The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain.

' You know she didn't get up there by herself, she doesn't belong up there, she doesn't know what to do while she is up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put her up there to begin with.'

[venona]

I am still in a state of complete and utter bewilderment that somehow Palin is qualified and acceptable to be VP. I want outrage. I demand outrage. This warped Disney-esque fantasy of Hockey Mom Goes to Washington is so unbelievably insane that if the GOP can spin her into office it will be one of the most remarkable low-balling maneuvers ever in presidential politics.

[marco34la]

I want outrage too! I have wanted outraged for the past 8months. The idea that Obama, who hasn't even served 1 term as a us senator, is somehow qualified to be president is outrageous! This fantasy that having our first black male president will somehow change the world is insane. The fact that Oprah marketed and sold this man to the media and her millions of viewers is the most remarkable low-balling maneuvers in history. Say what you will about Palin... the fact is... she's at least got executive experience... governing a state for 2 years.

[scootmandubious]

Glad you got Obama's color in.

I don't get it, why are McCain supporters trying so hard to make us think that you are all racist.

This above post is one of the most politically ignorant comments I have ever seen. Aren't you the least bit embarrassed by it?

I am surprised that you left out that Palin was the regulator of oil, gas and hot air.

Or that she lives really, really close to Russia. So close that Putin can wave to her from his window seat.

Yes, that Sarah Palin, we look at her and marvel about her presidential demeanor.

I mean, we need an advocate in the White House to include the Idarod in the next olympics. We need somebody to help study the effect that wolf hunting from planes has in calming the psyche of folks who don't get an awful lot of sunlight each year.

Yessiree (wink, wink), golly gosh darn, we want a no-nonsense leader who knows how to save money, like making rape victims pay for the high cost of those pesky sexual assault exams.

In fact, what could be more Bush-like than a leader who allows a 26 million dollar 'road to nowhere' to be built after the accompanying bridge was rejected....with part of the money earmarked for the bridge.

Yes, everyone likes a road that does absolutely nothing but wind and wind and come to a dead end.

Sort of like the McCain campaign.

[Dandywalker]

You've been living in a dream world, marco34la, which pill would you take, the red or the blue Take the red pill and become a democrat....all we offering is the truth, nothing more. Take the blue....You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe and continue watching Faux news while Sarah Palin keep pulling her son out of the guitar case for entertainment during her campaigning

[djsue]

There are more people in Chicago than there are in the entire state of Alaska, so the experience factor is as thin and weak as your argument. He represents more people than she does, now doesn't he? The only thing that she talks about is what she does in Alaska, like the other 49 states don't exist.

Are you ignoring the fact that since the United States began electing presidents, that the only pool we have ever had to choose from is "White Men". No one ever complained about that, now did they? The fact that you are talking about him as the first black male president is nothing to be proud of. Well, you might as well get used to it, because if it is not him, another person of color will be there to take his place.

Oprah never had him on her show after he announced his candidacy. In her private life, Oprah can endorse who she wants to. Isn't this a free country? I liked your comment about low-balling? How about the call by the Republicans to boycott her show because she endorsed Obama? Did it work? I guess not, because she is still on the air.

Palin may have 2 years experience as the Governor of Alaska, but it is her closed minded view of the world and rights of others that have gotten her to this position.

It certainly is not her intelligence in things not "Alaskan".

[who38]

Well, we all know how valuable Bush's executive experience has helped him during the past eight years. So, what's your point?

[Strywever]

You completely and wilfully overlook the fact that Obama is perfectly capable of forming and expressing informed, coherent opinions, positions, and statements on any topic with which a president might reasonably be expected to deal with. That should be a MINIMUM requirement of anyone running for the office of vice president.

In case you haven't noticed, Palin isn't even capable of doing that, despite the fact that her handlers are spoon-feeding information to her and protecting her from any but the kindest interviewers.

Are you out of your mind?

[TyneCrescent]

Marco34la sounds like a closet "repugnican" or some other loose end. Palin's got two years of "executive experience?" Give me a break. Doing what? Trying to build pork barrel bridges or get her ex brother-in-law fired from his job. Well, if she does, it definitely isn't showing. She's a dimwitted pawn in the political game, and you need to get over yourself and your inane opinions. Change is coming whether you and cronies like you, are on board.

[TimboM]

The First Dude has something to say about all this stuff: www.dearfirstdude.blogspot.com

[jtmoney]

I can't believe this chick, really.

[who38]

She's not a chick; she's Moosegirl!

[LynetteRadio]

Is she serious? She had no idea about any of the topics she's bullet-listing off before her VP debate coaching sessions. If different reporters - across all genres - ask you the SAME questions, and yet you refuse to answer them, doesn't that say something? Hello, Gov. Palin, I want the questions answered. Don't spout off crap about Obama, I want to hear about YOUR THOUGHTS. Oh, maybe the crickets I am hearing are your thoughts. Sorry.

[zenlikejen]

Ha! I think even the crickets have abandoned her....

[jlbny]

Even when given an opportunity to defend her horrible interview with Couric, she states she wishes she could've talked about "Obama this, Obama that" and ends by saying she wants to talk without a filter about what her/McCain stand for. She STILL hasn't talked about what they stand for. I wonder if she learned that change-the-subject strategy in journalism schoolssss.

[who38]

That may be why she attended five schools in six years. Or was it six schools in five years? Wonder if any of them required an English course in order to meet graduation requirements?

[Janel]

Katie Couric did give Sarah some latitude, but sorry Govenor Palin, you blew it! It is pathetic that an individual with your qualifications is on the Republican ticket. Thanks to Senator McCain's VP choice is the primary reason he is so behind in the polls today. Govenor Palin scares people!

[who38]

It is my understanding that Schmidt, who is one of McCain's handlers (and who previously worked for Ahnold), insisted on Palin as a VP choice. Catch a picture of him and the whole scenario falls into place.

[DUALISLECITIZEN]

I think Schmidt and Arnold had a good idea in choosing her but I really think they could've done some more research because I am sure she could not have been the only female republican suitable for the job.

[PengieP]

It isn't only pathetic that someone like Gov. Palin is on the Republican ticket, it's TYPICAL!

[Daddysgirl]

"Some of his comments that he's made about the war, that I think may, in my world, disqualify someone from consideration as the next commander in chief."

Like hell Sarah, in YOUR world you should NOT even have accepted to be on the darn ticket! You are a disgrace to women everyhere! Your job as possible VP is to tell us what you and McCain plan to take this country in a direction to make us the envy of the world again, not a laughing stock of the world as we are now! Your spot in the light is NOT for you to spend bashing Obama, but to convince us of why we ned to vote for McCain. Geeze!! Post turtle is what you REALLY are!

[rayy]

Honey, you DO NEED a filter!

The lack of one is the problem, and now we can see why she was cloistered for 3 weeks!

[who38]

I agree. However, let's agree to Moosegirl's terms and let her speak; the more she talks, the worse she becomes.