Sarah Palin’s Latest Interview Is Making People (repubs) Sad

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/09/links_13.html?imw=Y

Sarah Palin’s Latest Interview Is Making People Sad
9/26/08

The mood over Sarah Palin is changing. Her political naysayers used to delight in her floundering her way through interviews (okay, that one interview with Charlie Gibson). They enjoyed pointing out her lack of credentials. But her interview with Katie Couric over the past two nights has elicited a different response — like cringing. No longer is there joy in Palin's struggles. Watching her has become like watching one of those hopeless singers trying out for American Idol: First you laugh. Then you laugh some more. Maybe after that you laugh a little bit more. And as the talentless contestant soldiers on, despite the judges' derision, it hits you that this person, despite their best efforts, doesn't even realize that they don't have what it takes. And that makes you kind of sad.

• Alessandra Stanley writes that "in some ways it was the worst" interview Palin has done. The exchange on Russia was "startling," her answer "surprisingly wobbly." While it's "perhaps understandable" that Palin "felt nervous," it still "wasn’t a reassuring performance."

• Howard Kurtz says Palin "struggled at times and appeared less comfortable than" in her interview with Charlie Gibson.

Kevin Drum claims "you can't watch this clip from Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric without wondering if she's completely cracked under the pressure of running for vice president." It's gotten to the point where Drum doesn't "even feel right making snarky jokes about this stuff anymore."

[Lucky 13]

1. Freeptards are stuck on one thing...

Couric referred to Joe Biden as Senator Biden and referred to Sarah Palin as Sarah Palin. They claim it shows a clear lack of respect from Couric to Palin... ergo the whole interview doesn't count.

I can't WAIT for the VP debates.

[knowledgeispwr]

3. Grasping at straws!

Man, they latch on to anything.

[ronnykmarshall]

6. How soon they forget.

In the 1984 VP debate Bush never ONCE addressed Gerry Ferraro as "Congresswoman Ferraro". He kept referring to her as "Mrs. Ferraro".

[knowledgeispwr]

2. I'm overjoyed and pissed at the same time

Overjoyed that she is dragging McStunt down, but pissed that McStunt would put such an unqualified person in the position that she's in. Not only that, they are making the US look nuts.

McStunt is despicable and Palin is pathetic.

[Bensthename]

4. She is becoming more of a joke by the day.

[Robeson]

5. That interview scared the hell out me.