TPM: CBS To Air More Footage Of Couric Interviewing Palin This Week

[sabra]

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/cbs_to_air_more_footage_of_cou.php

A CBS source confirms to me that more footage of Sarah Palin being interviewed by Katie Couric will indeed air this week, in advance of the debate.

The question of whether there's more footage of Couric talking to Palin arose this morning after Howard Kurtz published a column with this buried at the end:

And the worst may be yet to come for Palin; sources say CBS has two more responses on tape that will likely prove embarrassing.

The CBS source clarifies to me that these taped responses from Palin are not a part of the big trainwreck interview that aired last week.

Rather, the source says, in addition to the big interview, Couric also interviewed Palin as part of its Vice Presidential Questions series, in which the same questions were also posed to Joe Biden.

[Schulzz]

1. LOL

Even more embarrassing? :wtf:

[hisownpetard]

2. When, when, WHEN??!

[gateley]

3. Since the questions are from a different series and Biden was asked the same

questions, they'll probably air Biden's responses, too. Otherwise it might look as they're just piling on Palin (which would be fine with me, but...)

[maddezmom]

4. CBS's website says tonights segment on Palin is about Religion and Domestic Issues

TONIGHT ON THE CBS EVENING NEWS

Here’s an early look at what we are working on for tonight’s broadcast of The CBS Evening News from Anchor and Managing Editor, Katie Couric:

An exclusive interview with Governor Sarah Palin on the campaign trail. We'll talk about her views on domestic issues and religion... TONIGHT, ONLY on THE CBS EVENING NEWS.

If you would like more information on any of these stories or the broadcast, please click on the following address and e-mail us: [e-mail]

[msallied]

5. Listen up y'all, it's a sabotage! LOL

[unblock]

6. ah, the gift that keeps on giving

we loves ya, sarah palin.

for different reasons, but we loves ya!

:rofl:

[C_U_L8R]

7. Comedians never had it so easy

[Arugula Latte]

8. Yay! It's X-mas in October!

:bounce:

[jefferson_dem]

9. Someone reported last week that she was asked about Cheney's stint as VP...

and she made some kind of off-hand comment about him shooting his hunting bro in the face. Has that bit come out yet?

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. CBS is now saying they don't have more footage.....

There is some buzz stirring among the politically obsessed that CBS News is sitting on embarrassing segments from its interview with Gov. Sarah Palin and that the station would trot out those segments sometime this week.
The Washington Post's media reporter Howard Kurtz stoked the flames this morning when the reported in his Media Notes column:

"And the worst may be yet to come for Palin; sources say CBS has two more responses on tape that will likely prove embarrassing."

In the end, it seems, there are no saved tapes, but that doesn't mean Kurtz is wrong. Leigh Farris, a spokesperson for CBS, says that the station has released all of the footage from last week's interview -- in which Palin provided increasingly unsteady answers to a series of foreign policy and economic questions.

"Everything from last week either aired or is on the website," she said.

But a source familiar with CBS News' plans clarified the station has, in the works, it's Vice Presidential Questions series with Palin and Joseph Biden, which was always scheduled to air in the days before the vice presidential debate.

"The series is based on the Presidential Questions series," the source says, "in which Couric asks the candidates the same set of questions on wide range of topics from policy to character to leadership."

Indeed, this may be the portion that could prove embarrassing to Palin. And, as Kurtz noted, it was taped last week.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/29/cbs-theres-no-more-palin_n_130231.html?duckley=true

[ecstatic]

11. What I want to know is, how can ANYONE defend that footage and

chant "USA" in the next breath? :shrug:

[TheDonkey]

12. "as Polar Bear rears its head *licks finger*, it's Alaska, we keep an eye out. Tax reduction."