The Wasilla Wolf Killa accuses Rachel Maddow of conducting a "prejudiced" interview with Rand Paul

[marmar]

from huffpost:



Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin accused MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Sunday of conducting a "prejudiced" interview with Rand Paul, in which the Tea Party candidate infamously aired skepticism about the reach of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Speaking to "Fox News Sunday," the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee said that Paul was being subjected to the same biased media coverage that marked her run for office, before offering her Tea Party-backed candidate a bit of advice.

"One thing we can learn in this lesson that I have learned and Rand Paul is learning now is don't assume that you can engage in a hypothetical discussion about constitutional impacts with a reporter or a media personality who has an agenda, who may be prejudiced before they even get into the interview in regards to what your answer may be," Palin said. "You know, they are looking for the gotcha moment. And that evidently appears to be what they did with Rand Paul, and I'm thankful he clarified his answer about his support for the Civil Rights Act."

Paul sparked several days worth of controversial coverage when he suggested to Maddow that the government had meddled too far into private enterprise in the passage of the Civil Rights Act and other legislation. But contrary to Palin's suggestion, it wasn't an adversarial interview that was the root of the problem. After all, Paul was granted 15 minutes by Maddow to explain his position on the matter. Moreover, he had made the same controversial comments earlier that morning to NPR (which, in turn, served as the basis of Maddow's questioning). .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/23/palin-on-maddow-rand-paul_n_586353.html

[lunatica]

1. Reporting and doing interviews based on facts is now an agenda

Who knew?

Sarah just hates it when someone brings up shit she says as part of an interview. That's just so unfair and gotcha stuff! Poor Rand! The unfairness of being asked to explain what he said!

[saltpoint]

2. Maybe the half-term halfwit should go on the Maddow program to

present her case.

I'd tune in in for that.

[Fleshdancer]

3. oh yes! It's almost as bad as that evil Katie Couric asking "what do you read?"

I mean, how DARE Maddow ask anything other than "so what exactly makes you so awesome?" or "as a patriot, what's the worst thing about the US government?". She's soooo mean.

:eyes:

[WeDidIt]

4. I know what I'll be watching on Monday night

:evilgrin:

Rachel will tear her apart with a smile.

[KharmaTrain]

5. This Lady Is An Idiot...

Any word from Mooselini on Drill Baby Drill yet? Gonna be fun to watch all the candidates she's glammed onto and visa versa go down in November.

[malaise]

6. Nothing hypothetical about people's rights

Fuck you Lady Blah Blah :puke:

[HopeHoops]

7. Yeah, teabaggers should stick with "Fair and Balanced" FOX.

:rofl:

What a fucking idiot.

[BootinUp]

8. Suspension of disbelief is obviously a prerequisite

for teabaggers. Ignore what he said before, (many times) he supports the Civil Rights Act! Really.

[Hansel]

9. Of course she would be against Rachel's interviewing style, because..

It's far more responsible to fabricate controversy and air prejudiced segments using doctored tapes and inflammatory and slanderous commentary and repeat it over and over and over on every show without giving the target a chance to respond or defend him or herself (or if you do, cut their mic or scream over them and call them liars). Like she and her employer does it.

Rachel did it all wrong.

[WeDidIt]

10. Don't know how,

but this posted in a different thread than I was actually posting in.

[opihimoimoi]

11. But...she wants to run for Obamas Job....Moose Lady is nutz

[Contrary1]

12. If Rand learned nothing from Palin's stupidity...

Does that make him more stupid, or just equally as stupid as The Quitter?

I would hate to see Sarah dethroned.

[Blue_In_AK]

13. Sarah,

just shut the fuck up! I am so sick and tired of this person.