Sacramento Fox affiliate won’t apologize for broadcasting "off-the-cuff assessment" of Palin speech

[Amerigo Vespucci]

A Fox affiliate television station is refusing to apologize for accidentally broadcasting a room full of reporters offering very frank assessments of a speech by former half-term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

The slip-up happened Friday night as Fox40 in Sacramento was broadcasting live from California State University, Stanislaus. After the speech concluded, journalists and crew members behind the scenes offered some off-the-cuff assessment of her remarks, with one man saying he felt like he'd just stepped off a roller coaster.

Another said he could understand why "the dumbness doesn't come through in sound-bytes." Yet another argued that she'd not used a complete sentence or even "made a statement."

The station insists their reporter and photographer were not behind the comments -- however, they do not offer an apology or name the reporters whose voices were picked up.

Indeed, it's possible the error was due to Palin's pronounced dislike of the media, as even the Fox crew was turned away from her actual speech, according to their explanation. Instead of filming the former official up close, they were forced to point their cameras at a screen in a media overflow area at some separate venue.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0626/fox-affiliate-apologize-mistakenly-broadcasting-reporters-calling-palin-dumb/

[pscot]

1. Stick a fork in her

I b'lieve she's done.

[pretzel4gore]

3. president 45...

question: Why is there so many 'brownshirts' running around the Olde Sod (planet earth)?
answer: Bush and Palin and reagan before them wipes their butts with USA etc...
iow, we're toilet paper to the governing class!

[HipChick]

2. Why should they apologize for her being stupid? but this is the bigger issue

Palin claimed Democrats support female mutilation..

[Amerigo Vespucci]

9. Frank Zappa nailed the Palin apology concept in his song "San Ber'dino"......

..."Oh Bobby, I'm sorry you gotta head like a potato...I really am ..."

:rofl:

So the apology SHOULD be offered, and it should go something like this:

"Oh half-term Governor Sarah Palin, I'm sorry you can't speak in complete sentences of form simple thoughts in a way that you can communicate them effectively...I really am ..."

:rofl:

You're right, we have reached a sad state of affairs when we even discuss apologizing to a public figure, a politician, who is several slices shy of a loaf, for BEING several slices shy of a loaf. Maybe she should trot out Trig the next time so the media can apologize to him too, even if they never mention him. They can apologize to Trig simply because Palin delivered another lame-ass speech and the media called her on it and she can manipulate events to represent a hate crime against her Down Syndrome baby, as he's done many times in the past, and as always, no one will question her. No one.

She seems to be uneducated (in the same "intellectually incurious" manner of George W. Bush), she's inarticulate (relying heavily on worn catch-phrases in order to pump up the crowd whenever she's short on actual substance), AND...the BEST part...she never hesitates for a MOMENT to toss a brick through the glass house of anyone she doesn't like.

:rofl:

[Beaverhausen]

11. Yours is the second post I've seen that mentions that. Do you have a link?

not that I don't believe you, but a link would be useful. :hi:

[Contrary1]

12. No link, but I did find this:

Posted at FR:

"Her mentioning of female genital mutilation and General Napier were deadly accurate and hit the nail on the head. Her take down of cultural relativism was a knock at the Lefties who populate the Academy."

Still searching for the actual quote.

[crim son]

4. I'm sure the dumbness would come through

loud and clear to people who aren't as dumb or dumber than she is i.e. nobody voluntarily attending the speech.

[lpbk2713]

5. She's dumber than a box of moose turds.

There's just no escaping the obvious.

[tanyev]

6. Hope they're ready for a Twitter-lashing.

[Bluerthanblue]

7. well hey- isn't she all about the right to "free speech"??

don't the people who said what they did have a right to their opinions?

Or only her-Majesty Ms.Palin?

:shrug:

[GrantDem]

8. How's that free pressy, free speechy thing workin' out fer ya?

[TexasObserver]

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