... this is probably not a skit from SNL, and really is the second half of the interview Sarah Palin did with Katie Couric. I think.
(Sorry about the commercial at the start.)
(alt. video link | h/t: Mark Kleiman/The Reality-Based Community)
Wow. Just ... wow. The Automatic Phrase-O-Matic. She hasn't got the slightest idea what she's talking about, has she?
If you missed the earlier post, and if you just can't get enough of trainwrecks, you can find a link to the first part of the interview here.
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Is it any wonder McSame wants to postpone Friday's debate to next Thursday and bump the Thursday VP debate to a "yet-to-be-determined" date?
No, Sornie. It isn't.
The only thing the scares me listening to her - I know she's clueless, you know it and Brendan knows it. But does the guy who voted for Bush because he wanted to have a beer with him know it? I don't know...
Sornie: I could believe that the McCain camp is in a panic at the thought of Palin debating, given the disaster that the Gibson and Couric interviews were, but even for the impulsive McCain, his idea of postponing the debate just to delay (or completely cancel) Palin's seems a bit much.
On the other hand, if you add McCain's own lack of preparedness to discuss the economy, plus his perceived need for a stunt to halt the momentum and change the narrative, I could be persuaded that Palin's cluelessness was part of the thinking when he decided to call for this postponement.
John: There is no doubt that some people will see her, even at her worst moments in these interviews, and think, "Can you believe how the liberal media is trying to make her look bad?" Or, "Good answer. That's just what I would have said."
However, I do think that fraction of the voting public is small, and continues to shrink.
Hilariously bad.
It was always a risky strategy: the GOP shielded her from the media at the outset, carefully choreographing each appearance. But this simply focuses our attention on the main event when she actually has to think on her feet. And when she fails, the failure is all the more epic.
Forget Quayle, she is a true Joke Running Mate for the Ages.
That's a good observation, Alastair. You'd think people who are fundamentally in the marketing business would have recognized the longer you tease a product, the more it has to deliver when you finally take off the wraps.
Really, though, their hand was kind of forced. If she's this bad after three weeks of intense prep, just imagine what she would have been like, speaking without a script, back then. This doesn't excuse whoever made her the choice in the first place, of course.
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