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Sunday, September 28, 2008

Part Four of Katie Couric’s Interview with Sarah Palin

posted by on September 28 at 10:38 AM

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She makes it so easy.

Dan, I hope gallup has made you a happy man today. After all it's put you through, you deserve a change. ;)

Posted by not hungover for once | September 28, 2008 11:02 AM
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the worst about that was how much of it was, verbatim, SP's actual language. oh the horror.

Posted by cranky | September 28, 2008 11:03 AM
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And yet Tina Fey, playing Sarah Palin as a stupefying dolt, comes across as smarter and better-equipped than Sarah Palin playing herself. Yikes.

Posted by Andy James | September 28, 2008 11:20 AM
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the palin/biden debate on thursday is going to be such tv gold!

Posted by jrrrl | September 28, 2008 11:21 AM
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@4: Yes, it will, even (especially?) if her handlers resort to the Rovian earpiece tactic that Bush couldn't quite master in the '04 debate.

Posted by emma's bee | September 28, 2008 11:25 AM
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I love how Sarah Palin is driving you leftists crazy.

The fact is that she has an overwhelming advantage in experience over Obama, and she is the reason the electoral map will change dramatically after Friday's debate.

I predict McCain will win at least 55% of the vote and 45 states. The American people are too smart to elect a Marxist homosexual.

This election will be the final death knell of liberalism and the Democrat Party.

Posted by Lord Basil | September 28, 2008 11:42 AM
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Is it true that the Veep debate isn't going to have any rebuttals? So it'll just be two minute stump speeches? If so, Palin might do just fine. She's shown she can deliver a memorized speech.

Posted by Big Sven | September 28, 2008 11:43 AM
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Tina Fey sure has Palin nailed. Should the worst happen, Fey has an easy gig for the next 4-8 years.

Posted by Reverse Polarity | September 28, 2008 11:49 AM
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Posted by Gurldoggie | September 28, 2008 11:52 AM
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If I was Tina Fey I'd shave my head and get contacts.

Posted by monkey | September 28, 2008 11:59 AM
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@7 I have a sick feeling she'll do better than expected, and McGrumpy's henchmen will try and spin just-good-enough into Presidential. They'll claim victory no matter the reality, because, you know, the media is mean.

@6 Lord Basil, I've found that you people really know how to command a good roast beef Sunday dinner. How is your cook? Can I come over?

Posted by it'smarkmitchell | September 28, 2008 12:17 PM
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@7
Yes, it was one of the Mccain camps demands before they would agree to a VP debate. It is the first time that the VP debate has ever been dumbed down, so to speak.

And I'll have to admit, as has been pointed out, Tina Fey makes Palin look smarter than she is. Maybe the Mccain machine can hire Fey to fill in for Palin at the debate.

Posted by Sad Comment | September 28, 2008 12:30 PM
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I'll have some of what Lord Basil is smoking.

Posted by MadDogM13 | September 28, 2008 12:43 PM
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@6 - "The American people are too smart to elect a Marxist homosexual."

WTF? Where the hell did that piece of stupid come from?

Posted by Calpete | September 28, 2008 12:45 PM
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@14
Oh he pops up from time to time, to make comments which he knows are blatantly false but like a child seeking attention he desperately hopes people will react and interact with him. Best to just ignore him so that he'll go back to the children's table in a huff while the adults continue the conversation.

Posted by Sad Comment | September 28, 2008 12:57 PM
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@11: blah.

Posted by Big Sven | September 28, 2008 1:22 PM
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SNL had better ride this Sarah Palin thing hard all the way into November, because it's the only reliably funny shtick they've got.

Posted by Greg | September 28, 2008 1:37 PM
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@16 Huh?

Posted by it'smarkmitchell | September 28, 2008 1:46 PM
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The Tina Fey bit was funny, but I thought Darrell Hammond's "Bill Clinton" bit during Weekend Update was much funnier, albeit in a sad, pathetically true kind of way. See if you can get Bill Clinton to say Barack's name... And his line about "Sometimes women will be uncomfortable doing something at first..." cracked everyone, including him, up.

Posted by Jakey | September 28, 2008 2:08 PM
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You people who think Palin is going to completely bomb in the debate have been drinking too much Seattle kool-aid.

Posted by stinkbug | September 28, 2008 2:37 PM
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This would be funnier if it were a parody and not an exact mirror of reality.

Posted by prenks | September 28, 2008 3:10 PM
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As Mark Twain (I think) said: "The difference between fact and fiction is that fiction has to be credible."

Posted by Bruce | September 28, 2008 3:37 PM
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audience must be up for SNL - many of us watching now afer years of not bothering

Palin is just so easy for Tina, what a match

very funny indeed - if Obama wins

otherwise, bad language, thoughts of violence and tears for years

Posted by Carter | September 28, 2008 5:05 PM
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The scary thing about the SNL skit was they took much of material verbatim from the interview. Tina Fey does a more competent version of Sarah Palin than Sarah Palin does.

Governor Palin comes across more like Miss Teen South Carolina than a bona fide VP in the Katie Couric interview.

Posted by ted | September 28, 2008 5:46 PM
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Seriously? There aren't going to be responses? Bloody hell, who agreed to that? Are they going to give them the questions beforehand too, or do the debaters just have to figure out which pre-set speech they'll use to answer assorted questions?

Posted by wench | September 28, 2008 5:52 PM
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There is no way Palin is going out on stage without some electronic apparatus. I see her sitting in a room right now with a really bright light bulb hanging from the ceiling and about 20 people yelling out questions/answers/replys in preparation for the debate. I don't see her sleeping anytime soon nor being able to put on any lipstick.

Posted by 4f...sake | September 28, 2008 6:24 PM
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Lord Basil, good for you! Your comment is very Palinesque, in that, I don't know uh, you trying to make some sense out of make believe common sense. It's humorous in that not intended to be humorous - I can't believe that you believe it's not funny to think that what you're saying is the truth you believe. Otherwise, spoken as non-Palinesque, you're comments are disappointingly harmless. Try again, try harder or just ignore me.

Posted by Deacon Seattle | September 28, 2008 6:58 PM
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Demos don't get it.

Palin is an executive. A decision maker.

She's handled crises and made hard choices.

It's not her job to walk around with preconceived notions like a polisci professor.

Put her in a room. State the situation. And I bet she'll make the right choice.

So far, I can't say that about the waffling Barry, Hillary or Biden.

I can, however, say that about fighter pilot McCain!

Posted by John Bailo | September 28, 2008 9:01 PM
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John, is there a list of all these crises she's handled? I'd like to review them to see if she did in fact make the right choice.

Thanks,

Posted by stinkbug | September 28, 2008 9:29 PM
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Palin is going to kick ass in the vp debate. She doesn't need to know facts, she just need s to look good be right.

I am so confident that if I am wrong I'll let slog posters pick some one, anyone, and I 'll suck his cock!

Posted by John Bailo | September 28, 2008 10:10 PM
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How about answering my question above first?

Posted by stinkbug | September 28, 2008 11:00 PM
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JB, stay groovy, you deserve a little groove. Hey, you're last bit of analysis is the least offensive, most tried and true piece of burned out boredom I've seen since post 28. I'll let you suck my cock if I can knock your teeth out first for a good gum job. Tell me something more about yourself.

Posted by Deacon Seattle | September 28, 2008 11:07 PM
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I dummy.

Posted by John Dummy | September 29, 2008 12:40 AM
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@ #6 . . . When Obama was getting his Bachelor's in Political science from Columbia specializing in International Relations... Palin was winning runner up in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant.
When Obama was running the Developing Communities Project in Chicago, setting up job training programs, tenants rights groups, etc... Palin was attending a string of 5 different colleges, eventually getting her Bachelor's in Journalism from the University of Idaho. This is the highest level of formal education she has received. . . .
When Obama was attending Harvard Law, becoming the president of the most prestigious legal journal in the country, and graduating Magna Cum Laude with his Juris Doctor degree, Palin was doing the sports report in Anchorage... and fishing.
When Obama was running Project Vote in Chicago, teaching Constitutional Law for 12 years . . . serving as a civil rights lawyer and on the boards of multiple charities and in the Illinois State Senate for eight years... Palin was serving on the city council and then eventually becoming the mayor of a town with 6000 people in it. Which she then proceeded to put 20 million dollars in debt despite hiring a Washington Lobbyist to secure her tiny little town 27 million dollars in Federal earmarks. . . .
When Obama was serving in the U.S. Senate, traveling to Russia to hold discussions with Russian military officials on non proliferation, to Kenya to advocate for HIV prevention programs... Palin's number one job on her resume was STILL mayor of Wasilla.
Then less than 2 years ago she got herself elected Governor of Alaska. A state with a total population lower than San Francisco. And between then and now she's already managed to become the subject of a formal ethics probe by her own Republican dominated legislature for abuse of power. But, then again, she can almost kinda see Russia from her house... wow! Foreign Policy Experience!
Trying to suggest there is any degree of equivalence between Obama and Palin's qualifications for national office is flat out insulting to Obama.

Posted by Jeremiah | September 29, 2008 9:47 AM
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Um, can I point out that a debate without rebuttals isn't actually a debate?

And the reason we Seattle Kool-Aid drinkers think Palin's gonna be a joke in the debate is that each of the few interviews she has given so far has been a real howler.

Running a city of 7000 and leaving it tens of millions of dollars in debt isn't exactly a resume builder, Fail-o.

I know people who've run bigger nonprofits and left them financially sound, and they can tell you what the "Bush Doctrine" is to boot.

Posted by Mr. X | September 29, 2008 9:51 AM
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We were watching this during our annual theatre retreat, and someone passing by saw the image of Fey as Palin and asked us why the hell we were bothering to watch that interview "again". It took her several seconds to realize it wasn't really Palin she was seeing.

Kudos to Ms. Fey for absolutely nailing that insipid response verbatim, and I truly hope her wish to not have to do this after November 4th comes true.

Posted by COMTE | September 29, 2008 12:52 PM

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