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By: Laer

Laer — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:51:25 +0000

I agree with your first paragraph; Brian - it’s good advise and McCain would do well to take it. But “the most nonsensicle and frightening interviews I have ever seen?” Please. Take a breath. And have some sympathy. How well would you be faring if you knew that every interview you go to (except Hannity) will be like being thrown into a tank of sharks? Wouldn’t you be a little nervous? It’s hardly a real-life experience - it’s a phony reality designed for one thing and one thing only: to make Sarah Palin look bad.

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By: Jen Toluca Lake, CA

Jen Toluca Lake, CA — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:35:23 +0000

Thanks Laer. Excellent points.

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By: Brian Smith

Brian Smith — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:24:05 +0000

There is a real easy fix to all of this mess. If you want to avoid letting the media twisting your words, hold more than three interviews. If you want to be given a little slack when you say some very nonsensical things, say something logical, and let the press record it. If you think the press is gaining up on you, don’t let your handlers treat you as if you are not up to the task and need to be protected.

I have heard Palin speak only a few times. The first was a brilliant speech given at a convention. The other three were the most nonsensical and frightening interviews I have ever seen. One of these was by Hannity who basically had set up the format to mirror a paid informercial! If she does deserve our respect she better start showing us why. If her words were twisted, she better come out and start speaking with clarity. Until that time, noone can possibly suggest that Palin’s problems are not her own. She is the cause of her undoing. Even her poll numbers in Alaska are reflecting it. Her charm and appeal are built out of a deck of cards. It should not be surprising that the whole narrative is coming down so quickly.

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By: Laer

Laer — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:45:23 +0000

Niece - I’d like to see how well you’d do in an interview with a media you know is hostile and out to get you. You’d probably say something as ridiculous as, “I have don’t [sic] more interviews for my Job [sic] for Humana Resources than she has done for VP.” I’m sure Humana Resources is very, very proud of you.

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By: Niece

Niece — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:17:34 +0000

If you think it was Katie’s fault the Palin can’t do a interview…. you are a real die hard republican. The republicans tried to throw in a monkey wrench in the election. This monkey wrench has back fired, everytime Palin speaks. Every woman should feel insulted that jOHN MCLAME picked her as his choice. I’m sure she is a nice person, but VP of the United States of America she is not. I have don’t more interviews for my Job for Humana Resource than she has done for VP.

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By: cookiegramma

cookiegramma — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:28:18 +0000

How is it that you think you have availability that was not there forthis blogger? Unless you can back up what you say here, you are no different than the entire Obama campaign. The media I agree has not said a great deal about McCain, but that is because they are far too busy pumping up a man they cannot be bothered to investigate. Funny how not one of them ahs ever bothered to ask Obama what exactly his job as a community organizer entailed. By the way, katie Coric has been a total failure as a newscaster, she never pulled in the numbers that could help failing CBS news in attempting to compete with cable news. She came across as being rather witchy in the few seconds of the interview that I have seen. God love her, she is trying so hard to compete in a man's world that she has forgotten the first rule of a successful interviewer: setting your subject at ease. Oh well, she'll be gone before much longer and then I might even see if CBS has learned the lessons of having millions of people do as I do nightly, change the channel and watch real journalism at work.

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By: jack

jack — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:26:51 +0000

…you could tell from how choppy it was…the fact is they still can’t destroy her record or suddenly give obama qualifications that his record show he simply does not have…

…the media coverage after the debate was almost as low as the coverage of palin…obama can’t remember the soldies name has to look down to read…the poor man’s parents don’t want obama using their son’s name…AND the press gives a PASS to this very cheap move on obama’s part…
…mccain mentions that obama has applied for pork at a rate of a million a day…no coverage on that…

…that obama heads a committee that he has never so much as called to a meeting….which falls in line with obama going places and accomplishing very little…what prof doesn’t publish…unheard except in the case of obama…PRESS gives him another pass
…mccain objectively mopped the floor with obama…his depth of knowledge was amazing…the press doesn’t comment on that

…I cannot believe how people who support him do not reason and actually defend him by claiming there is no press bias…there is no point talking to people that lack objectivity in such a total way…these are the same people that said we went to Afgan and Iraq for the oil…well where is the oil and where are they to admit they were wrong…same people who said Kerry was the only one qualified to be president because he had seen action in war and Bush had not…well then why would they support obama…it is one contradiction after they other and like obama they avoid any in depth discussions

…they can attack palin till the cows come home her record still speaks for itself and is far far superior to obama’s and you’ll notice biden the experienced one on the ticket has already gone into retreat to prepare for the debate…well if he is so experienced and palin is such a newcomer why does he need to prepare…mccain barely prepared and was brilliant…shouldn’t biden be able to do the same thing

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By: jon

jon — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:36:04 +0000

I think you may want to hide this particular entry.
The actual fact, is that CBS didn’t air several very embarrassing comments, by Gov Palin.
If you make a big deal about this, they could play those segments, which will do a lot more harm to Gov Palin.
I think the continual media-bashing, at this point, only gives the media more fuel to scrutinize Sen McCain.
As much as you like to attack the media, they’ve been relatively easy on McCain… they still express the McCain narrative (the hero, maverick, etc), which over the past few years, he’s not been.
Better to just leave it alone.

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