Palin On Thin Ice (media is beginning to focus on her avoidance of the press)

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2008/09/palin_on_thin_ice.html

Palin on Thin Ice

With today’s kerfuffle over the media being kept away from Sarah Palin’s meetings with foreign leaders -- like there was a risk she’d answer their shouted questions? -- I’ve been mulling over Colby’s post about the Hannity-Palin “100 percent pure infomercial” interview. I watched both nights, then read the transcripts, and I think the interview hasn’t gotten nearly the attention it deserved. While I agree with Colby’s assessment that the audience was “treated to a political advertisement aimed at serving the interests of the Republican presidential ticket,” I think the Hannity love-fest offered a valuable look at Palin, perhaps more revealing because she was on such friendly territory. For all the softballs Hannity tossed her way, Palin did not come off very well, in my view. If this was a political commercial, I wasn’t buying the product.

The way she answers questions brings to mind -- I have Alaska on the brain, admittedly -- the image of a polar bear, jumping from rhetorical ice floe to ice floe, drifting some but eventually managing to get safely to dry land. No flubs, but you get the sense that she could plunge into the icy water at any moment. Palin has an odd tendency to use the same word twice in a sentence, as in, “The people of American realize that inherently all political power is inherent in the people,” or, about John McCain, “He can surpass the partisanship that must be surpassed to deal with an issue like this.” Or, combining word repetition with another Palin verbal tic, word dropping, this about the economic meltdown: “Well, you know, first Fannie and Freddie, different because quasi-government agencies there where government had to step in because the adverse impact all across our nation, especially with homeowners, is just too impacting.”

[Lancer]

1. She also makes another grammatical error

that most people stop making in the fourth grade. She adds an adverb where none is necessary, e.g. "My Mom and Dad, they...", or, "People in small towns, they work harder..." and so on.

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. They'll teach her to repeat a few simple lines (like they taught Bush).

[lob1]

2. She surpassed my low expectations of her surpassing anything.

[opihimoimoi]

3. Part Stump and Part Sermonesque......very clever way to overwhelm the igs and the BWed

not this time girl....

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. "Swing voters" aren't really up on subtle media trends.

They aren't that politically sophisticated. They need someone to connect the dots.

That's what Obama, Biden and their surrogates are supposed to be doing. The political operatives on the other side.. .. schooled at the Atwater/Rove Academy in the art of playing the MSM like a bow fiddle.... KNOW what they are doing by keeping her under wraps.

Our people have to NOT cooperate with that strategy.

[Cleita]

5. When Andrea Mitchell goes on Rachel Maddow's show and

disses her about this, it certainly indicates that the screw is turning.

[curious one]

6. Andrea said today that McLame camp want to do damage control

up to the debate she will be off limit and after debate she is available. They know she is a time bomb and don't want to create any issues that may come up in her debate.

[Lancer]

9. This begs the question, why would the McCain camp

choose a time bomb for VP when they were already in damage control mode?

I think they thought her anonymity would insure a rather lukewarm reaction to her (forgetting that everyone in the world but * and McLame know how to use the google.)

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. Dear Media, let me explain

Sarah Palin is a know-nothing motherfucker up for the second highest office in the land. That is terrifying to most people, as McCain's precipitous drop in the polls after her initial know-nothing performance demonstrates. Therefore, she must not be allowed to make additional know-nothing performances if avoiding them is at all possible. I know that you know this, and some weird and silly game prevents you from saying it, but I just wanted to reiterate that we know why she is not allowed to talk to you.

Love,
The People

[symbolman]

10. Here here!

And while you're at it John, can you explain why this simpering 20 lbs of shit in a s 10 lb sack HATES so many things? Women, Childen, Special needs children, animals, the environment, Human rights, Civil Rights, hell, she HATES America! Just about anything that We the People LOVE and Cherish, SHE seems to HATE.. Truth, Honesty, Transparency..

Get where we're coming from John?

WHY did you pick someone so incredibly boring, so unoriginal, who hates SO MUCH?

You couldn't find ONE Republican worth a shit, you had to go to the ends of the Earth to find someone who had PURE HATRED?

Everyone else was HATRED-IMPAIRED by Republican standards?

I'll tell you what happiness is John..

Happiness (at least in Alaska) are YOUR Lawyers Going to HELL, with a PALIN Under each ARM..

Good one alcibiades_mystery.. you Nailed it :)

[Botany]

11. anybody w/ an I.Q. above a carrot who watched more than 2 minutes ....

..... of Plain w/ Hannity could see that she was reading her answers.

but still :banghead:

Hannity: What is our role as a country as it relates to national security?

Palin: Yes. That's a great question, and being an optimist I see our role in the world as one of being a force for good, and one of being the leader of the world when it comes to the values that -- it seems that just human kind embraces the values that -- encompass life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and that's just -- not just in America, that is in our world.

And America is in a position because we care for so many people to be able to lead and to be able to have a strong diplomacy and a strong military also at the same time to defend not only our freedoms, but to help these rising smaller democratic countries that are just -- you know, they're putting themselves on the map right now, and they're going to be looking to America as that leader.

We being used as a force for good is how I see our country.