More of Couric's interview w/Palin. It's sooo awful....

[CoffeeCat]

http://www.blogsforjohnmccain.com/sarah-palin-interview-cbs-news-katie-couric-video-92408

I'm utterly speechless. I had my husband come over and watch it. When he wasn't laughing
at her, he stood there saying, "Oh my God...Oh my God...what the...Oh my God..."

No wonder they're angling to get the veep debates canceled.

She is awful. I thought she was bright. She is NOT.

In the first segment--she says her soundbyte. Then Katie asks a simple follow-up. She repeats
her exact soundbyte. She's a trained seal, who only knows the lines she studies. She has no
f&**king clue.

I'm ashen after watching this. I feel like I've been gob smacked by a giant medicine ball filled
with stupidity.

I'm sorry...I'll stop. I'm just...blown away by how one-dimensional she is. She's is an embarrassment to
women.

[Neecy]

1. I just watched it, too

It was just jaw-dropping. Terrible beyond words.

This is McCain's fatal flaw - his total lack of judgement, his snap decisions. Palin is going to be an anchor wrapped around his feet from now until November. With this interview she just ended McCain's campaign.

By the way, I was pleasantly surprised by Couric. She wasn't going to take that memorized BS and really pinned her at the end.

[CoffeeCat]

10. And don't you agree...that the questions...

Couric asked were not difficult. Couric wasn't asking her about brain surgery procedures.

When she asked Palin the follow-up question about Rick Davis "still having a stake in the company"
Palin was speechless. She had no clue. Palin just repeated the initial soundbyte.

The rest of the interview was a wash of gobbledygook. It was obvious, that she is so way over
her head.

There are so many lines from this interview that are fodder for the comedians.

Unbelievable.

[Neecy]

19. they weren't difficult at all

And especially - especially! - the question at the end asking what regulations McNut has proposed in his 26 years in Congress.

Now, if you don't know the record of your running mate, then you're seriously behind in your homework. This question should have been expected given the contradictions the press has noted between his bragging about being a deregulator and his sudden emergence as a fire-breathing populist.

It's very possible he doesn't have anything else in a 26 year Congressional career. After all, he's a run of the mill big business Republican. But they needed to prepare her with a coherent answer.

[orwell]

45. How about...

...um...McCain-Feingold.

Do you think she might know something about his signature legislation?

:rofl:

[graywarrior]

2. I just watched it from a link here

I was blown away by her vapidness. She can't think on her feet. She's a complete idiot. Choosing her was all about having a female on the ticket. We are in such dire straights here. People are actually supporting her. Oy.

[ladjf]

8. "vapidness". That's the word I've been looking for. Thanks!

[tblue37]

43. Or "vapidity." nt

[MadMaddie]

39. The more they hear her though they are falling to the wayside

of not voting or voting for Obama.

My Rightwing buddy at work said at this point he is undeceided because of Palin. And undeceided meaning he may not vote at all or vote for Obama. That is a huuuuuuuuuge change from before Palin was picked.

[krkaufman]

47. Well, a far Right fundie, as well. The religious Right would have been ...

... similarly thrilled with a male VP candidate with the same policy positions -- though her gender does give her a boost.

[yardwork]

3. You thought she was bright? I never did. She's really, really dumb.

She's no reflection on women in general. I've met few people - men or women - as stupid as Sarah Palin. She's so stupid, I don't think she realizes how stupid she is.

[ShortnFiery]

5. Yes, but what she lacks in IQ she makes up with sexual spunkiness and cold-calculating

manipulation of all those surrounding her. :shrug:

[LiberadorHugo]

11. So did Stu Ungar!

He was a damn good poker player and he shared my views on drug policy, but he was so crazy and unstable that I'd rather have Cheney near the button. :-)

[ladjf]

13. I can tell you from experience, dumb, arrogant and ambition , all

in one person is an extremely dangerous cocktail. They have to be subdued carefully.

[CoffeeCat]

25. I have had a couple of bosses like that...

...both of them were males.

They are lethal, because they are insecure. They realize how dumb they are, but they
hide it behind their arrogance. Many women are able to hide their dumbness behind
a combination of good looks and feigned arrogance.

You're right...these types are very dangerous animals.

I don't know if anyone caught the MSNBC profile of Palin. At every level of government
that she entered--she royally and completely fu*&ed over the very people who leveraged her.
The people who urged her to run for Mayor of Wasilla--high rollers that she met in aerobics
class--were people that she went on to destroy.

She did the same thing when she became governor. She eviscerated anyone around her that she
perceived to be more powerful than her. She claims she did this to "eradicate corruption."

Bullshit. Total lie. She's a corrupt piece of trash who tried to get someone fired over
a family squabble. She also lies incessantly (bridge to nowhere, etc). She doesn't give a rip about corruption
because she is a corrupt, amoral politician herself.

So why destroy everyone around you...if it's not about making the world a better place? It's
because she's a sociopath who enjoys the kill. Plus she's dumb, and she knows it. So, instead
of using her office and her power for good--she seeks to destroy people.

Well, her stupidity and lack of depth is revealed in technicolor in these interviews. She must be
insane by now--because she's orbiting in a world where she has no power over people, and she can't
just destroy those who speak out against her. She can't destroy Gibson, Couric, Obama, Biden or
the 65 percent of this nation who thinks that she's incapable.

Sorry I'm so verbose tonight...I'm really blown away by how bad that interview was.

[ladjf]

29. Good post!

Some of my main experiences with dumb, arrogant and ambitious were with bosses.

Now, intelligent , arrogant and ambitious can be worked with. You sell them on the idea that what you are suggesting will be in their best interests as well as yours and they are smart enough to accept the deal.

Dumb, humble is fairly easy. Mostly they will just do what you tell them to do.

Intelligent, modest, caring and ambitious is a piece of cake.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

37. Good rant - Do you think there's also a bit (or a lot) of pathological lying going on? nt

[yardwork]

40. I agree, and Sarah Palin is an extremely dangerous person.

[CoffeeCat]

18. I did think she was bright...

...and that was based on her convention speech.

I thought she was a very bright, charismatic woman--who was playing the, "Aren't I cute?" card.

We all know beautiful, smart women who rely on their looks to charm people and get what they want.
I thought she was one of those.

Honey, she's not even in the same league as those women!

She was well-rehearsed the night of the convention, but there is no "there" there.

She's about as sharp as a sack of wet mice.

[tblue37]

44. Her convention speech was written by someone else--for a male VP pick--but then

modified to suit a female speaker when McCain picked Palin. She didn't write it--she just memorized it and delivered it. That takes some eprformance skill, but not intelligence.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. What If People Don't See What We See?

It seems we are the only nation on Earth that thinks stupidity is a virtue when it comes to attaining higher office...

[ShortnFiery]

7. Remember Germany in the 1930s from our history books?

Intellectual curiosity was considered a character flaw.

[Neecy]

16. good question

When times were good in 2000, people could go with someone they perceived as cute 'n cuddly. We all know how *that* turned out.

Now times are so serious that we need serious people running our government. She should scare the crap out of anyone who isn't Rapture ready - and she is, based on her plummeting approval ratings.

Americans are stupid, but not as stupid as to vote for Palin because she drops her g's and uses 'ya' instead of 'you'.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

20. Bush* Was A Lot Of Things Including Lazy

But compared to Palin he's Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and George Marshall rolled into one...

If she ever had a thought in her head it died of loneliness...

[K Gardner]

6. "But.. he's known as THE MAVRIK !"

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. Isn't It Galling When People Can't See What You See

I detest Darth Cheney but I would never says he's an ignoramus...Sarah Palin is an ignoramus...I'll bet money she can't pull a 100 on the Stanford-Binet...

[CoffeeCat]

35. Yes, did you hear that on the Myers Briggs...

...she is a D-O-R-K.

A new category...all to herself!

[Imperialism Inc.]

9. Wow that was bad.

Sometimes there is exaggeration about our opponents bad performances but that was simply awful.

[The_Casual_Observer]

12. fargo!

[DefenseLawyer]

34. You betcha! n/t

[nc4bo]

14. **snaps fingers** I got it!!! I know who Sarah Palin reminds me of

(epiphany after today's Couric interview):

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/reading-in-jail-in-living-color/1179793795

Fast forward to 00:58 seconds of the video (watch it all if you want ILC is FUNny).

See the prisoner? He thinks he's speaking intelligently but actually it's pure gibberish. That's what I hear when I hear Sarah Palin speaking.

:rofl::rofl:

[CoffeeCat]

30. That was funny...

...and it was so true.

You get the very funny feeling that she is saying the lines, but she has no
idea what she just said.

That's why she can't answer follow ups.

[Mariana]

17. I think it's obvious that she was RECITING lines.

In the first segment the OP mentioned, it was word for word the same memorized response, she didn't even rephrase it.

[Samantha]

24. Like the Chatty Cathy doll I just posted about in another thread

The doll had about 7 messages stored in memory. Pull the string, one of those messages played, regardless. And that is the way it is with Sarah, pull the string and get a prerecorded message, regardless of the subject you are attempting to discuss.

[firedupdem]

21. that was absolutely horrible! She is not in any position to

debate anybody. I think he may have pulled his stunt today in the hopes that nobody would see this interview...horrible. She is waaay out of her league on this one!

[RollWithIt]

22. She's actually worse than Bush, she makes Bush look smart... I mean, she can't complete a sentence..

Just bizarre.

[BlooInBloo]

23. You thought she was bright? BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[mscuedawg]

26. Edie McClurg...Ferris Bueller's Day off....

...one day Palin's microchip planted in her head is going to get stuck and she'll look like Milli Venilli

[CoffeeCat]

27. "With your bad knee John McCain....

...you shouldn't be throwing anyone."

Love that movie and Edie McClurg was hysterical!

[mscuedawg]

31. All I hear her saying is "They think he's a righteous dude" as only she can say it!!!

[President Decider]

28. ** OMFG! .... That's TERRIBLE! ... To think McCain picked her for his VP is very distrubing!

[doc03]

32. I was sitting here watching that and thinking she

reminded me of someone with the square glasses and her nose and it dawned on me Peggy Hill. I did a search on Peggy Hill, I see I am not the first to notice the resemblance McCain is also a clone of Cotton Hill. http://ginina007.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/sarah-palin-looks-like-peggy-hill/

[eilen]

41. Peggy Hill is smarter than Sarah Palin nt

[doc03]

42. I'm sure she is and she has foreign policy experience

and speaks Spanish. I remember the episode when she made a trip to Mexico.

[bushisanidiot]

33. Holy crap! Palin is a MORON. This is some scary shit. Next president of the U.S.???

omigod.. i do not see how on earth republicans are taking her seriously.

the end of the interview was priceless when katy asked for specific examples of when mccain proposed more regulation and stupid-ass palin said "I'll try to find some and bring 'em to ya." and she smiled her beauty pageant smile in a way that said "that's my answer, don't ask a follow up."

sarah palin is a disgrace to women everywhere!!

[seabeyond]

36. but shhheeee's haaawwwt. n/t

[complain jane]

38. Her voice is like nails on a chalkboard

That's bad enough, even without the douchebaggery taking place whenever her mouth is moving.

[youthere]

46. This begs the question...

who do you think Katie will be voting for?