NBC Nightly News just played Palin's Couric interview about Russia WOW was that bad

[underpants]

The entire video is here somewhere and as Brian Williams said this was be all over the place by tomorrow.

Chuck Todd weighed in. A rough 10 days for Palin but the financial crisis has consumed attention from the fact that her numbers of "plummeting" "a plurality now says she is not ready to be President" Todd added that Republicans are telling him that this is a big mistake by the McCain campaign-no local interviews, no print interviews, every interview is dissected because of the little access we are getting of her. They haven't let her get comfortable and provided more information even if it is just get-to-know/sell her as a personality.

Man that was brutally bad "..I don't know.. you know" Couric finds the word she was looking for "mocked" "yeah mocked" Then the head in the clouds answer about whatever is in Putin's head, the strange bit about Russian entering US airspace (they do?), and at the end she seems to forget the word "Alaska" saying "our state"

[grannie4peace]

1. wasn't it funny?

[Shiver]

55. I didn't see it...

... but from what I've heard, I've been able to cobble together something that sounds like a good summary:




Actually, I did see it. I just wanted an excuse to post that...

[workinclasszero]

56. Oh shit thats funny!

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Fleshdancer]

2. yeah, the airspace thing was extra odd

Putin has had a passport for longer than one year so he has been in many different airspaces. Sorry Alaska, this doesn't make you special. :rofl:

[Tallison]

9. "As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America..."

"...where do they go?"

So far my favorite quote of the campaign. :rofl:

Man, I wasn't that incoherent when I was high every day during college.

[Fleshdancer]

13. ROFLMAO! "when Putin rears his head, they all go to Juno man. JUNO!"

Reminds me of my college days too! Fun times. :rofl:

[Tallison]

40. Munchin' on the yellow snow cones n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

46. Sounds like he has a gigantic head that Palin can see from Wasilla - and the ability to fly

[mamalone]

49. Make that *two* heads....

Or maybe even three or four! After all, she said "where do they go?"


She is really sumthin' isn't she..:eyes:

[workinclasszero]

57. Hey Palin can see Putin's rearing head from her back porch!

This is series!!11!:rofl:

[leftrightwingnut]

44. This used to happen during the cold war.

Russian fighter jets would approach our air space, sometimes enter it. And we would scramble jets. I heard it was the Russians testing how fast we could respond. Is she saying this still happens?

Right or wrong, it's a pretty stupid thing to say.

[Fleshdancer]

52. I feel so young right now

You make complete sense. I grew up hearing stories about stuff like that but I never experienced it.

[gemlake]

3. They should also play the clip where she says

the bailout is good for health care reform. And then makes some incoherent statement about taxes.

[Disturbed]

7. Aren't Alaskans even a bit ashamed?

At the very least, Alaskans need to mount a Recall Petition & & toss her out. She is corrupt & inept. The vetting process of her becoming Gov. must have been almost non existent.

[Fleshdancer]

17. I think that's what the meth is for. n/t

[Connie_Corleone]

4. All I got out of that answer was that Putin's giant head sometimes floats in US airspace.

[Tallison]

11. So big you can see it from the mainland!

I hear.

[GreenPartyVoter]

31. *snarf*

[Fleshdancer]

19. HE'S A WITCH! BUUUUUUUURN HIM!

:rofl:

[underpants]

29. LOL

:rofl:

[thatsrightimirish]

5. It was a good thing Couric did the interview

So they can't call CBS sexist

[Franks Wild Years]

8. Oh, I'm sure they'll try...

..I wouldn't mind betting that the smear machine is gearing up to tell us that she was a man in a previous life, and as a consequence was overwhelmingly unfair and - wait for it - !!SEXIST!! towards Star Bright Sarah.

[CakeGrrl]

25. Too bad they had to make Carly Fiorina disappear for going off-message.

:nopity:

[ErinBerin84]

6. haha, Chucky T

Time to redeem yourself for your "women are FLOCKING to Palin!" comment. You spoke too soon.

[cynatnite]

10. It was damn scary, IMO...

Having that person potentially in the WH making decisions scares the shit out of me.

[Arrowhead2k1]

12. Did she deploy the Great National Guard Airforce of Alaska to shoot down Putin's flying thingies?

I bet we have no idea how many times those pesky Ruskies have staged an invasion over the Bering Straits, but luckily our very own Palin was there to stop it before it even started. A true American/Alaskan hero she is for sure.

[chelsea0011]

14. "uhmmm, what's the word"? Mock? Yea mock. I laughed my ass off.

[FLyellowdog]

15. My husband about had a stroke...just hollering out loud!!!!

[jacksonian]

16. she's gonna be out, it's getting more likely

I still think her leaving the ticket is unlikey, but it's getting more and more like it every day.

This interview and the Letterman thing, troopergate still to come, sheesh. The more she deals with it, the worse it gets.

Even the base is going to start running away. Dropping her will not be about winning, but making her exhibit #1 in why they lost. And more theater, which is what the McScram campaign is all about - temper tantrums and misdirection.

[vaberella]

22. Troopergate is a mess. There's a tape now. They have recorded proof.

If she's not out now, she's going to step out soon. Or should to save McCain.

[Tallison]

23. Oh-oh...link?

I wanna know about it!

[vaberella]

28. Here's the link below:

It's about Palin's aide, Frank Bailey, calling the Troopers office in Fairbanks I think or Anchorage. This is where he starts laying pressure, you hear him for 18 minutes manipulate the situation and then he got himself stuck in a trap because he mentions Trooper Wooten's personelle file which he shouldn't have acess too.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=7152353#7161892

[Tallison]

39. Damn, this story is from the Anchorage Daily News

That's the fourth negative article it's run about her in two days. Clearly not a lot of love for her among its editorial staff.

[vaberella]

41. Nope, they do not like her. You should read the entire thread.

There are prepared rallies to start this weekend I believe which are against palin....hundreds/thousands are expected.

[Alhena]

18. The best thing is that Brian Williams basically said she was a disaster ...

in introducing the clip he said "we'll be seeing this clip all over the internet in coming days" and Chuck Todd admitted she was stumbling for words.

[renate]

20. it sounds like the story was actually about how bad the interview was

Is that right? (Sorry, it hasn't aired yet on this side of the country.)

Or was it just "here's an interview with Sarah Palin, enjoy"?

[vaberella]

21. Watch the whole thing. It was 5x worse than Charlie Gibson Q&As. n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

24. Can't wait for the debate. There should be enough Palin "funnies" for days of laughs at DU

[Overseas]

26. So glad the fundamentalist extremist turns out to be an idiot.

Because Sitcom Sarah could have been dangerous. She was cute, so if she had known how to shuffle those New Republican words around right, she could have been trouble.

Now it's more like she and her kooky family will be great on their reality TV show next year-- Governor Barracuda on the E! channel.

[KewlKat]

27. You can watch the vids on CBS here

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/24/eveningnews/main4476173.shtml

[tosh]

30. Thanks, KewlKat.

[NatBurner]

47. i'm scanning the comments in there...

some of those people are fucking delusional. scary.

i hope they're not reproducing.

[high density]

32. The part that aired tonight was even worse than last night's

I can't imagine how screwed we'll be if McCain/Palin is elected.

[Window]

33. I didn't think she could do any worse. Geeze.

[underpants]

37. She took the bailout to job creation, healthcare, reducing taxes, cutting spending

and of course we have to see trade as a opportunity not uh...um SCARY THING

God help us

[underpants]

34. bipartisanship ...bipartisanship. ...partisanship --watching it now

We can't see trade as an um SCARY THING

She is just reading out of the touchstone list of words

[sixmile]

35. Republicans have set the bar so low in this race

that the hurdles have become limbo sticks.

Once again, I feel dumber having watched this woman.

[underpants]

38. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[krkaufman]

36. The mystical word Palin was looking for was "caricature." I'm voting for her now ...

... 'cause only elitists would be able to think of a word like that without help.

[Tallison]

42. Oh, that's sad

I was wondering what she was getting at, and that's a pretty basic word. Her working vocabulary must be pretty elementary.

[krkaufman]

43. Yeah, and Couric should be admonished for rescuing Palin, there ...

... suggesting the word "mock", instead of letting Palin speak for herself.

[underpants]

53. She's "ATE UP" an Army term for someone in over their head or

(more often) so scared of screwing up that all they think about is not screwing up (and getting punished)that they don't focus on the task in front of them and continue to screw up. It is a nasty vicious circle. I saw it happen to people first hand and it is not pretty.

The way to remedy it is to give this simple basic tasks so they can't help but complete them and then you praise them. Eventually everyone gets out of it but it tough to watch, like this.

[krkaufman]

54. Yeah, I saw that "Ate Up" thread, and forwarded it to my nephew.

(one of 2 psychologically interesting threads I came across yesterday, along with the thread on "prisoner's dilemma")

My only disagreement might be that her lack of confidence may be exacerbated by recognition that she truly doesn't have the knowledge or skills for the job.

I've seen similar behavior in the corporate world. Thanks for the input.

[PatriotGames]

45. What a disaster she is. n/t

[TexasObserver]

48. OMG! The more she talks, the more obvious her lack of qualification is.

[LibDemAlways]

50. I think when the neocons went sniffing around for another

easily manipulated no-nothing to replace Bush, they figured she could at least answer a few media softballs. I'll bet now they're wishing they'd loaned her Bush's ear piece and whatever the hell that was they had attached to him when he "debated" Kerry.

She's scary stupid.

[AtomicKitten]

51. It was a trainwreck. Fabulous.