LAT Skewers Palin's Interview Performance - "rambling, marginally responsive and even more adrift"

[jefferson_dem]

Palin talks to Couric -- and if she's lucky, few are listening
The financial crisis has an upside for the Republican vice presidential candidate: It takes the spotlight away as she begins answering more pointed questions from the media.

By JAMES RAINEY, ON THE MEDIA
September 26, 2008

A global financial crisis and a not-quite-suspended presidential campaign dominated newspaper front pages and television reports over the last couple of days.

Bad news for America. But good news for Sarah Palin.

The economic crisis and John McCain's surprising response have drawn attention away from the Republican vice presidential nominee just as she has started to answer more pointed questions from the media.

Her third nationally televised interview, with CBS anchor Katie Couric, found Palin rambling, marginally responsive and even more adrift than during her network debut with ABC’s Charles Gibson.

In a 40-minute session with Couric that aired Wednesday and Thursday nights, the Alaska governor defended her puzzling claim that geographic proximity makes her some sort of expert on Russia; went nearly blank when queried about McCain's achievements as a big-business regulator; agreed America "may find itself" on the road to another Great Depression; and, promoting a troop surge in Afghanistan, casually suggested that it "will lead us to victory there, as it has proven to have done in Iraq."

The last statement couldn't help but conjure an image from 2003 -- President Bush beaming in that green flight suit before the infamous "Mission Accomplished" banner.

Palin's unblinking certitude gave way at other times in the interview to a striking imprecision, as when she struggled to respond to Couric's suggestion that the $700-billion bailout might be better funneled through middle-class families instead of Wall Street firms.

"That's why I say I, like every American I'm speaking with, we're ill about this position that we have been put in . . ." Palin began, before meandering off in fruitless pursuit of coherence.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-onthemedia26-2008sep26,0,3542588.story

[bluethruandthru]

1. Hahahahaha!

"...meandering off in fruitless pursuit of coherence." :rofl:

[sickinohio]

2. That's a great line.

:rofl:

[liberal N proud]

3. Even Couric didn't patronize her

Now we know why they have been isolating her from the media.


She can't do the fucking job.

[pinto]

4. That about hits it.

She was pathetic.

[VWolf]

5. Oh please. The LAT was being

far too nice to her. :)