Couric Tees Them Up for Biden, Plays Hardball with Palin
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 at
12:51 pm
To mix a metaphor.
The Media Research Center has the details on how Katie Couric treated Joe Biden vs. Sarah Palin.
Y’know, there’s nothing wrong with having a bias. We all do. But be up-front and honest about it, eh?
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On how Palin is an ill-informed dolt: “What newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?” Couric wouldn’t let go: “Like what ones specifically?” and “Can you name a few?”
I don’t think her adoring fans on the Right know how tired many of the rest of us are of politicians who refuse to answer questions – especially basic simple questions. Quite frankly, given her answers, many of us (including conservatives like Cal Thomas and Kathleen Parker) are beginning to think that this governor is seriously under- and wrongly-informed. That she is in WAY over her head and not prepared to be in a role like Vice President of the US.
That’s not necessarily a harsh criticism of Palin. I am a very intelligent and well-read guy and I would have a hard time answering some questions (not the “what magazines do you read?” one, but others). But I’m not running for veep. You ought to be pretty well-informed if in some pretty specific and wide-ranging areas if you want to convince people to vote for you for such a high office. She comes across as NOT open to answering questions and as NOT being able to answer them even if she tried.
Many of us are beginning to suspect that she is anti-science, anti-transparency, anti-reason and just not especially smart. We’ve had eight years of what we perceive to be idiotic, anti-reason, anti-science, anti-transparency leadership in Bush and we want a change.
Well, as the MRC notes, if Couric, et. al. were equally tenacious with Biden, there would be less of an issue here.
And I find that “many of you” are suspecting these things of her because of the drumbeat from the press of what they think she might do, in spite of evidence to the contrary in Alaska that she didn’t force her views on the state. Suggestion, innuendo, and reading her mind have been the reporting of the day from a press that’s supposed to deal in facts. The whole “paying for rape kits by the victim” nuttiness keeps coming from the press that you seem to mostly trust, and has to be beaten back by the righty blogs. Unfortunately, newspapers and TV broadcasts are still viewed by more folks than blogs, so the Left gets its message out unfiltered by those very editors that journalists claim make blogs unreliable.
There is a leftward tilt in the press, and it matters. Maybe that just the reality conservatives have to live with, rather than point it out over and over, as the Anchoress noted. Pointing it out hasn’t changed anything; we’re still getting a “moderator” on Thursday for the VP debate that has a fawning book about Obama coming out on inauguration day. They’ve even given up the pretense of objectivity.
If most of your information is coming from the mainstream media, you’re being ill-served.