From Charles Gibson’s interview of Sarah Palin on September 11, 2008:
Charles Gibson: What insight into Russian actions, particularly in the last couple of weeks does the proximity of the state give you?
Sarah Palin: [Pause] They’re our next door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.
Charles Gibson: What insight does that give you into what they’re doing in Georgia?
Sarah Palin: Well, I’m giving you that perspective into how small our world is and how important it is that we work with our allies to keep good relations with all of these countries, especially Russia.
Then a little while later in the interview after he presses her a few times about whether or not she’d be willing to go to war with Russia over Georgia if they join NATO, she finally says, “Perhaps so.” Well, so much for keeping on good relations with Russia in our small world.
When would you be will to go to war with Russia, when they have taken us over or before that point?
Jon, Russia taking us over? They’re not talking about the STATE of Georgia you dumbass!What friggin planet are you from? You are officially the dumbest person to ever post here.
My comment was a question to farther the debate can’t you see the “question mark”? I’m sorry you can’t make a decision, and have to result in name calling because you’re unable to have a thought process.
I’ved noticed someone took off posted items of the different topics, !!!way to go free speach!!!.
Goodness yesssss! Some asswipe posted the 21 cut-and-pasted spam dreck bullcrap of huge numbers of paragraphs on over twenty different pages. The first posting of it was allowed to remain. The rest was removed as it was highly tacky and also, as previously mentioned, spam dreck bullcrap.
Is that a CONSPIRACY? Yes, a conspiracy to keep cut-and-pasted spam dreck bullcrap off the website.
The speech here isn’t free, just as the speech in a newspaper isn’t free. We pay for it out the nose.
I have to say that although Palin’s comments may not appear strong, much of this is in the questions presented. Gibson went pretty far in looking down his nose at her. Being close to Russia in proximity can give you no insight into the nation in general. Gibson knew this when he asked the question. And she knew if she said, “None at all,” her comment would be excerpted as proof of her lack of foreign policy, no matter how deftly she answered the questions thereafter. The only thing she could do was answer as she did. Gibson knew this and has lost my respected therefore.
I do not agree with Palin on everything. She leans a bit far to the right. But she should be treated fairly. She has not been.
Gibson absolutely did NOT go far in looking his nose down at her. In fact, Gibson avoided asking a lot of tough questions, and didn’t follow up on many occasions when he could have and should have.
Valancy, you’ve proposed knowing what was in the minds of Gibson and Palin – and you just don’t.
I also fail to see what was unfair in the questioning. What’s not fair? I don’t just mean what you don’t like. I mean to ask how you think Sarah Palin was not treated fairly.
Sarah Palin got a controlled, edited interview with circumstances negotiated by the McCain campaign so as to enable Palin to look as good as she possibly could. How is that unfair to Palin?
Sarah Palin is asking to be placed first in line to become President of the United States of America if the elderly and ailing John McCain dies. What on Earth makes you think that asking her to respond to a reporter’s questions is unfair???
If Sarah Palin can’t handle Charles Gibson under carefully controlled conditions, how can she ever hope to handle the leader of Russia, or China, or Iran?
We’ve been given just 10 weeks to evaluate Sarah Palin before Election Day. A rigorous, extremely tough grilling is what’s fair.
The Gibson interview was neither rigorous nor extremely tough. It was kid gloves, and Sarah Palin still couldn’t handle it.
Valancy, Sarah Palin volunteered that her foreign policy expertise came from being able to see Russia if she went onto an outlying island. Charles Gibson would have been nuts not to follow that up, because it’s just a plain nutty claim on Palin’s part.