This is just pathetic. Palin didn’t go on Katie Couric again, as we were led to believe. She went on Katie Couric with John McCain as her chaperone so he could jump in and protect her if any reporters got fresh with any hard questions. Absolutely pathetic. McCain won’t be around to coach Palin if he’s not around and she becomes president.
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Mocking a voter’s question like that is incredibly rude. She hasn’t answered enough questions as it is.
Interesting — Katie with black glasses, Palin with rimless. Hmmm….
greyroadster
hope CBS has these under armed guards and secure digital copies around the globe. i’m rarely a conspiracy theorist, but i fear “plumbers” going after these videos to stop their airing.
henrythefifth
I like how he has to answer for her now. OMG.
This is getting pathetic. No wait, it was pathetic long ago. Now it’s just scary.
Aren’t they saying here that whatever they say to the voters should be disregarded? And wasn’t that a partisan event she was at? So they are saying that their own supporters are now issuing “gotcha” questions? It’s all so sad.
davidkc
This is next weekend’s SNL skit! No scriptwriting needed.
tlsintx
McCain is so about to lose it. up his meds! up his meds!
evan_la
…and what’s with her horrible posture? Didn’t being a beauty queen teach her anything? Sit up straight, girl!
http://planetsean.blogspot.com/ SeanMalloy
That Hanson dude she cheated with taught her how to slouch…
tlsintx
i don’t know which makes me sicker…McCain patronizing Palin or Palin liking it.
ShirleyGoodnessanMercy
Dear God, the Republicans have gotten so pathetic they just make me cry from pity. Such stupid, STUPID people. Just ghastly.
tas
She looked like a dog that had had its nose rubbed in something nasty.
Dave of the Jungle
Will John McCain stop practicing “Got’cha Campaigning” now, then?
lost_nacf_gop
Okay, I’m confused. I only see two Knucklehead Smiths’, where’s Jerry Mahoney? And Jeez, Paul WInchell’s dead, for cryin’ out loud. What the hell’s going on?
In some states, couldn’t McGeezer be prosecuted for practicing law without a license? FAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWK
http://planetsean.blogspot.com/ SeanMalloy
‘Taint funny McGee…
;-)
lost_nacf_gop
Yeah, well neither is the fact that she couldn’t come up with “Brown v. Board of Education” or “Marbury v. Madison,” or “Miranda v. Arizona” or “Griswold v. Connecticut” or “Dred Scott” or “Sheppard v. Maxwell” or “Bibb v. Navajo Freight Lines” or even freaking “International Shoe v. Washington” or O-N-E Freaking Supreme Court case of merit besides Roe v. Wade. She’s unqualified, a twit, a tool, a pawn, and an embarrassment.
http://planetsean.blogspot.com/ SeanMalloy
Not a criticism…Just happened into my mind at your mention of Edger Bergen’s puppets…A line from the radio comedy Fibber Magee & Molly.
Bush_Bites
I’m pretty sure they have more tapes of her previous interview, tho, and are going to play them on Wednesday and Thursday, I believe.
There are allegedly some serious howlers in it.
AngryOne
John McCain, September 29, 2008:
“Gov. Palin and I agree that you don’t announce that you’re going to attack another country.”
not to mention everybody’s favorite tune…bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran…
Jim_W
Let me get this straight. Her (new) position is to ask the new president of Pakistan (a country that was recently attacked by terrorists) to make sure the terrorists don’t cross the border to leave Pakistan??
Earlier today, the Palin handlers said that “Sarah Barracuda” really showed up for todays CBS interview. I guess they were impressed by this.
ydthin
I think this is ‘big fish in small pond’ syndrome. Competency in Alaska is apparently a bit more generously rated than competency elsewhere. I would just like to have a president that is not an embarassment. These two disgust me and you can really see the rage swimming under McCain’s surface.
WHYN0T
“McCain won’t be around to coach Palin if he’s not around and she becomes president.”
No, but Rove and the gang will; you know the one’s who have been pulling Bush’s strings the past 8 years.
Cjeffery
I bet she does not do the debate alone either. She will have a radio gurantted the intail spin will be she learned allot did very well better than anyone expected 4 days later we find out she had a radio but it don’t matter because for 4 days they have had control of the media. This will be true mark my words and we need to jump all over it now.
Kcunac
Check out the body language on those two!!! SNL just got its set up for Saturday night! (Am I the only one thinks Cindy just welcomed Sarah into the Sad Sisterhood of Women called the C-Word?)
sukabi1
slouching, hunched shoulders, closed arms and bowed head… yeah, I’ll bet McCain’s had quite the “discussion” with Ms. Palin….
http://planetsean.blogspot.com/ SeanMalloy
You know, the phrase “whiney ass titty babies” wasn’t strong enough…
Busboy
Letterman’s just an outward and visible sign of a deeper and more spiritual problem…..
unrepentant_expat
Eight years of Republican rule does anguish ones soul.
shrrrr
hmm. My bet is you’re projecting here.
http://planetsean.blogspot.com/ SeanMalloy
A special video message from Levi Johnston:
sukabi1
wow, now you’re just throwing out off the wall comments… how much they paying you to be here?
Busboy
Probly more than you’d pay me to leave…. ;-)
http://planetsean.blogspot.com/ SeanMalloy
Pay!?!?!?
Free off-the-wall-ism is extra liquid free with borrowed fundage purchasing bundled sub-primes to cover the hyper inflated valuations of our contributions…
SkippyFlipjack
Can someone explain the joke to me? Does “Gotcha Journalism” really sound like the name of a pizza place? Did McCain screw up the joke, and was actually supposed to deliver that line in response to a different keyword? Does “Gotcha” really sound like an Italian name to McCain? Or was he reacting to the mention of President “Zidari”?
I love how Palin repeats the words silently, “pizza place,” obviously not understanding the joke either.
Busboy
When you have 4 or 5 kids? Pizza place is a sacred invocation…
http://planetsean.blogspot.com/ SeanMalloy
Everyone knows serious foreign policy questions should be discussed at a Bob Evans or a Perkins…
DeppFan
This explains it: McCain “… chalked up Palin’s comments – which took place in conversation with a grad student at a Philadelphia restaurant — as a ‘gotcha sound bite.’ “Is that a pizza place?” McCain asked with incredulity (Tony Luke’s actually is a roast beef and roast pork joint, but they do serve pizza steaks)”
ah, thanks. what I heard as “is that a pizza place” was actually “it was at a pizza place?” I don’t think Palin heard him right either; she looks like I look when I’ve stopped understanding what someone’s saying but want to be polite.
Fireblazes
It is ever so obvious that Big John disrespects women. He was a rude old bastard to Katie.
ydthin
yeah, good for Couric for pointing out it was a voter. Pretty aggressive for her. Palin’s schtick is obvious now, it’s one talking point after another without saying anything. She knows how to ‘play’ politics at the local level and that is where the Sarah barracuda crap comes in… it may be, and I think it probably is, that she is one of those incredibly devious people who climbs right over others to get ahead. And get ahead she has, to the point of being the laughing stock of the whole nation. If she wins she’ll be the laughing stock of the whole world. Leave it to the rethugs to pick a woman whose only true competency is reinforcing gender stereotypes. Sigh…
Iowa_Democrat
What’s Walnuts doing up there with Tina Fey? Geeze, I thought Tina was brighter than that. She should at least have a clue about Hamas.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
Does everything he does. Backwards. In high heels.
Nah–not an apt comparison. More like Tucker Carlson and partner on Dancing With The Stars.
petefitSD
sorry, I’m going to revert to being a 12 yo for a sec:
OMG…
WTF?
there is no freaking way these 2 can be elected leaders of anything, except maybe the chancellor and vice chancellor of fantasy land
I’ll take Tina Fey and Darrell Hammond over these 2 any day…(it’s a toss up between Katie and Amy Pohler though…)
http://blog.stevious.com Stevious
So that’s why McCain blew off Letterman…
http://planetsean.blogspot.com/ SeanMalloy
To assist Governor Palin’s supporters the networks will offer a VP debate feed captioned for the thinking impaired…
KarenMrsLloydRichards
Palin did not know what Gaza or Hamas are. Pull the plug on her now. Pull the plug! Pull the plug! Pull the plug!
An_American_Karol
No, Karen….keep her. If McCain dumps her, he will get Lieberman and a bounce in the polls.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
Good point. Still, 5 more weeks of this…
sukabi1
really??? NO ONE likes Lieberman.
Busboy
Not everyone buys “name brand” hosiery…….
lucky hussein
back to the markets…. hang seng opens in 30mins… look out below!…nikkei down 5%
An_American_Karol
Poor McCain. Instead of picking a pit bull to attack his opponent, he picked a tea cup poodle.
Busboy
Of course, Biden’s only got one oar in the water most of the time himself….
Fireblazes
At least he has an oar.
Busboy
point!
DeppFan
Republicans are hoping Americans will apply “the soft bigotry of low expectations” when judging Palin’s debating skills on Thursday.
They’re serving up their own brand of affirmative action.
shrrrr
you’re right. The dumbing down process is how Republicans have destroyed America. Look at busboy.
unrepentant_expat
You must admit she looks cute on her training wheels.
shrrrr
You gotta hand it to CBS for the ability to keep McToast’s involvement quiet until now. I wonder what the third instalment will bring??? Must be real good.
tarmel
This WASN’T gotcha journalism. She was talking to a VOTER. Do they realize how RIDICULOUS they look?!
http://planetsean.blogspot.com/ SeanMalloy
Gotcha citizenilism really puts a damper on free salmon…
RIPWAMU
I thought Palin was being snide when she talked about a voter/constituent. Her claws started to come out for a brief second. Doesn’t anyone on that staff she the ridiculousness of all this? Not that I mind since I can’t stand either of them and the thought of them being in charge makes me want to run to a border.
jebauer
Community organizer, voter… same difference… what a bunch of assholes…
Busboy
Forget the debates. I’m wondering if there shouldn’t be a presidential IQ test. I think both Obama and McCain would fail…..
dad
is that what you think?
unrepentant_expat
thinking was not part of that process.
sukabi1
We know McCain and Palin would fail… and I’m pretty sure Busboy shouldn’t attempt to take it, he’d look even more foolish than he currently does.
Busboy
Sometimes the “fool” is smarter than the King. The trick is to teach and lead the King without insulting him…..
sukabi1
hope your fortune cookie business pays off.
Busboy
absolutely
sukabi1
Katie should have complimented her on her Tina Fey outfit.
Ma’at
Wow. Horrible. Someone PLEASE make sure she doesn’t have an earpiece during the debates so she can get answers. This is SAD. Could you imagine Obama having to chaperone Biden? Hell, I can’t even imagine Bush having to Chaperone Quayle. This is BAD.
http://planetsean.blogspot.com/ SeanMalloy
She could hide a pretty powerful transmitter/receiver in her updo…
Ma’at
LOL Good point.
Kelly2
So now from the Town Hall loving McCain answering a voter’s question is Gotcha journalism? Just when I think the McCain campaign can not get any more pathetic they prove me wrong again.
MarxMarvelous
Please let Obama vote “present” Wed. :-) It’d would be fitting.
sukabi1
Ok, the debate and her comment was on Friday… it took her 2 days to memorize her lines, with Grampa Daddy sitting next to her with his taser ready in case she screwed up…
Good job!
And of course it’s the media’s fault… Good gravy, is he that stupid to keep pushing that crap?
HelenaMontana
He gonna sit next to her at the debate on Thursday, too?
Busboy
Mexico? Canada? Go where they think like you think. Try Venezuela, the socialist paradise…
DeppFan
Maybe Ms. Palin can find her biggest supporters by time-traveling to when dinosaurs and humans co-existed.
You know, like Fred, Barney and Dino.
http://planetsean.blogspot.com/ SeanMalloy
You know, a time machine would explain Team McCain’s causality problem…
unrepentant_expat
Isn’t that where the government divvies out the proceeds from from the oil revenue, or was that Alaska?
devis1
great smackdown!!
mmcla23
Visit to the principal’s office with dad.
michaelt
i see this and the first thing that comes to mind is……Mexico or Canada? Hmmm.
http://planetsean.blogspot.com/ SeanMalloy
To show my own age…
So Sherri Lewis says, “I’ll let Lambchop speak for herself…”
jebauer
LOL
Busboy
Women are usually no match for men in a debate. It’s that genetic subserviancy thingy…
DeppFan
Yeah, Rick Lazio might disagree with that.
Busboy
Oh, yeah, forgot about Rick. Please disregard previous comment……..
threeaces
Can these freaking get any worse.
hit_escape
Hey! She brought her Life-line with her! Better get a different Life-line Sarah, this one’s a little long in the tooth.
Busboy
I’m sure Biden will pluck her feathers one by one on thursday…..
DonQ
Do you think McCain will stand next to Palin in the debate? And look down her blouse and fiddle with his fingers?
http://petgazette-pets.com OleHippieChick
He’s always diddling his wedding ring when she’s around.
tlsintx
Always!!
KarenMrsLloydRichards
The debate will be a major test of just one thing for Biden: his restraint (that’s why he could lose it). Otherwise, it’s a test of her ability to know ANYTHING and articulate it clearly (and that’s why she will lose it).
Cpeterka
So, So, Sad.
Dad having to sit in on the interview.
Geee’s !!!
DonQ
How unbelievably patronizing and demeaning to women!
Besides all that, what’s McCain fiddling with – his wedding ring?
grandma
I noticed that too….he does the same thing when he’s standing next to her at their campaign rallies…..fiddles with his fingers.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
His nervous energy manifested, unconsciously, in a wavering commitment to his own marriage.
charles33
Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Freud, 1901.
Absolutely bang on.
grandma
That was really pathetic…..how can Palin sit there and be treated like that by him….answering the question for her…….
They are both pathetic…..and McCain is just plain ‘creepy’.
dad
i panicked there for a minute.
HereinDC
Geeze,Was Joe Lieberman sitting right behind McCain when he got the answer wrong?
dad
no. but lieberman was standing behind palin at one of her recent events
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