This is worse than the previous "Russia" segment. McCain suspended his campaign because of Sarah Palin not the economy.
The short version:
COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? ... Instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?
PALIN: Ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy– Oh, it’s got to be about job creation too. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions.
And I quote: "reducing taxes...has got to accompany tax reductions."
As Oxymoron suggests, just watch the eyes of Katie Couric.
Also, if this interview reveals the depth of her knowledge, and her depth is best represented by an evaporated puddle in the desert, there will not be a debate tomorrow night as there cannot be a debate with Palin on Thursday. There may not be a debate at all.
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Katie's eyes tell it all: WTF?
I occasionally use the 2002(?) documentary Spellbound in Composition and rhetoric questions to discuss implicit arguments and so on.
There is a line that haunts me whenever I hear Palin S-T-R-U-G-G-L-E.
A bright student in the sticks preparing for the national spelling bee is asked if he fits in at school.
He responds (to roughly quote from memory): 'There are kids at my school who only talk about trucks. They know everything about trucks and spend all day talking about tires and truck parts and truck things. If you ask them a question that doesn't have to do with trucks,they don't understand the words you are saying.'
There is also a quote from HBO's horrifying child-beauty pageant documentary Living Dolls that pops to mind:
"When you are on stage, don't look at me and ask for help. Mommy can't help you."
She would never have won as best spokesmodel on Star Search.
Or my sympathy.
Well, heck. I typed that almost as incoherently as she answers a question. I guess I'm a laughingstock in front of the world too.
Nope, nevermind.
Just her.
Well, McCain can't shed her now. The Base has got him by the sort and curlies. It's that simple.
But good God! How painful, these clips are. The public outrage over her vacuousness ought to be rivalling outrage over the bailout mess.
IF they debate next week, the Veep candidates. It would take the biggest choke in political history, for Biden not to come out of it looking like Cicero.
Heh. Just saw Jeralyn's writeup of this clip. Again. In terms of sensibility and in terms of that compact, hyper-sardonic writing style that we all love, she and Solon are secretly soul mates:
"Unbelievable that Gov. Sarah Palin could be Vice-President of the United States. She's practically sub-verbal and she makes no sense.
Here she is telling Katie Couric the bailout is about health care reform and that reducing taxes must accompany tax reductions. I kid you not."
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