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Annoyed with Katie; Sarah, You Just Don't Understand
According to Sarah she was annoyed with Katie Couric because she didn't let her tell Americans how Obama would raise their taxes and McCain would lower them, and how McCain would save health care. Well, son of a gun and spit on my shoe! She is goin' all around Jack Robinson's barn!
Well, she has the McCain campaign to thank for that: Sarah, we don't know ya. You haven't let us get to know ya either. You have stayed away from reporters, and so Katie was tryin' to give us a window into who ya are...wink, wink!
So, with all respect, your negative comments about Obama carry no more weight than some guy we find ourselves sitting next to at the bus stop until you let us know who the hell you are and where you're comin' from.
So Katie was right, and you were wrong. Until you show us that you have put any effort and thought into issues that actually affect our country, we'll wait for ya to get back to us! Wink! Wink!
(adjusts rack unobtrusively while checking blackberry)
Comments (14)
This is fabulous, Jan! So good to see you again! Spouting you are! Unlike she.
October 4, 2008 9:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
That should have read "spout the truth."
Sorry.
October 4, 2008 12:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
And I think I had also posted that Bob Herbert's column this morning hit similar notes. (but maybe I posted that elsewhere)
October 4, 2008 12:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks, Always good to hear from you too.
October 4, 2008 12:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jan, ya hit er ware it hurts ta sit!
I am disillusioned with the republican attempt to play the stupid card and expect to get away with it. As you so eloquently state above, people need to know where you're coming from first. Once you've established a base, then they are prepared to listen. Palin has never established a base with the public so public rejection of her is to be expected. She's nothing more than a gold-digger looking for an opportunity to cash in before anyone realizes she's pawning fool's gold.
October 4, 2008 9:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
I was struck when she made the comment about being annoyed with Katie for not being able to spout her talking points and about getting "clobbered" regardless of her answers to questions. A couple of thoughtful, knowledgeable answers would have gone a long way to give her some validity. She thinks he has validity just because she was plucked out of Alaska by John McCain to save his campaign. The idea of earning respect is a concept she truly doesn't get.
Can you imagine if Sarah Palin was a blonde?
October 4, 2008 10:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
I too was puzzled at her disdain for Couric. I wonder if she has ever sat down and intently watched an interview? It's no brainer that people who listen to interviews are looking for acknowledgment by the interviewee on specific questions, such as their position and the reasons that justify their stance on the issue. Platitudes are not reasons, yet Palin seems to rely upon them exclusively. Perhaps because they carry no weight and no one will challenge her for specifics.
I suspect Palin has been allowed to meander from factual discussion simply because of her hockey-mom status she wears as an apron. You may call it sexist, but she's the one who is promoting the image I'm seeing.
October 4, 2008 10:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Glad to see your avatar is back; it disappeared for a little while!
October 4, 2008 11:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not seeing her avatar.... strange morning this.
October 4, 2008 12:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
First, I think it's hilarious, Jan, that you think we at TPM are not the equivalent to some guy sitting at a bus stop. LOL!
Second, I think it's hilarious that the high school point guard advanced the ball past the high school cheerleader.
October 4, 2008 10:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ready, I may disagree with you very often, but I believe that you have put way more thought into your opinions than Sarah has. You show up. You write about what you think and you say why. You may say negative things that grate at me, but you have an actual philosophy.
Sarah may have also worked at her "world view," but we simply don't know it if she has. She has given not one inch of information about herself. So when people see the youtube version of her minister purging witches and Saraha standing there all serious, it makes us worry about it because THAT is all we have seen! Katie gave her a chance to broaden our knowledge about who Sarah is, and all it did was annoy her!
She truly is like a stranger whom we find ourselves sitting next to, spouting facts and opinions -- we don't know if the stranger is smart or totally crazy. (Kind of the same as a troll on a blog site)
You, on the other hand, and my other "colleagues" here at TPM (myself included), gradually give a picture of who we are and how we got here. We may disagree with each other, but for the most part we don't have the opinion that the other guy is just making stuff up.
I know you had an LOL after your statement, but I am glad to have the opportunity to clarify what I meant.
October 4, 2008 11:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now you're talking, CVille! An eloquent clarification, and I mean that sincerely. I hope you take me at my word. Your clarification knocked my socks off. Thanks.
I have two opinions about the Palin/Couric dynamic, which I'll also share sincerely, although perhaps not eloquently.
First opinion: I've watched the painful clips, and I watched Palin's explanation of her behavior in those clips. Palin's explanation of her reasons for withholding from Couric matched my expectation of her reasoning almost verbatim. (It kinda freaked me out, to be honest.)
What I didn't read in Palin's attitude toward Couric was her level of self-confident arrogance toward Couric specifically. While I applaud anyone who outmaneuvers Couric, I think some people on the left are reacting to Palin's general arrogance more than to anything she actually said (or didn't say). Palin was confident enough to know when she was being treated like a hick, and she rebelled.
Who knows how that will play with the general public. Some people like rebels who buck the status quo/authority figures/the establishment elite; some people don't.
Second opinion: I think the McCain campaign instructed Palin not to say anything specific enough that could be used against her in the VP debate. Now that the VP debate is over, I think Palin will be more accessible and forthcoming in her press interviews. This may have been a fatal error on McCain/Palin's part, given how little time remains until election day. (But I also think Dems should be celebrating this blunder.)
Bonus P.S. (fwiw): I lived in Cincinnati for about 10 years before I moved to New York City. I went back to Cincinnati after a few years of NYC and was shocked to recognize the exact same street people I encountered when I lived there years before. The same people came up to me to ask if I could spare some change while I was plunking a quarter into the parking meter. What I noticed was how much cleaner and better dressed the street people in Cincinnati were than in NY. I've spoken with some of the scariest-looking down-and-outers in NYC (not always by choice, but rather due to a forced proximity). To this day, however, I'm never completely sure who is crazy and who isn't. But I do get what you mean, CVille.
Thanks for the exchange. ;-)
October 4, 2008 12:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Golly, we're going to be pals by the time we're done. Appreciate your comments. Question -- do you really think she was witholding because of her annoyance? My view is that she was annoyed because she came of looking like a hick when she couldn't answer reasonable questions.
She said she would get "clobbered" no matter what her answer was, but considering that she didn't actually GIVE an answer that was only an excuse. I hadn't thought about her being instructed not to make any statements that could hurt her in the debate, but why would they let her have that interview in the first place? I expected the Couric interview to be lightweight and substance-free. I have a feeling the McCain camp expected the same thing.
If this truly was planned then she certainly cut her nose off to spite her face, because it hasn't helped her cause -- except that it set the bar for the debate at rock bottom.
I simply can't believe that a person with normal ego would know an answer to a question and pretend ignorance like she did for some higher(?) cause, or out of pique.
October 4, 2008 1:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, and as to her arrogance, yes, that bugs me mightily! When she chastised Obama with her speech at the convention, using the word, "Senator" like a librarian fussing at a loud kid; I thought, "Who does she think she is?
I plead guilty to the "Sarah-Palin-is-an-arrogant- dip-who-doesn't-know-her-limitations-and-needs- to-be-taken-down-a-peg" crew. Guilty as charged. If Barack Obama talked that way to and about George Bush or John McCain he would be run out of town on a rail. They call him "uppity" because he is right on the issues; they call him "elitist" because he is intelligent. I'm sure some people think he is arrogant too, but that is just because he is running for president -- how DARE he do that?
October 4, 2008 1:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
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