When do softball questions lobbed by Our Lady of Perkiness, Katie Couric become gotcha journalism? When they don’t allow Sarah Palin to regurgitate her memorized talking points, that’s when:
In a portion of her sit-down with Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron, Palin claimed that Couric’s questions — which produced a series of staggeringly embarrassing responses — put her in a lose-lose position.
“The Sarah Palin in those interviews was a little bit annoyed,” she said. “It’s like, man, no matter what you say, you are going to get clobbered. If you choose to answer a question, you are going to get clobbered on the answer. If you choose to try to pivot and go to another subject that you believe that Americans want to hear about, you get clobbered for that too.”
Later in her interview with Cameron, Palin offered a sense of what she thinks would have been a fairer set of questions. Unsurprisingly, they all would have provided her the opportunity to rail against Obama.
“In those Katie Couric interviews, I did feel that there were lot of things that she was missing in terms of an opportunity to ask what a VP candidate stands for, what the values are represented in our ticket. I wanted to talk about Barack Obama increasing taxes, which would lead to killing jobs. I wanted to talk about his proposal to increase government spending by another trillion dollars. Some of his comments that he’s made about the war, that I think may, in my world, disqualify someone from consideration as the next commander in chief. Some of the comments that he has made about Afghanistan — what we are doing there, supposedly just air raiding villages and killing civilians. That’s reckless. I want to talk about things like that. So I guess I have to apologize for being a bit annoyed, but that’s also an indication of being outside the Washington elite, outside of the media elite also. I just wanted to talk to Americans without the filter and let them know what we stand for.”
I guess if you want to see Sarah Palin on TV from now on, you’ll just have to tune into Fox News. Since they get the same talking points as Palin does, they are the only TV “News” outlet that knows the “right” questions to ask her.
Though I do agree with Palin that Katie Couric is annoying. I guess that’s one thing we have in common.
