23 November 2010 Who’s afraid of the big bad anchor

Palin, in her house of straw and hypocrisy

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

“Speaking to Fox New's Sean Hannity in an interview to air Monday, Palin said she wants nothing to do with Katie Couric, the CBS Evening News anchor who's line of questioning facilitated one of the most memorable political foibles of the 2008 presidential campaign.



"As for doing an interview, though, with a reporter who already has such a bias against whatever it is that I would come out and say? Why waste my time? No," Palin told Hannity of Couric, according to excerpts obtained by Time's Mark Halperin.

"I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree. I studied journalism, who, what, where, when, and why of reporting," Palin continued. "I will speak to reporters who still understand that cornerstone of our democracy, that expectation that the public has for truth to be reported. And then we get to decide our own opinion based on the facts reported to us."

“"So a journalist, a reporter who is so biased and will, no doubt, spin and gin up whatever it is that I have to say to create controversy, I swear to you, I will not my waste my time with her. Or him," she told Hannity in the interview Monday



Attack on Michelle Obama shows Palin's ignorance of history



By Richard Cohen

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/22/AR2010112204388.html

Worth the time to read this. Cohen exactly on target!



Cassi Creek: Once again the entry I had intended to write is sidelined by another utterly mindless pronouncement by Palin. (note that I afford her no honorific- there is nothing honorable about her) She has surfaced on the Fox News network to hurl invective and lies from the safety of the un-news programming that carries no truth and nothing derogatory with regard to the slaughterer of wolves and the English language.

In the act of pretending that she is not campaigning for POTUS, she has launched another attack aimed at Katie Kouric of CBS for daring to ask her what she reads. Somehow this question must remind her of how poorly prepared she is for any public office. She refers to it as a trick or “gotcha” question whenever the interview is brought up by any of her antagonists. I’ve never encountered a potential candidate for high office who couldn’t rattle off a list of newspapers, magazines, and books with no effort at all when asked about what they read. The only logical conclusion stemming from Palin’s miserable failure is that she didn’t, doesn’t, and most likely never will read.

Tied to here reminder that she studied journalism and communications is another glaring reminder of how alien English must be to her brain. If I were trumpeting my ability to communicate, I believe I would be able to voice it in better grammatical form than the garbled mess that spills from her mouth. She simultaneously proclaims that she will not submit to questioning by any correspondent, reporter, or journalist who will not allow Palin to form the questions, the answers to those questions, and then to spin them to cover her inability to read and speak English.

This smacks of totalitarian methods of propaganda distribution. Palin wants absolute control over what she wants to become the party line, the truth, the glorification of Palin by the media and the mob. The Tea Party mobs seem to be willing to accept her manipulation of the truth. Of course, the truth according to Fox, Beck, Limbaugh, Huckabee, and Palin need have no acquaintance with the truth recognized by the rest of the world. This is the King James truth, a false morality laid down by people all too familiar with ignoring that morality when it is applied to them.

This is Palin for the mob. When she attacks the intellectual elite for people who have no familiarity with the inside of a library or with news that isn’t pre-chewed, packaged, and spoon-fed them by various demagogues spewing lies and hatred on a closed loop; she’ addressing the lowest common denominator. She’s talking to the people who ghosted through middle school and high school because they could throw a ball or jump around in sequins while screaming some mindless mob chant. She’s talking to people who hate science because they can’t do the math involved, read the big words, or memorize a list of things and recall it a week later.

She’s inserted herself in the GOP/teavangelist hierarchy for eventual elevation to Empress, although Czarina might better describe her combined intellectual and emotional capacity. If we put her in the Julian line-up as she desires, she must either fill the role of Caligula or Nero. The others require too much sanity.

Someday now, Palin will wind up in a real interview and/or debate; one which does not allow her to pick and choose safe questions or refuse to cooperate with a moderator of someone else’s choosing. I want to see that happen. It will make the Katie Couric interview look like a love letter. Who’s afraid of the big, bad, journalist?