Friday, September 12, 2008
Palin Talks To Charlie Gibson
Turning out to be far more able than even McCain could have known, Sarah Palin continues to impress. Or as a remote anchor might say to Charlie Gibson, “Well Charlie, she hit it out of the park!” The interview with Gibson on Thursday makes the attacks by well known feminists all the more embarrassing. Unlike many of these women, who had benefit of husband or divorce settlement or inheritance to kick off or establish their career, Palin actually did it herself. One well-known feminist said Palin's home life was “a wreck”. (Unlike Obama, born to an unwed mom who was 18.)
You would think Palin's narrative would be a cause for celebration amongst women, even if there were caveats about policy, but the Procrustean bed of leftist feminism has little room for variance. This constipation of the mind caused by ideology is a theme that runs through our times. People not only sell their smarts to ideology, they diminish their character.
Gibson did all he could to trip Palin up. Recursive questions that didn't, as he claimed, simply “try to get an answer”, but were attempts to nail down ambiguous situations with impossibly precise responses. Palin did not bite. Gibson even tried a trick, using a media expression, “the Bush doctrine”, not indicating precisely what he meant, even when asked to clarify — a naked attempt to discredit. He could have simply said what he meant at the outset, “Do you feel American preemptive action is acceptable in case of dire threat?”
BTW, after Gibson questioned Obama in the Hillary debate about all the issues surrounding Obama's dubious decisions, associates and general character, none of which he had addressed previously, and which he never fully explained, he complained to a crowd the next day, “Did you see that? Can you believe this?” Obama expects accommodation.
Do you think Palin will whine about Gibson's questions like Obama?