Couric wins award for Palin interviews; Update: Why not the Biden interview? Update: Video added
posted at 9:29 am on March 14, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Well, if this thread doesn’t get 200 comments, it’s back to Anna Nicole Smith posts for the rest of the weekend. Katie Couric won USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center’s Walter Cronkite Award for her interview with Sarah Palin. The school noted the impact the interview had on the election:
Evening News anchor Katie Couric was honored for her “extraordinary, persistent and detailed multi-part interviews with Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin” which judges called a “defining moment in the 2008 presidential campaign.”
She was given the award for Special Achievement for National Impact on the 2008 Campaign.
The award was given by Reliable Resources, a group run out of the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California. It’s mission statement says “Reliable Resources was created to help generate conversation and ideas on improving broadcast political coverage. Broadcast news, network and local, has declined significantly as a primary source for campaign news. Our project seeks to design and distribute tools which would make political news enlightening, informative and exciting to local and network broadcasters.”
For the conspiracy minded, some may remember that the man helped most by Couric’s gotcha moments worked for an Annenberg outfit at one time himself. Barack Obama ran the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, his only executive experience and a complete flop at improving education. Norman Lear also had an obvious political interest in seeing Couric torpedo Palin, as his “Born Again Americans” website proudly proclaims.
Did that have any impact on the decision to give Couric the award? I doubt it, at least not directly, but it certainly provides some context for the mindset of this particular slice of Academia.
Clearly, though, Couric didn’t win the award for journalism. Couric is busy defining “anchor” back to its original meaning. She has pulled CBS news to the bottom of the ratings for broadcast news programs, far back from her two competitors. All three networks have seen their audiences rapidly decline over the last 15 years, but Couric has made the trend line much worse for CBS since taking over in 2006, as this graph from TV By The Numbers shows:
Of course, quantitative analysis doesn’t address quality, which is the point of this award. Qualitatively, though, CBS falls into the same position, according to this Pew Research poll. CBS ranked dead last in both broadcast and cable news shows for informing their audiences. Viewers apparently realize this and have fled CBS as a news source. That’s what makes the name of the award so ironic; Cronkite was the most trusted name in broadcast news during his career and CBS the unquestioned king of the jungle. Now they’re a joke, and while that may not be all Couric’s fault, she’s at least a major part of the problem.
None of this comes as a shock to John Ziegler, whose new documentary Media Malpractice dissects the Couric interview and criticizes its hostility and advocacy. I’d send a copy to the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, but the advocacy is probably what they liked the most.
Update: I guess the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center never saw Katie’s crack journalistic work with Joe Biden. CBS crabbed at YouTube and got the video taken down, but the flavor remains:
Joe Biden’s denunciation of his own campaign’s ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by.
He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed,” Biden told Couric. “He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”
FDR wasn’t President when the stock market crashed, and he didn’t get on TV until a decade later — but Couric never seems to notice either gaffe. Why? She wasn’t out to get Joe Biden.
Update II: Ed Driscoll found the video of the Biden interview and has more:
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portlandon on March 14, 2009 at 11:43 AM
Katie isn’t much of a journalist and doesn’t deserve any awards for the job she’s done at CBS, but she did give Palin questions she should have been able to handle, and Palin should have expected an interview that was going to challenge her contention that she was ready for the White House.
dedalus on March 14, 2009 at 11:44 AM
I cheated my viewers, worked my a$$ off to get obama elected, and all I got was this lousy award!
TN Mom on March 14, 2009 at 11:45 AM
What sort of interviews did the likes of Couric do with Obama?
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 11:46 AM
^ Sort of like, “How does it feel that the hopes and aspirations of so many Americans are riding on your hunk shoulders?” “How does it feel to bear the burden of being so wonderfully wonderful?”
The newspaper answer in the Couric interview is all that’s ever focused on. It’s understandable, since moonbats can’t really take on Palin on the issues.
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 11:48 AM
That’s not what that article said.
CP on March 14, 2009 at 11:50 AM
I’ll have you know I’m only commenting here to counter the Dead Celebrity Threat. No mas!
Chap on March 14, 2009 at 11:55 AM
Couric has steered CBS news like a kamikazi pilot steers his plane, straight into the ground. It only seems fitting that she is given an award by Annendburg. Those two are a perfect fit.
Hog Wild on March 14, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Actuall Archie was Lear’s way of mocking Conservatives. We got a Box Set of All in The Family for Christmas and the lib. talking points of today are the same drivel that ‘Meathead’ Rob Reiner spewed in the 70′s, it’s amusing.
thomasaur on March 14, 2009 at 11:58 AM
actuall= actually
arghhh
thomasaur on March 14, 2009 at 11:59 AM
I notice the award mentions nothing about truth or integrity.
aikidoka on March 14, 2009 at 12:00 PM
The Couric interview was Palin’s low point in the campaign, but there are two things about the media’s constant drumbeat of this that bugs me:
1) Biden tanked with Couric as well. Maybe not repeatedly since the Obama campaign was wise to not to do multiple segments with the woman, but that FDR comment alone had 3 major gaffes in it. As bad as Palin’s interview went, she never had a moment that embarrassing. Yet the drive-bys like to pretend it never happened.
2) It was ONE FREAKING INTERVIEW!!! Was it bad? Yes. Should Palin and the campaign have prepped for it better. Absolutely. But we seem to live in an era where politics(especially for conservatives and Republicans) is treated like reality TV. If you have one bad moment, you’re finished. With Howard Dean, it was the infamous “YEAAAAAAARGH!!!” scream. With Palin, it was the Couric interview. And with Jindal, hell he was done before he even got off the launching pad as far as the media’s concerned after his post-SOTU address. This is not American Idol, people. When all we care about is that our politicians give great speeches and make as few gaffes while speaking as possible, well we end up with Obama. And look how great that’s turned out.
Doughboy on March 14, 2009 at 12:01 PM
But you see, Obama could never have a “bad moment”, ever. Display your ignorance by suggesting that more Arabic translators are needed in Afghanistan? No problem. Buried.
Like:
Eerily like the Soviets, huh.
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 12:04 PM
As Jonah Goldberg once said, Biden could suddenly scream, “GET THESE SQUIRRELS OFF OF ME!!” in the middle of a press conference and the media would simply say, “Oh, there’s Joe being Joe again.”
CDeb on March 14, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Palin was wise not to answer the newspaper question. Her answers would have been parsed for weeks with “Oh, she reads this, but not that. Why doesn’t she read that? Any responsible reader would. Blah blah blah. Yada Yada Yada.”
CDeb on March 14, 2009 at 12:09 PM
You must be watching a different Obama.
notropis on March 14, 2009 at 12:11 PM
In fairness, it does belong to CBS. That’s more like capitalism.
Ed Morrissey on March 14, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Except the way that she answered it played into a stereotype that she knew was out there. She could have just said RSS and talked about the way that she consumes information to underscore how Couric and the CBS Evening News are dinosaurs in their last days.
dedalus on March 14, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Certainly, if the motive for removing it is a fear of losing profit. Are there clips of the Palin interview still available? I dunno.
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Katie Couric winning a journalism award? Isnt that the definition of oxymoron?
Opportunity Costs on March 14, 2009 at 12:20 PM
That was just too easy to pass up. ; )
thomasaur on March 14, 2009 at 12:25 PM
I’d be leery of any “award” that’s associated with anything Annenberg and/or Norman Lear. Both are proxies for left-wing politics and Katie Couric is one of their milder, if not more persistent, talking heads.
She made no bones about her politics while chirping away on The Today Show for years, and her more somber tone at CBS (no doubt her interpretation of what a “real” and “serious” journalist should look like/sound like) is poor cover for her blatant advocacy for the most extreme left wing of her party.
redfoxbluestate on March 14, 2009 at 12:34 PM
My elederly mother hates Katie Couric. Has not watched her do anything for twenty years.
But when I bring up Sarah Palin my mother will say, “Oh, but she was so bad in the Couric interviews.”
I know for a fact that my mother hasn’t seen one second of the Couric interviews.
So, yeah, Katie most certainly deserves an award of destruction because she radiated that crap all over the populace.
myrenovations on March 14, 2009 at 12:35 PM
I forced myself to watch a few minutes of each of the big
three ABC,NBC,CBS news (Crap). The only awards I see for any of them is a “Look down your nose award”. Gibson wins the
gold. . . . Couric and that other guy share silver and
bronze.
Texyank on March 14, 2009 at 12:37 PM
Thanks. You beat me to it. Couric can not/does not even do her own questions in these “hard-hitting interviews”.
onlineanalyst on March 14, 2009 at 12:37 PM
But Archie’s probably the most likable character on the show. Meathead is vacuous in a know-it-all way, with heavy doses of hypocrisy, the typical liberal. Edith and Gloria are more like “moderates” — they don’t have a clue either way.
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 12:39 PM
Gee, I didn’t even know there was an award for journalistic malpractice. And how Ironic to name it after Walter Cronkite.
Just watch Couric & Palin alongside Couric and Obama. Couric’s just another Olbermann, a dishonest leftist hack.
I hope Couric fails. How about that?
Merovign on March 14, 2009 at 12:45 PM
I think another reason is that Couric didn’t realize Biden was wrong.
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 12:56 PM
NBC has a woman news anchor?
When did that happen?
Geeze, I gatta stop watching Fox and get outta my cave.
Kini on March 14, 2009 at 1:03 PM
This isn’t any different than giving the Nobel Prize to Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Arafat and a host of others or any other awards ceremonies to honor people who can do the most to insult and defecate on people with differing opinions. The bigger the fool awarded the bigger the insult to the opposition. It could have gone to Gibson, Williams or a host of others but I guess they think Katie is the bigger fool hence the bigger insult.
rsl775 on March 14, 2009 at 1:03 PM
Couric is as non-partisan as Pelosi! (See Pelosi thread.)
And to receive a Walter Cronkite award is completely fitting! Cronkite especially in his later years, spread the liberal propaganda with the best of them.
The best Couric interview I ever saw was with Ann Coulter who trashed the perky one.
Christian Conservative on March 14, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Whatta great graph (News Viewers by Season).
NBC doesn’t have far from where it is now to zero. Will we get a dead Katie bounce?
When she’s done at NBC, she can go back to playing Betty Boop in the cartoon series.
petefrt on March 14, 2009 at 1:17 PM
She did us a great public service. Can you imagine if Palin had some sort of role solving the financial crisis right now? We’d already be living in tribes.
crr6 on March 14, 2009 at 1:28 PM
Typical moonbat b.s. I know a couple of things: 1. Alaska doesn’t seem to have collapsed under Palin’s leadership and 2. Obama’s not been too impressive in his first crack at executive authority.
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 1:32 PM
Yeah, because the ones that do have a role right now are really doing a bang up job.
/s
CDeb on March 14, 2009 at 1:36 PM
***
Katie Couric is just another phony blond INFOBABE flying excellent AIR COVER for the Left Wing (not MSM) media.
***
The(P)MSNBC name fits well. Sarah Palin should have learned from her mistake in going on that network. SARAHCUDA 2012–stay on the Fox Cable Channel if you want fair coverage–and on talk radio and the conservative Internet sites.
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Let Katie interview Rachel Maddow and “leg tingle” Chris Matthews instead.
***
John Bibb
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rocketman on March 14, 2009 at 1:37 PM
Good thing we dodged that Palin bullet in favor of our new Precedent and his Band of Incompetents.
thomasaur on March 14, 2009 at 1:44 PM
Yeah, otherwise the DJIA might have dropped down below 7,000.
Oh, wait…..
CDeb on March 14, 2009 at 1:46 PM
She’s useless.
youngO on March 14, 2009 at 1:51 PM
Do see CBS making any money?..
the_nile on March 14, 2009 at 1:54 PM
Come back, crr6!!!! Defend Obama! Please! *waits* LOL
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 2:09 PM
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Gee… do you really think Biden is allowed near anything having to do with the economy? He’s probably in charge of getting coffee for the real felons on the team. Or, do you also believe that Geitner just made an honest mistake while using Turbo Tax?
RalphyBoy on March 14, 2009 at 2:19 PM
riiiight
joey24007 on March 14, 2009 at 2:32 PM
Yah Joe Biden is so astute I guess Gov. Palin would be a step down at Vice President. Not! Joe is a bummer. VP’s are nothing except a chance to groom for President or fill in at minor league events but a big opportunity to learn. Think about it now. Joe being a heartbeat away and two heartbeats Pelosi. I say Gov. Palin looks really good in comparison to that dynamic duo.
rsl775 on March 14, 2009 at 2:33 PM
I’m surprised: maybe they should have considered her work in New Hampshire last year for this award. Or maybe her work here.
Send_Me on March 14, 2009 at 2:39 PM
I teach a college course called “Introduction to Mass Media,” and I have 18 year old students (who just finished their mid-term exam)who would’ve said to Biden, if in Couric’s spot, “What in the hell are you talking about Senator?????? FDR in 1929??? ON TELEVISION?????”
So my question is this: Are my 18 year old students now ready to be award winning journalists, or is Katie just a freaking idiot???
Honestly, I think the answer to both questions is YES
chief65 on March 14, 2009 at 2:42 PM
Katie Couric should have known better about the Roosevelt TV statement. She was in middle school in 1929.
bw222 on March 14, 2009 at 2:56 PM
Please, people, click on the advertising links!
Tzetzes on March 14, 2009 at 2:56 PM
This is just sick
petunia on March 14, 2009 at 2:59 PM
Hey, I saw Anna Nicole Smith and Elvis eating lunch yesterday at a restaurant…
RealDemocrat on March 14, 2009 at 3:00 PM
I haven’t watched in years. I see what they’re up to in clips on “The Soup”.
qestout on March 14, 2009 at 3:00 PM
The funny thing is that Palin will probably be on the national scene long after Couric is gone.
Moesart on March 14, 2009 at 3:26 PM
FIFY
AZfederalist on March 14, 2009 at 3:34 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viih9b2R2e4
RealDemocrat on March 14, 2009 at 3:37 PM
Ed, I hear what you’re saying, but at what point does reporting of news fall into the public domain? This was an important gaffe because it showed two things: 1) the willingness of the media to just plaster over the displayed ignorance of a candidate from one party while embossing and embellishing the mistakes made by a candidate from the other party, and 2) it displayed an appalling lack of knowledge of one of the candidate’s for VP.
Unfortunately, in order to demonstrate this information, one must point to some sort of documentation. If CBS (or any other news organization) chooses to bury news that CBS finds to embarrass its chosen candidate while keeping information embarrassing to the other side, how can this documentation be preserved and distributed?
AZfederalist on March 14, 2009 at 3:39 PM
Those who produce will soon live in caves, while showing you and yours a big finger.
Entelechy on March 14, 2009 at 3:42 PM
“Caves” could mean Switzerland, i.e. big oil companies having moved already, for an indefinite time. Works every time. Actions, all of them, have consequences. Those darned carrots…
Entelechy on March 14, 2009 at 3:44 PM
Couric is who she is: a product of our times, the essence of mediocrity, and proof that crap floats to the top. No surprise there.
As for Cronkite, I was only 2 or 3 at the time, but wasn’t he the non-partisan, gold-standard journalist who declared Vietnam lost after we prevailed during the Tet offensive, which gave hope to a distraught North-Vietnamese army that discovered beating the US was possible as long as the Cronkites of the world kept feeding everyone misinformation?? (deep breath) This is a place-it-on-the-bathroom-counter award.
Erich66 on March 14, 2009 at 3:53 PM
Sure was… I was older than 2 or 3 and I knew he was a liar even back then. And Kerry, commiting perjury and backstabbing the military he swore to serve. I wish Ted Kennedy would take both of the bastards for a drunken midnight ride across some rickety bridge.
drunyan8315 on March 14, 2009 at 4:10 PM
I hope that Sarah is taking debating classes. Yeah, I know the interview was cut, etc., but she’s too laid back to deal with these jackals…the laid back demeanor oozing common sense, self-confidence and self-made success I, of course, find very inspirational and charming, but Palin needs to learn to play their game a lot better-and by that I don’t mean by becoming a RINO.
Dr. ZhivBlago on March 14, 2009 at 4:11 PM
I would do her…in a heartbeat
winston on March 14, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Coric was obviously out for a “gotcha” moment, but sadly Palin obliged.
mankai on March 14, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Norman Lear is a big-time Democrat supporter.
Obama
Daschle
John Edwards
Al Franken
Dick Durbin
Harold Ford, Jr
Debbie Stabenow
Max Baucus
Couric’s award leans left. I hope it falls off her mantle and shatters in a trillion pieces.
TN Mom on March 14, 2009 at 4:47 PM
I dreamed last night that Katie interviewed Barry’s Grandmother in Africa who has stated on several occasions that she was present at the hospital in Kenya when Barry was born. Katie’s first question? Have you ever been tested for Dementia or Alzheimer’s? Her next question, “Have you ever been to Hawaii?” Her last question, “Were you in a hospital in Kenya when Barak Obama was born in Hawaii?” Then I woke up………….
wtng2fish on March 14, 2009 at 4:49 PM
I am as partisan as anyone; I am a Sarah Palin supporter; but honestly if Barack Obama had done a sub-par interview with Couric as Sarah Palin has been perceived to have done, I would have been INTELLECTUALLY HONEST enough to admit that Obama had a bad night, that he wasn’t on his game, but that he would perform much better in the future. In other words I would know that his performance could not be taken as representative of his overall capability or understanding of the issues.
Even Tiger Woods has a bad round of golf. Is the sports world going to incessantly cite that round as evidence Tiger is washed up or no longer a major force in golf? I don’t think so, until you’re a moron.
Well the same applies to Sarah’s performance with Couric. Sarah had given plenty of interviews before Couric and she has given plenty of interviews after Couric. Anybody with half a brain knows she is not stupid or a moron.
For anybody to cite one interview as representative of a person’s capability or talent makes me wonder what schools or parents are teaching children in the 21st c. I thought education was supposed to make one more broad-minded and allow for various viewpoints to enter one’s cerebral cretex so as to help one more accurately judge an event an even more important to put it in its proper context.
That millions are not willing to put Sarah’s interview in a proper context not only demonstrates a failure of modern teaching practices and teachers must also leads me to believe that Obama supporters are unadulterated Fascists and the GOP must pursue total victory and a Carthegenian peace.
technopeasant on March 14, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Cheerleader Couric:
Give me an O-B-A-M-A!
**splat**
(just doing my part to stave off the Anna-Nicole Smith post)
TN Mom on March 14, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Well, technopeasant, we know the reasons for all that you mention. The lefties/libs/assorted left-of-center types crapped their panties the moment Sarah Palin appeared in Dayton, Ohio. They fear her charisma and ability to connect with the public. The moonbats were at it before she even finished speaking on August 29. They’ve been in Kill Sarah mode ever since.
I’m a big Sarah Palin fan as well, and I’ll have to admit in all honesty that one element in my fandom is the desire to see the sliming bastards ultimately lose. To see her wilt from the scene would be to hand them the victory.
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 5:11 PM
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 5:11 PM
What do you think about the moonbats: has the education system failed or are they Fascists or both?
technopeasant on March 14, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Fun Fact: The award she recieved bears a striking resemblance to The Order of Lenin!
Wait a second! Wouldn’t you have to help de-rail an American war effort to win an award named after Kronkite?
SuperCool on March 14, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Couric should never have left doing morning show gossip where she belongs. She is nothing more than a political hack. People should give this award as much attention as her, so called, news program.
oakpack on March 14, 2009 at 5:22 PM
I think probably a little of both. I do think a disturbing number of them are budding totalitarians.
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Giving Couric this award is like giving Jose Canseco a trophy for ratting out steroid users he played with.
technopeasant on March 14, 2009 at 5:25 PM
The DJIA is above 7,000…
LOL. At least you openly get your whacked-out ideas from fiction books now.
crr6 on March 14, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Thank you Katie Couric.
crr6 on March 14, 2009 at 5:34 PM
That’s your defense of Obama? That he kept his yap shut long enough for the Dow to creep back up over the 7000 mark? The moonbats at this site are disappointing.
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Katie Couric should get a medal (like all those medals that the Decider handed out) for exposing Sarah Palin as a semi-literate rube.
capitulus on March 14, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Makes more sense than the faux messiah’s “Profit and Earnings Ratio”. What a dumbass.
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Made any progress on that defense of your messiah? Need more crayons?
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 5:49 PM
crr6 on March 14, 2009 at 1:28 PM
And you could do us a great service be stepping in front of a speeding Peterbilt. I’m sure that would solve a problem for a lot of people.
bw222 on March 14, 2009 at 5:52 PM
You gotta love how the Palin fanboys always defend her by trying to change the subject. They’re implicitly admitting she’s an idiot.
Yeah Palin may have said that buuuut…LOOK OVER THERE!
crr6 on March 14, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Palin’s not president. Your dumbass is. Defend him. We know the moonbat talking points pretty well already.
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 5:54 PM
LOL. So Palin is a dumbass? You’re too fun.
crr6 on March 14, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Maybe next year it will go to John Stewart.
DarkKnight3565 on March 14, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Awwww….what a cute O-bot. Can’t articulate any defense of his dumbass messiah though. Typical.
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Imagine that dopey woman and her trashy brood in Washington. 8 years of GW Bush’s incompetence is more than enough. Let’s be thankful she’s somewhere in NW Canada – far, far away.
capitulus on March 14, 2009 at 6:00 PM
When was the last time a Conservative has won any major award? A Pulitzer? A Nobel? even an Oscar?
The winner’s circle always seem to have in it names like Sean Penn, Al Gore, Krugman, Jimmy Carter, and so forth.
DarkKnight3565 on March 14, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Pot meet kettle. The topic is Sarah Palin. Why keep changing it?
crr6 on March 14, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Oh yea, the place Obama thinks is governed by a “president”. I guess someone’s put the correct term on the teleprompter since.
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 6:03 PM
capitulus on March 14, 2009 at 5:48 PM
At least we have made some progress. She’s now ‘semi-literate’.
Pretty soon you might admit that she knows how to write and send e-mails. Oh right, you already know that. One of your mind-numbed robots is in handcuffs and knows that all too well.
technopeasant on March 14, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Because it’s fun to watch you avoid having to defend your messiah. Can’t do it, can ya?
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 6:04 PM
By the way, I don’t feel compelled to defend everything Sarah Palin says. She can butcher a thought with the best of them. But…if you want to compare Palin’s governing of Alaska with Obama’s inability to form a Cabinet…wanna go for it?
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Nice. What worthless state are you from, so that I can now say everyone from THERE is a moron. Ever looked at a globe, idiot? Oh, yeah, you must be the product of a public school education.
Oh, and by the way, Alaskans really don’t give one hot damn about the Lower 48. Talk about far, far away. Don’t need ‘em, and don’t care.
tcn on March 14, 2009 at 6:10 PM
*capitulus quickly consults American Geography coloring book*
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 6:13 PM
DarkKnight3565 on march 14, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Teddy Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for helping to settle the Russo-Japanese War.
Winston Churchill won the 1953 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Milton Friedman won the Nobel Price for Economics in 1976.
Charlton Heston won best actor for the movie Ben Hur in 1959.
technopeasant on March 14, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Tina Fey and Katie Couric win back to back awards yet their ratings suck. Their attack on Palin is the single reason they got awards and “strange new respect.” Now they are back to being no names. Fey’s show will get canceled in a year, and Couric will get dumped.
jencab on March 14, 2009 at 9:47 AM
Right on the money! Sarah is getting ready to hit the road soon in support of congressional and gubernatorial candidates she will endorse through SarahPAC. She will be doing more interviews heading into 2010 (Alaska’s Governor’s race and Congress mid-terms) and 2012. Sarah has received thousands of invitations to speak publicly world wide. Plus Sarah will have a major book deal during that time. Sarah will have plenty of opportunities to show the world what she can do!
Katie’s interview and Fey’s skits will not be relevant at that point (they’ll be dustbin material – old news). Thanks to the internet, the world moves at a fast pace. Election 2008 seems like it happened years ago to me.
sarahpalinfan99 on March 14, 2009 at 6:17 PM
This mockery of an award can be thrown down by garbage anytime, anywhere…
I hope she fails too, and she will…I can count with the fingers of my RIGHT hand of the viewers she will/would gain. Of course, CBS will prepare 4 or 5 segments of this travesty to try and catch some flies…how many times was that buzz around that she was gonna lose that contract?
The top notch of the thinking, informed audience are with the FOX.
ProudPalinFan on March 14, 2009 at 6:20 PM
sarahpalinfan99 on March 14, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Do you have any insider info that Sarah will run definitely for re-election?
Because if you don’t know for sure, I made an argument over at
http://www.conservatives4palin.com (open thread Saturday)
why she should NOT run for re-election if she intends to run for POTUS in 2012.
technopeasant on March 14, 2009 at 6:21 PM
The issue I have with the interview is that she knew she was off already and the jerks of the campaign MADE her go back for more.
I want Sarah UNLEASHED and off the hook to be the SARAHCUDA that she is.
ProudPalinFan on March 14, 2009 at 6:21 PM
ProudPalinFan on March 14, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Earlier in this thread I made the argument that those who do not place Couric’s interview with Sarah in the proper context are either the product of a poor education or teaching system or exhibiting Fascist tendencies.
technopeasant on March 14, 2009 at 6:24 PM
technopeasant,
If she is not ready for ’12 would she ever be, according to the drive-by’s? I mean I don’t mind, she is doing a magnificent job, of course any final decision about her life depends on her decision and not us or the media’s.
If she runs for Senate, then that would put her perhaps in hotter water, and be expected to run in ’12, and then she will be bombarded even MORE than now because sharks will be sharpening their teeth. Watching every move. Waiting for a gaffe, a mistake, a PMS day.
Seriously, to the media she will NEVER be ready. I will jump there and post my feedback!
ProudPalinFan on March 14, 2009 at 6:26 PM
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