“Don’t Make Excuses”
This two-day old CNN clip has gotten around, but it has something new I missed on Friday. Jack Cafferty‘s rant about Sarah Palin is angry but unexceptional — he’s expressing a fairly common reaction to Palin’s performance during her recent Katie Couric interview. What stands out is Cafferty’s rebuke of CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer when the latter tries to explain away Palin’s shoddy performance due to having had to cram in a lot of information in a short time frame.
That footage with Couric is horrifying. HORRIFYING. It was even a softball question, and I don’t know how anyone – Republican or Democrat – can defend her response. I know close to nothing about economics, and I could have answered that question off the cuff far more effectively with my cursory knowledge and without all the cramming that Sarah Palin has undoubtedly been doing.
Best case scenario for the Palin fans: the governor was nervous and just had a bad moment. It happens. But because she has been given so few opportunities to speak freely, the question is: what are we supposed to think? One gaffe is no big deal. But when the gaffe comprises almost your entire sample of interviews, it becomes a very big deal.
Keep cramming, Governor. Maybe by Thursday night you’ll have gotten it all down and morphed into someone who is an authority on the issues that will matter for the office. If not…you might not have my vote, but I fear you will have many empathetic cringes from me on your behalf during the debate.
Palin does not have real, integrated intelligence. She has what we might call beauty-queen intelligence, which is just some kind of quick-study attempt to reflect what she thinks other people want to hear. In a high-grade milieu (not saying Couric’s show is one) where intellectual discrimination is keen, this shows up as the most blatantly phony gibberish.
Oh, and Wolf Blitzer is a complette disgrace in a long list of disgraceful “journalists.”
Palin’s circular and illogical response is scariliy similar to this classic clip from last year… by a beauty queen, of course: http://www.funnyhub.com/videos/pages/miss-south-carolina-is-confused.html
Great video
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