Palin Trashes Media, Moments After Proclaiming Her ‘Respect’ For ‘The Profession’
Palin Trashes Media, Moments After Proclaiming Her ‘Respect’ For ‘The Profession’
Katie Couric told Page Six recently that Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) “should keep her head down, work really hard and learn about governing.” On Larry King Live last night, Palin responded to Couric’s remark by thanking her for the advice, claiming she wouldn’t offer Couric any advice in return because of her “respect” for the media. However, she then proceeded to trash the media as biased and unfair:
PALIN: Well, thank you, Katie Couric, for your advice. And I won’t reciprocate in giving her any advice, that’s for sure, because I have respect for her and the profession that she is in. I would have greater respect though for the entire profession called mainstream media if we could have great assurance that there is fairness, that there is objectivity throughout the reporting world.
Watch it:
If Palin has respect for the media, she has a funny way of showing it. As she introduced herself to the nation at the Republican National Convention, Palin made the media the target of several of her most popular applause lines. As the campaign progressed, Palin said the media, in asking substantive questions about policy, were engaging in “gotcha journalism.” She also accused reporters of failing to adhere to “journalistic ethics.”
Late last month, Palin went so far as to claim the media was trampling her right to free speech. As ABC News reported:
“If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations,” Palin told host Chris Plante, “then I don’t know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media.”
Transcript:
KING: Katie Couric, by the way, said last night that she thinks you should keep your head down, work really hard and learn about governing before contemplating a presidential run.
PALIN: Well, thanks…
KING: What are your thoughts about her saying you should learn about governing?
PALIN: I’d say thank you, Katie Couric, for your advice. And I won’t reciprocate in giving her any advice, that’s for sure, because I have respect for her and the profession that she is in. I would have greater respect, though, for the entire profession called mainstream media if we could have great assurance that there’s fairness, that there’s objectivity throughout the reporting world.
And, you know, Larry, there, too, if there is anything that I can do in terms of assisting there and allowing the credence — the credibility that that great vocation — that cornerstone of our democracy called the press — if I can help build up that credibility in the press and allow the electorate to know that they can believe everything that is reported through the airwaves and through print, I want to be able to help.
I started out as a journalist. It’s that important to me that that cornerstone of our democracy is given the credence and credibility that it deserves.
But we have to have a two-way street here going, where reporters are fair, objective, non-biased; we get back to the who, what, where, when and why, and allow the viewers and the listeners and the readers to make up their own minds and not so much commentary, I think, being involved in mainstream media’s questioning and reporting on candidates.
I’d like to kind of help build back that credibility in that cornerstone of our democracy called our media…
KING: Don’t you also…
PALIN: …allowing for the checks and balances that government needs. KING: Don’t you think, Governor, that there’s also a right-wing media?
PALIN: There’s a right-wing, there’s a left-wing. I tend to believe that what we need is, again, back to the who, what, where, when and why, and allow the electorate — allow listeners, viewers to make up their own minds based on fair, objective, non-biased reporting. That’s what I’d like to see.
At the same time, though, it’s healthy, it’s interesting, it’s entertaining — entertaining to be able to hear the commentary on both sides. But when mainstream media, especially, is expected to be non- biased, without the commentary being involved, I think we really need to get back to giving the — some credence to the wisdom of the people, allowing them the ability to make up their own minds without hearing too much commentary infiltrated in the questions and the reporting.
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Is it just me, or does anyone else change the channel whenever a Sarah Palin story comes on.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:14 pmEnough already!!!
Those ideas really bounce around a lot in that big empty head.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:14 pmI hope that before too long, we will realize that we have had a day without Sarah Palin — I am so fed up with her — I change the channel when she appears — go away! Sarah. Enough already.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:16 pmArt, I have a feeling you will get quite a few recommendations on that one.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:17 pmceltic cynic Says
November 13th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Those ideas really bounce around a lot in that big empty head.
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Like a single BB in an empty tuna can.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:17 pmPlease, no more attention paid to this loser. I don’t give half a crap what she thinks, says, does…
November 13th, 2008 at 5:18 pmThanks.
PLEASE – governor Gidget – JUST GO AWAY !!! Despite what you think, you are NOT the center of the universe
November 13th, 2008 at 5:18 pmPALIN: I’d say thank you, Katie Couric, for your advice. And I won’t reciprocate in giving her any advice, that’s for sure, because I have respect for her and the profession that she is in. I would have greater respect, though, for the entire profession called mainstream media if we could have great assurance that there’s fairness, that there’s objectivity throughout the reporting world.
Translation:
I’d like ‘em better if they’d only say nice stuff about me, yanno?
November 13th, 2008 at 5:20 pmQVC, I’m telling you: she would be PERFECT.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:21 pmWe all know that Palin can flip-flop with a very tight turning circle (Bush bad! Bush good! Bush bad! Media good! Media bad!), a skill she no doubt picked up from McCain himself.
But it’s become increasingly apparent that Palin has no convictions of her own. She just programs her internal word randomizer to spit out whatever she thinks her audience wants to hear and then blathers. How else do you explain ramblings like this? —
“And, you know, Larry, there, too, if there is anything that I can do in terms of assisting there and allowing the credence — the credibility that that great vocation — that cornerstone of our democracy called the press — if I can help build up that credibility in the press and allow the electorate to know that they can believe everything that is reported through the airwaves and through print, I want to be able to help.”
November 13th, 2008 at 5:22 pmWhat a total waste of protoplasm. Would someone please stop reporting on the ravings of this lunatic. Aren’t there some caribou around Juneau she can herd or something?
November 13th, 2008 at 5:22 pmMrs. Palin is the last one to talk about ethics. IIRC, she was clearly found to have violated her state’s ethic laws by a bi-partisan approved investigation into her relentless pursuit to have an ex-brother-in-law fired from his job.
If I were Trooper Wooten, btw, I would be hiring the best attorneys I could to prosecute Mrs. Palin and her husband, especially, for attempting to ruin his life and livelihood. Due to death threats, thanks to Mrs. Palin’s incessant bad-mouthing, the trooper is now on desk duty.
Lord help anyone who Mrs. Palin gets a mind to destroy.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:22 pmWhat that sounded like to me was one really pissed off former beauty queen. I think that she really needs to pack it in for a while. Maybe all this lashing out feels good to her, but what’s left of her image isn’t going to last long if she keeps it up.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:23 pmDoesn’t she know her side is opposed to re-introducing the Fairness Doctrine?
November 13th, 2008 at 5:24 pmI pray for the Palin media door to close and lock.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:24 pmThere seem to be two very clear attitudes among us lefty bloggers in regard to Palin. On one hand are those who are dead sick of the sight of her and really really wish she’d just disappear off the front page/television/blog. On the other hand there are those who think Palin’s exposure is helping to drill more holes in the ship of GOP, well below the waterline. The more she talks, the more she continues to demonstrate her astonishing lack of substance, the more thoroughly she sinks herself (along with the Party).
Personally, I think she’s demonstrating that she’s just a blown-up version of Joe the NotPlumber. She got more air time and more hysterical rallies than Joe, so she has a little more hang time before she sinks over the Bering Strait and disappears off the media radar.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:32 pmwhat I’d really like to hear a reporter have the gonads to ask her is:
- who were those “buddies” of her husband that helped to build the house
November 13th, 2008 at 5:33 pm- why did she do away with building permits in Wasilla just when it came time to building her house
- did she learn anything from Sen Stevens about the risks of home improvement projects?
Leftside Annie Says:
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QVC, I’m telling you: she would be PERFECT.
That is a scary vision to place in my head but true, so very true.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:33 pmi’d honestly like to
know what rapture ready
thinks of all of this.
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rap?
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November 13th, 2008 at 5:33 pmThis “breast of fresh air” has grown mighty stale
November 13th, 2008 at 5:34 pmPalin is a F**KTARD!
November 13th, 2008 at 5:36 pmPALINONICS:
“Sitting here in these chairs that I’m going to be proposing but in working with these governors who again on the front lines are forced to and it’s our privileged obligation to find solutions to the challenges facing our own states every day being held accountable, not being just one of many just casting votes or voting present every once in a while, we don’t get away with that. We have to balance budgets and we’re dealing with multibillion dollar budgets and tens of thousands of employees in our organizations.”
- – 11/14/08, Sarah Palin, journalism graduate, Univ. of Idaho, 1987.*
* – as far as we know.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:38 pmPost-election profiteering is underway for Sarah. She isn’t going anywhere. I want her to run in 2012, with the comfort that Barack wouldn’t have to go through another grueling campaign and sail to reelection.
I would complain that she isn’t tending to the needs of both her son (?) trig and her state, but I wouldn’t want to trample on her first amendment-protected bid to become a white Oprah (no disrespect meant to Oprah).
November 13th, 2008 at 5:39 pmAw, c’mon kids. Sarah Palin is the gift that keeps on givin’. It’s to the point where a lot of Republicans want to crawl into a hole whenever she starts jawin’. We need to keep her around to remind everyone that the GOP has become the party of shallow dumbasses after Bush escapes to Paraguay.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:42 pmPalin said, “I started out as a journalist. It’s that important to me that that cornerstone of our democracy is given the credence and credibility that it deserves”.
Parse that sentence. Does that refer to having “started out as a journalist”?
That important, huh? Methinks she talks to hear her brain rattle or to make McCain look good by comparison. Why she is getting so much corporate media attention is beyond me.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:45 pmWhy are we still listening to her?
November 13th, 2008 at 5:47 pmPlease make Bimbostien go away. She is a pox on intellectual discourse and politics in general
November 13th, 2008 at 5:47 pmEnough of this non-sense. The PTA mom has had more than her hour in the limelight. Move on. The GOP is dead. If she is the life of that party, they should start anew. What a bunch of haters, bigots, liars, and idiots.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:49 pmGuido the Loving OBGYN Says:
Couric’s condascending tone is hilarious. Palin should not have responded to it ( a dignified normal person would not have).
Basically what Couric did was the equivilant of saying:
Seemed like good advice to me. If Palin wants to be taken seriously by any but the extreme Right, she’d be well off spending a few years focusing on her job and on learning something about the US Constitution.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:49 pmHow can she ever trash the media again after they have given her new life and an unwarranted chance to rehab her tattered image post-election? She is a VP loser on a ticket that got swamped. She doesn’t deserve this blitz…
http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog/
November 13th, 2008 at 5:49 pmWhy keep talking about this irrelevant person. We won, let’s move on.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:49 pmPoliticians who know nothing (I am being kind) do not deserve coverage or attention. They need to be called out on their ignorance and then ignored. Look what we got for the last eight years by the media fawning over and not calling out a “high functioning moron.” (- P. Begala)
November 13th, 2008 at 5:51 pmNothing says “ethics” quite like abuse of power and charging constituents for time you spend at home ………….
November 13th, 2008 at 6:00 pmIt was completely unfair of the media to ask her questions and then keep the camera on her while she incoherently babbled through a word-salad answer. Made her look bad. They shouldn’t have done that, the big meanies.
November 13th, 2008 at 6:00 pmLet’s forget this loser. We have bigger things to focus on.
November 13th, 2008 at 6:01 pmSomeone, somewhere is going to make a fortune selling a PalinTranslator, that turns her verbal gobbldeygook into English.
November 13th, 2008 at 6:05 pmshe’s not going away… matter of fact, i’d even bet that she will be joining the faux family of fabricators faily soon!
and THEN she can show us all how it’s DONE!
November 13th, 2008 at 6:06 pmbtruthful Says:
Why keep talking about this irrelevant person. We won, let’s move on.
Andrew Sullivan explains “Why Palin Still Matters” and I think he’s exactly right.
At root:
November 13th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
misshusseinmolly Says:
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celtic cynic Says
November 13th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Those ideas really bounce around a lot in that big empty head.
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Like a single BB in an empty tuna can.
And we all know that an empty can rattles the most. This chick rattles on like a old typewriter. Palin is an idiot – of the highest order. The GOP is toast if this is the best they can come up with. Palin 2012!!!!!
November 13th, 2008 at 6:10 pmPalin came out (at the Convention) guns blazing aimed at the media. It was yet another piece of soul that McCain had to sell for the campaign. He was once their darling, but this was all crafted for Palin because they had figured out for themselves by that point (in between the selection and the Convention) that she wouldn’t hold up if confronted by even the most mundane questioning by the media.
What’s sad (really funny) is that she doesn’t realize that she’s just being pursued by the media now because of the side-show freak aspect of her “persona” while she’s taking it all so seriously.
November 13th, 2008 at 6:23 pmWhat advice could this pinhead possibly offer?!?
November 13th, 2008 at 6:26 pmIsn’t there a mob use of pitchforks and torches class she can teach somewhere?
November 13th, 2008 at 6:27 pmHas she released her medical records yet? Or is she afraid they would be subject to biased reporting?
November 13th, 2008 at 6:28 pmRUCerious:
http://www.palinparrot.com/
November 13th, 2008 at 6:30 pm666 ~ heh, someone beat me to it!!
November 13th, 2008 at 6:34 pmObjectivity? Objectively, she can’t speak the English language. She uses the word “progress” as a verb, “there” as a mental crutch and “being” as a adjective.
Warning; If English is your second language. DO NOT try to learn it from listening to Palin.
November 13th, 2008 at 6:34 pmHAHAHAH GOD is she stupid. I change the channel instantly as well but god PLEASE let her be the face of the GOP. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. She’s killing them. It’s awesome to watch . . . well, read about cause watching her anymore is WAY to painful.
November 13th, 2008 at 6:42 pmThe only WAY Palin is going to reserect her damaged image, is with help with the complicit cable shows, that are putting her on, over reporting, and mentioning her every time they get a chance .
November 13th, 2008 at 6:46 pmIt just starts with Greta’s infomercials and then spreads like a virus to CNN, that basically talks about her all day , and had her on Blitzer with a so called interview and on Larry King on the same damn day . If CNN has any sense of shame , any sense of what journalists SHOULD be covering, they wouldn’t be providing the opportunity for her to attack her critics and play the victim card .
But since Cable ” NEWS ” is now a waste land of discussion, political theater, and contrived controversies , she fits their formula for cheap and easing ratings .
The way to deal with Gov. Palin is to focus a MICROSCOPE on Alaska.
This state probably has more elected officials on the way to Jail, or under Indictment than any other.
Alaska probably gets more Taxpayer money too.
And as the price of oil has Plummeted, so has Alaska’s revenue.
So… how is this World Famous Governor handling things?? If Gov. Palin’s political future is Front Page News, then Alaska’s political and economic situation should be Front Page News ALSO.
November 13th, 2008 at 6:52 pmWhere is the Chris Mathews interview of Palin? I’d pay good money to see that live! Of course she knows that would be gotcha all the way and would rather gargle with moose reproductive juice than face off with a real hard hitting interviewer.
November 13th, 2008 at 6:56 pm“I’d like to kind of help build back that credibility in that cornerstone of our democracy called our media…”
BIG HINT: I’m negotiating a contract with FOX News.
November 13th, 2008 at 7:36 pmWhat we must do at this time is keep a very sharp eye on Palin and her like. This is part of the learning opportunity our current times offer to us. She is of that certain type of person who does not learn and does not listen. And she is carrying a toxic ideology for the health of any democracy and does not know it. Inside she may be only a virus doing what it is programmed to do. But she has no clue of her nonsense. We need to beware the right wing attempt to make all the media look the same as that is one of their total propaganda devices. These people are bad for the health of America and yet we are wise to forgive them. Just do not let them have the keys to the Oval Office or the nuclear codes.
November 13th, 2008 at 8:08 pmFunny how she gets upset about the media and accuses of dishonest reporting. She just wants to be able to say what she wants and be unchecked.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:31 amCheck out this funny Palin McCain parody:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv9bvrN1QMU
Hahahaha, Sarah, you were totally punked by Katie. Now shut up. Take Katie’s sage advice, and shut the F up.
Really… Never enough kudos to Katie Couric, who I think does deserve our great respect. I thought she would be a puppy dog when she interviewed Palin, but she did her job admirably and like a true professional. By doing the one thing that mattered: Not accepting some circular BS answer and just moving on. She demanded a straight answer.
The electorate would be better served if all interviews of candidates were conducted that way. Many thanks to Ms. Couric for reminding her colleagues of that through her example.
November 14th, 2008 at 7:13 amAh yes, gotcha questions like “what newspapers do you read”?
I wish couric would have followed up the question with “what magazines do you read”…that would have made her absurd “all of them” answer sound even more ludicrous…
November 14th, 2008 at 8:11 am