The Associated Press: ABC plans prime-time Palin special

The special will air this Friday at 10 p.m. EDT.

CNN is also planning a Palin special this weekend.

Thanks, OP. I'm looking forward to seeing this interview. I think it will be good for everyone to see her answer questions without a teleprompter, and without having Sen. McCain by her side.

Hopefully it will put to rest a lot of people wanting to know how she stands on issues and will show the real Sen. Palin. Also I'm glad it wasn't with Fox News since so many on the board would automatically call it 'not a 'fair and balanced' interview and automatically dismiss it as 'not real'!!

You can watch it online now, read the comments on it too. Charlie came off looking very slanted in his interview, that's ok, it'll just prop Sarah more!

In what way was Charlie "slanted"? He asked her some tough questions to be sure but none of them were "gotcha" questions. He was quite fair. These questions should be simple for anyone running for preisident or vice-president.

She had apparently never heard of the "Bush doctrine" before the interview. Her answer on that topic made no sense. It appears that she has not been interested enough in world affairs to be even minimally conversant.

Her answer on Georgia and the Ukraine, however, correlated with the statements McCain has made; except for, "For Russia to have exerted such pressure in terms of invading a smaller democratic country, unprovoked, is unacceptable..." Does anyone think that Russia had no provocation? Get ready for a new cold war or worse.

Can't wait for tonight.

Well the whole "are we in God's war?" business was definitely taken out of context by Charlie Gibson. That's just one example.

Obama has the same "type" of thoughts about Russia/Georgia. (Bill O'Reilly interview).


Obama and Biden wanted an additional $1 billion to go to aid for Georgia. And that is what Bush did send.

Tell us what you know! I'm interested in hearing.

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DH wanted to know why they weren't interviewing Biden like this??? Does anyone know??

I think Charlie Gibson came off a bit hostile towards Sarah Palin.

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I totally agree, I have lost all my respect for him as a fair and balanced journalist. I would love to see him interview Biden in the exact same mannerism. (making him not once but three times explain his answers!)

I thought Sarah did a good job of answering his questions and had a lot of patience with his attitude.

South Ossetia and Abkhazia are two regions in Georgia that have acted autonomously since the fall of the Soviet Union. They are comprised of ethnic minorities. There have been skirmishes between these regions off and on since that time. One particularly bloody episode took place in 1991 were Georgia took 2000 lives. Since 1992, there has been a cease fire.

In 2008, Ossetians voted themselves independent of Georgia. Georgia sent troops in to Ossetia taking some 2500 hundred lives, a number in some doubt. Russia sent a far superior force against the Georgian troops and ousted them. The Ossetians were very happy to see the Russians.

To his credit, Bush handled the situation correctly. He advised the president of Georgia, Medvedev, not to attack Ossetia. Medvedev ignored this advice. Russia advised Bush that they would oust Georgian troops. Bush said ok but limit yourself to Ossetia and Abkhazia. The Russians went far beyond those 2 regions. Bush then had to condemn Russia while the Georgian troops wondered where the Americans were.

I don't think that are too many people in this country who don't know Joe Biden. He was on Meet the Press last Sunday.

I have to disagree with you about Charlie Gibson was at all hostile. He did ask some tough questions. Is that what you mean? A potential vice-presidential candidate needs to be able to answer those types of questions.

She'll be on Hannity next Tuesday and Wednesday where you can watch her being lobbed softballs.

Softballs such as those thrown at Obama by one Mr. Charlie Gibson? Check out the link for a full transcript of his interview of Obama. He asks ONE "hardball" question. ONE for the man running for president - not vice president. I think that interview compared to the Palin inteview is definitely demonstrative of a political bias on Gibson's part. Judge for yourselves...


In 2007 Interview, ABC’s Gibson Greeted Obama With Softballs | NewsBusters.org

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I bet she's not lobbed softballs!!!! You must not watch Fox!

I'll take that bet. And, bingo on the not warching Fox!

I don't know much about Joe Biden, other than he's been in the Senate for 20+ years, and lost his wife and daughter in a car crash, early on. I would love to see him grilled by Charlie Gibson the way Sara Palin was. I don't think it was just asking her tough questions, he was hostile and GRILLED her. Like another poster said, he had her answer questions 3 times on some of them. He brought up the "kids" issue....doubt anyone brought that up with Biden.

I think she showed that yes, there are areas that she is not strong in,having not met any Foreign Heads of State, for one. I think she also showed that she's no moron and she's not one to play around. She actually gets things done. Regardless of what people think of her, she HAS gotten things done. You can't deny that.

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She came off to me as woefully unprepared. I just don't know how anyone cannot know of the "Bush Doctrine." I think that the reason he had to repeat questions was that she didn't actually answer. She needs to be asked tough questions. And, when answers aren't given or clearly stated, follow up questions need to be asked.

I guess that Joe Biden could do an interview with Charlie Gibson for those who know little about him. Ny the same token, it would be great if Sarah Palin would be on Meet the Press, Face the Nation and This Week.

Then how can you condemn Fox News if you don't watch it? I watch the other news broadcasts and can honestly form an opinion on them based on what I watch. Do you base your opinion on Fox of what others say about it? Talk about being fair and balanced -- NOT!

As far as Joe Biden, I don't know anything about him. I'd love for him to do interviews also. I though Gov. Palin did a good job with her interview with Charlie Gibson. I also thought Charlie Gibson was a little smug in his questions to her. I also thought the interview was chopped up and seemed to not flow smoothly, which I blame on Mr. Gibson and the TV editing.

It could have been presented better.

I look forward to watching the interview on Fox with Gov. Palin and again, I would like to see interviews of Mr. Biden being asked the same questions.

I think she was nervous, and rightfully so. There were questions that she DID answer the first time. The one that comes to mind was the abortion issue. She told Charlie that "it is my personal opinion....." he kept on , and on, and on.

Ok, I'll admit it....I don't know what the Bush Doctrine is. I guess I'm off to Google it and find out, tho, huh??

I'm looking forward to any and all interviews of all candidates. The more information, the better, IMO.

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This is from the article I posted the link to in the "Bush Doctrine" thread.

"Yes," Krauthammer concludes, "Palin didn't know what it is. But neither does Gibson. And at least she didn't pretend to know -- while he looked down his nose and over his glasses with weary disdain."

I think that accurately describes my feeling about Charlie Gibson while interviewing Sara Palin

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Should he not have asked tough questions? You do know that Krathjammer is pretty far to the right, don't you? Frankly, when Gibson told her what exactly he was talking about she seemed clueless.

Just don't watch any more of the Gibson interview and wait for the Hannity softballs.

No, I did not know that about Krathammer. I guess you could say I'm just learning all the players and their positions.

Definitely the difficult questions should be asked, just not with such an attitude, I guess??? Or in such a hostile way. I think in light of this, Charlie Gibson looks like more of the ass than he was before.

Testing Palin's foreign affairs knowledge, Gibson asked her if she agreed with "the Bush doctrine."

"In what respect?" Palin responded.

When Palin did not answer a follow-up, Gibson informed her that the Bush doctrine is "we have the right of anticipatory self-defense."

"Wrong," writes Krauthammer. "I know something about the subject because, as the Wikipedia entry on the Bush doctrine notes, I was the first to use the term" way back in 2001.

Krauthammer notes both in his Saturday column and on Fox News' "Special Report" Friday that over the years the Bush doctrine has actually had several different meanings and that Gibson's definition isn't even the latest.

The first was the Bush administration's unilateral withdrawal from the ABM treaty and Kyoto Protocol, which was followed by the post-9/11 "you're with us or you're with the terrorists," which was followed by the preemptive war in Iraq, which Gibson was thinking of.

The fourth incarnation of the Bush doctrine, Krauthammer explains, was the "freedom agenda" articulated in Bush's second inaugural address that "the survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands."

"Yes," Krauthammer concludes, "Palin didn't know what it is. But neither does Gibson. And at least she didn't pretend to know -- while he looked down his nose and over his glasses with weary disdain."

Wonder if there'll be time to cover this story on "World News" come Monday night.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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I wouldn't say Gibson was hostile. I'd say he was condescending and patronizing.

There are four different definitions of the "Bush Doctrine" that have been used in the last almost eight years. Bush himself never embraced the term - it's entirely a media-made phrase, and depending on who in the media you're talking to, you might get a different response if you asked what it meant.

She asked exactly the right question in response to him, and his reply to her question was nothing short of snooty, much like a teacher might explain the concept of ontogeny recapitulating phylogony to a student who was busy passing notes in class and didn't hear a word he said.

I don't think Gibson was condescending nor patronizing. By specifying the date, Palin should have been able to respond.

I am sorry that she did so poorly on this question.

Pardon me while I wipe the coffee off of my keyboard.

Somehow, while I disagree that she did poorly on that question, I find it hard to believe you'd be sad if she had.

This is interesting:
ABC News Edited Out Key Parts of Sarah Palin Interview | NewsBusters.org

When I was watching the interview, it seemed to me they had chopped off sections. This doesn't really reflect too well on ABC, IMO.

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She could be a heartbeat away from the presidency. She is so obviously not ready to lead this country. It would be as bad for our country as George W. Bush.

That is what this link is all about, they did chop out sections. This is so wrong!


ABC News Edited Out Key Parts of Sarah Palin Interview | NewsBusters.org

Here's the link to the entire unedited transcript:

The Mark Levin Show Gibson Interview


It makes ABC look very bad IMHO.

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Thanks for the link. That's what I had said in an earlier post -- that the interview looked choppy and didn't flow smoothly. I guess now we know why!!

ABC did pick and choose what they wanted the American public to hear and see. Do they actually think people are that stupid???

Talk about 'fair and balanced'!! HUH?? People talk about Fox News as being biased, etc., etc. I think this clearly shows the liberal slant to ABC.

I don't think that the parts ommitted add or detract anything from the interview. Fox news is biased. I haven't watched CNN, ABC, NBC or CBS since they all became White House press release readers in the period before the invasion of Iraq.

Liberal media bias is a truly stupid myth.

And, in answer to your questionL "Do they actually think people are that stupid??? "

George W Bush 2000
George W. Bush 2004

I think the answer would be , yes.

"Do they actually think people are that stupid?" could also be applied to "liberal media bias is a truly stupid myth".