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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Charles Gibson's Palin Double Standard by Brent Bozell III

Charles Gibson's Palin Double Standard by Brent Bozell III

Thursday, September 18, 2008

The McCain campaign went looking for a major anchor to be awarded the blessing and the curse of the first Sarah Palin interview -- a blessing for ratings and a curse from all the competitors who would accuse the winners of being soft on Republicans. At CBS, Katie Couric had wallowed in fan-club-president questions to Hillary Clinton about her "pure stamina," so she couldn't be first. NBC's Brian Williams kept asking Barack Obama those hardballs about how his late mother would swoon over the latest glowingly positive "news" magazine cover. How hard was it to pick Charlie Gibson on ABC?

Of the three anchors, Gibson is the one with the longest career in the hard-news trenches. The McCain people knew Gibson was not a "friendly." They knew Palin's first interview was going to be a grilling -- not just because the media saw her as untested, but because of the enormous liberal-media peer pressure to puncture her popularity.


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Read the entire column here: Charles Gibson's Palin Double Standard by Brent Bozell III

20080918 Charles Gibson’s Palin Double Standard

Related: 20080912 ABC’s Bungles by Kirsten Powers

Saturday, September 13, 2008

ABC'S BUNGLES By KIRSTEN POWERS New York Post

ABC'S BUNGLES By KIRSTEN POWERS New York Post

September 12, 2008 –

Sarah: Made fewer mistakes than interviewer Charlie Gibson.

LAST night, Sarah Palin had her first big-time media interview with Charlie Gibson on ABC World News Tonight.

At times, Palin seemed to know less than she should. On the other hand, Gibson sometimes seemed to "know" things that just aren't so.

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Of course, she needs to be questioned on many issues - but this interview left us with little new information about her.

Americans already know she lacks foreign-policy experience (as, by the way, did Democrats' 2004 VP candidate, John Edwards). All we could learn from Gibson's grilling on that topic was how well she's memorized McCain's positions. Why ask her whether Georgia and Ukraine should be admitted to NATO? Her position will match McCain's, just as Joe Biden's stands will mirror
Barack Obama's.

Plus, her answers last night are already being misrepresented…

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Despite Gibson's insistance that she'd said things that she clearly hadn't, Palin was polite and seemed unrattled.

We need to get beyond the stereotypes. Palin has been cast as a right-wing nut job in the media, yet her actual record suggests something more complex. She is a Republican who made herself the enemy of oil companies in Alaska. She raised funding for pregnant teens and learning-disabled children. She has expressed concern that we don't have a clear strategy in Iraq.

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Read Ms. Power’s entire column here: ABC'S BUNGLES By KIRSTEN POWERS New York Post


http://www.nypost.com/seven/09122008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/abcs_bungles_128726.htm

20080912 ABCs Bungles by Kirsten Powers