Sarah Palin was interviewed for an upcoming documentary on media malpractice. Here is a video of her interview.
Sarah Palin on Media Malpractice - Video
Documentary filmmaker John Ziegler interviewed Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as part of his documentary on ‘Media Malpractice’. In this interview, she talks about the media coverage of her 2008 campaign for the vice presidency.
She touches on the political nature of the negative coverage of herself and her family. She talks about sexism and class-ism in the politics and media today. She talks about Caroline Kennedy, Tina Fey and Katie Couric. I particularly liked one of her responses to Katie Couric’s whining about her interview with Palin.
She also expressed frustration with Couric’s characterization of her since the interviews. After being shown a clip of Couric complaining to David Letterman that no post-election interviewer has asked Palin why she would not tell the CBS anchor what newspapers she reads, the Alaska governor responded: “Because, Katie, you’re not the center of everybody’s universe.”
Of course, the left is working hard at discrediting Ziegler as a ‘right wing nut’ and making fun of his assertions of how Obama got elected. Of course, a lot of this is defensiveness and changing the subject from the basic issue of the ways in which the press presents the news to the public. What news is chosen to report and what is not and how does it form the opinions of the people.
This is a serious issue and its seriously frightening that rather than address the issue, people would rather make fun of anyone who does look at it.
As for Sarah Palin … she needs to set the record straight and then leave it alone and move on to broader issues. If she dwells too much on her personal beefs with the media, then she’ll start sounding like a whiner. This documentary gives her the opportunity to make her case and defend herself from the lies that were put out about her as fact. Now leave it alone, rise above it and move on. If she can do that then we might very well be seeing her in national politics again quite soon.
January 9th, 2009 at 9:54 am
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January 9th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
She’ll ’start’ looking like a whiner? You think? Palin is the new red-eyed face of the GOP. Speaking as a liberal who does have some respect for w wide variety of views, I’d be worried if it was my party.
January 9th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
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