Worst Sarah Palin Interview Ever.

I've never posted -and hardly ever even watched- Katie Couric interviews up until now. Now, I'm posting two in one day, one with John McCain, and one with Palin. They must have figured Couric would go easy on them. I'm as surprised as they must have been, but boy, were they wrong. Especially in this interview with Palin.

Palin's speech at the RNC was a Republican homerun, but this interview is everything people thought her interviews would be when the news first hit she was joining the campaign; flustered, insecure, beaten down, uninformed and unsure what to say. Katie Couric looks like she's staring her down and trying to psych Palin out as she talks- successfully, it seems. I actually feel sorry for her at this point. It's awkward to watch.



Bonus- Part 2


The weird thing about this is that Katie Couric has had a reputation of being not just a lightweight, but as a Bush cheerleader. Of all the major media outlets aside from Fox, CBS has arguably been the most conservative-favorable in its coverage. Up until now they've treated McCain evenly even as CNN, ABC and NBC have gotten progressively more pissed off at his campaign.

I was student council president in high school, though a lot of people hadn't really seen it coming. There was a guy in my sociology class that thought only really popular people had a shot at it, and that it was ridiculous even trying to run. But a lot of people supported me, including this sort of ditzy in-crowd girl we'll call Suzy Q and her friends. After the election I saw him in class and he just shook his head and said, "You know, when I heard that even Suzy Q was voting for you, that's when I realized that you were actually going to win."

That's kind of who Katie Couric reminds me of. There's a base of 35-40% that will always vote for a Republican no matter what, but in the center there's been a slow, gradual process where middle-of-the-road people that were generally happy with Bush are beginning to shift over to Obama and away from McCain. Not in a fanatical, caught up in the hype way...just a general, gradual movement in cautious popular opinion.