Thursday, September 11, 2008
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Get It Right, ABC
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Posted by:
Carol Platt Liebau at
10:30 PM
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Amanda links below to excerpts of the Palin ABC interview.
I've suspected for some time that the next page in the playbook is to make Sarah Palin sound like some kind of religious wacko (payback, perhaps, for the genuinely offensive Jeremiah Wright?). Here's a prime example, in fact. And a significant omission on Charlie Gibson's part tonight only reinforces my suspicion. Here's the exchange:
GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, "Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God." Are we fighting a holy war?
PALIN: You know, I don't know if that was my exact quote.
GIBSON: Exact words.
Only problem is that the quote is not a complete one -- and the omission changes its substance markedly.
The full Palin quote is as follows: Sarah Palin was asking listeners to pray that "our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God." That's quite a difference -- but one any real journalist is capable of understanding (Juliet Eilperin put the quote in its proper context in this WaPo piece; MSNBC got it right here.) Rather than declaring, in essence, that God is on our side, she was asking for prayers that we are on His.
Understandably, Gibson and ABC wanted to make news, but this kind of sloppy chop and bait and switch is bush league.
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but have long felt that, of the broadcast networks, that ABC was a bit less biased than NBC and CBS, whose stories have been repudiated again and again. But I guess ABC is now striving mightily to catch up with its blatantly left-wing competitors. So my new moniker for Charles Gibson is "Chuckie Hubris". And from now on, aside from sheer entertainment value, I will avoid ABC News as I have the others for many years now. This lame-a***ed attempt to undercut Sarah Palin will surely live in infamy. |
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Pathological liar Andrew Sullivan said this today:
"But this exchange is a classic example of how she tends to lie reflexively when caught in an uncomfortable part of her record:
GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, "Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God." Are we fighting a holy war?
PALIN: You know, I don't know if that was my exact quote.
GIBSON: Exact words."
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/0 9/one-preliminary.html
Here is the correct quote from Governor Palin:
“Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God,” she exhorted the congregants. “That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.”
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/04/yawn-the-ap-smears-pa lin-over-prayer-for-troops-in-iraq/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H-btXPfhGs
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/11/open-thread-palin-on- abc/
And that quote is a paraphrase of a prayer Abraham Lincoln gave in the Civil War.
Charlie Gibson (I assume unintentionally) made a mistake by relying on the AP's version which misquoted and truncated what Gov. Palin actual said. Given Andrew Sullivan's pathological slanders and libels over the last two weeks triggered by his fears of Obama losing, I assume Sully is just lying. |
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she's suppose to parrot the top of the ticket on issues. Her Russia/Georgia response will get more steamlined, my only issue was she left some low hanging fruit on the tree not saying more about what the commander of the national guard does and I've heard Governors go on for 20 minutes about their accomplishments on easier tasks. while gov Palin has an even harder job of making sure the guard has all the support from Alaska it needs for their patrol missions, especially near the Bering sea.
Here's the Abrham Lincoln prayer Gov Palin might have referred to. It's from the book Lincoln an illustrated biography, the companion volume to the ABC television documentary (so there's no excuse for Gibson to not find it in the ABC archives)- written by Philip Kunhardt Jr.
Oct 26th 1862 -(prayer)
Lincoln tells Eliza P Gurney (noted english quaker), "that we must believe god permits the war for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us"
Just 10 months earlier Lincoln's 11 year old son Willie died from typhoid or malaria, and religion meant a bit more to Lincoln after that they say in the book. |
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doesn't know anything about the constitution or when the pledge was enacted. You are not an expert on her, and must be an Obama supporter who got his shorts in a bind because she did a good job getting around the Liberal, biased, jerk Gibson who tried to trap her at every opportunity. The mere word 'Liberal' leaves a bad taste in my mouth. |
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I had previously had some respect for Gibson but after his very obvious bias I am no longer any fan and am disappointed that ABC has elected to follow the Obama media limmings led by NBC. His body language was a major tipoff and his statement/questions were obviously handed to him by the Obama steering committee.
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She just repeated talking points she memorized, given to her by McCain operatives....that is not obvious?
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Knows nothing about the Constitution, or when the Pledge was inacted. |
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Gov. Sarah Palin DOES hold rather extreme views. |
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Gibson took something out of context? There's a real surprise.
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