Oh lord.
Palin rebounded yesterday on FOX News by saying that she didn’t answer Katie Couric’s questions on the Supreme Court or what newspapers she read because Couric “annoyed” her. Then she went on to give her “real” answers to the Fox news interviewer. Somewhere in the week or so she came up with real answers to those questions and put the entire blame on Couric again because Couric wasn’t giving her any questions in which she could attack Barack Obama with.
Hmm.
It was a soft-pitch “getting to know you” series of interviews with Couric, who is hardly the “media elite.” She was caught off guard and she screwed up a couple of times. But yes, instead of admitting it, it’s time to blame the media elite and Katie Couric.
Is it 1988 again?
Yesterday, Palin, so energized by her debate performance, told reporters that she had only just learned of McCain pulling out of Michigan (something that had been in the news for two days) and how she was outraged! Not that McCain had not bothered to TELL HER ANYTHING yet again, but that she didn’t think it was true and she and the first dude would be willing to fight for the state! They were going to do it by ::gasp:: walking through a few car plants.
I think that Palin is missing the point. She didn’t do “great” in the debate. If you actually watch the replays she did just enough not to get her locked up in an insane asylum. The weird winks, the “folksy” lines, the total lack of any coherent response to at least three of the questions (to quote the movie ‘Happy Gilmore’ “We are all stupider now after listening to your response.”), it was like she was channeling the spirit of Shirley Temple and was going to raise the troops to go onto the Good Ship Lollipop and fight the war on terror with pure spirit, “you betchas” and dinosaur commando teams!
Her performance was not the “game changer” that she thinks it was. It didn’t revitalize anything but the editor of the New Republic who wrote her a love letter and “sat upright” any time she winked. Yes, that’s right, one of America’s most respected publications has an editor who claims to have had some sort of spiritual sexual encounter with Palin after he saw her wink at him through the TV!
And I thought I was delusional because I had a dream about Natalie Portman juggling.
So this morning I find that after all of this, after all the Palin nonsense and that little thing called the bailout dominating the news, John McCain’s advisers have announced that the new strategy to “combat” Barack Obama is… NEGATIVE ADVERTISING!
I swear, it really is 1988 again.
The more things change…
Jim