{"id":6436,"date":"2008-09-28T11:06:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T18:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6436"},"modified":"2008-09-30T01:50:16","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T08:50:16","slug":"disastrous-sarah-palin-interviews-on-cbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6436","title":{"rendered":"Disastrous Sarah Palin Interviews on CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. These CBS\/Katie Couric interviews on the economy with Sarah Palin are breathtaking. Cafferty&#8217;s response afterwards is, on the other hand, a breath of fresh air in the corporate media.<\/p>\n<p>If any serious John McCain supporter can claim, with a straight face, to actually have no problem voting for this woman for <i>President<\/i>, as that&#8217;s what she&#8217;s ostensibly running for, I&#8217;d sure like to hear it.<\/p>\n<p>As it seems very few saw these when they originally aired (during the bailout panic last week), perhaps they need a bit more play. My god. Seriously, take a look at these&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/thunder\/swf\/rcpHolderCbs-prod.swf\" width=\"220\" height=\"215\"allowFullScreen=\"true\" FlashVars=\"link=http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/watch\/?id=4476649n&#038;releaseURL=http:\/\/release.theplatform.com\/content.select?pid=Lso5b4FmK0Or8FVAH6_Fq6toRn44ofya&#038;partner=newsembed&#038;autoPlayVid=false&#038;prevImg=http:\/\/thumbnails.cbsig.net\/CBS_Production_News\/827\/610\/eve_palin_92408_480x360.jpg\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><\/td>\n<td><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/thunder\/swf\/rcpHolderCbs-prod.swf\" width=\"220\" height=\"215\"allowFullScreen=\"true\" FlashVars=\"link=http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/watch\/?id=4476721n&#038;releaseURL=http:\/\/release.theplatform.com\/content.select?pid=u3__TceSBPIxSf1v_AAhLARXyGzH1GYf&#038;partner=newsembed&#038;autoPlayVid=false&#038;prevImg=http:\/\/thumbnails.cbsig.net\/CBS_Production_News\/827\/717\/exclusive_palin_92408_480x360.jpg\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><\/embed><\/object><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Little wonder, then, that even rightwingers, after looking at this stuff, are starting to <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6433\">face reality<\/a>, and call for Palin to be dropped from the ticket.<\/p>\n<p>On CNN, Jack Cafferty was at least as alarmed by the interview as I was, noting on air that &#8220;If John McCain wins this woman will be one 72-year-old&#8217;s heartbeat away from being President of the United States. And if that doesn&#8217;t scare the hell out of you, it should.&#8221; Take a look at his reaction&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"340\" height=\"280\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/L8__aXxXPVc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/L8__aXxXPVc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"340\" height=\"280\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Not had enough yet? Here&#8217;s the full 10 minute Palin\/Couric interview on foreign policy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/thunder\/swf\/rcpHolderCbs-prod.swf\" width=\"340\" height=\"332\"allowFullScreen=\"true\" FlashVars=\"link=http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/watch\/?id=4479049n&#038;releaseURL=http:\/\/release.theplatform.com\/content.select?pid=TaI1gdyHuii_YH_LiRsF6qR0wv7wQXIa&#038;partner=newsembed&#038;autoPlayVid=false&#038;prevImg=http:\/\/thumbnails.cbsig.net\/CBS_Production_News\/828\/696\/couric_palinII0925_480x360.jpg\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>John McCain: Maverick? Or complete and utter fool who&#8217;d put the country at risk with an irresponsible and cynical selection, rather than lose an election.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Related Update:<\/b><\/i> <a href=https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6438\">Exclusive: Fox &#8216;News&#8217; Spikes Story on Conservatives &#8216;Questioning Palin Heft&#8217;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. These CBS\/Katie Couric interviews on the economy with Sarah Palin are breathtaking. Cafferty&#8217;s response afterwards is, on the other hand, a breath of fresh air in the corporate media. If any serious John McCain supporter can claim, with a straight face, to actually have no problem voting for this woman for President, as that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[379,122,20,252,388],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cbs","category-election-2008","category-jack-cafferty","category-john-mccain","category-sarah-palin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6436"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}