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Palin: Couric Interview Was 'Supposed To Be More Light-Hearted'
Eric Kleefeld | November 16, 2009, 5:41PM
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In her interview with Oprah Winfrey, Sarah Palin said that she wasn't expecting her now-infamous sit-down with CBS News anchor Katie Couric to be difficult -- and that she didn't do preparation for what she thought would be a "light-hearted" sit-down between two working moms.
"You do say that it wasn't your best interview," said Winfrey. "Were you prepped for that interview?"
"Not so much," Palin said, "because it was supposed to be kind of a light-hearted, fun, working mom speaking with working mom, and the challenges that we have with teenage daughters. So it was supposed to be more light-hearted."
In the actual interview, Couric asked Palin about her policies and John McCain's policies -- with the infamous moment, among others, when Palin said she would try to find examples of McCain favoring more regulation of Wall Street, and would bring those examples to Couric.
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tiowally
November 16, 2009 5:59 PM
"[I]t was supposed to be kind of a light-hearted, fun, working mom speaking with working mom, and the challenges that we have with teenage daughters." You know, stuff that really makes a difference in, say, international affairs.
Complete fucking imbecile.
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commie atheist
November 16, 2009 8:11 PM
Yes, she expected it to be just like Walter Cronkhite interviewing Hubert Humphrey or Spiro Agnew. Just two dads, talking about their kids. It's not like she was running for anything important.
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again
November 16, 2009 10:54 PM
such a train wreck. it is so painful, so past gloating.
cannot bring myself to watch video.
just make her go.
away.
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forked tongue
November 16, 2009 11:46 PM
It was supposed to be girly stuff. You know, just like any largely unknown Vice Presidential candidate would expect on her first interview with the national media. Then that Couric bitch sandbagged her with icky Guy questions like "What magazines do you read?"
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Kuyleh
November 17, 2009 12:33 AM
"What do you read?" is hardcore stuff, yeah? You have to have a triple digit IQ to be able to string letters together!
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GregorZap
November 17, 2009 1:52 AM
When you have God on your side, who needs to read anything? Just listen to the voices and go with it! Yeah, I know St. Paul said to test the spirits, but Palin never was good at taking those kinds of tests. She went to four different colleges so she knows!
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