Great moment in TV journalism last night on Fox

[underpants]

How many leading questions can Greta ask that stop dead in their tracks?



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,467527,00.html

VAN SUSTEREN: Now you go from Juneau, Alaska, to Wasilla, Alaska. Joining us live in front of the Wasilla Bible Church, Chief James Steele from the Central Mat-Su Fire Department, and Pastor Larry Kroon from the Wasilla Bible Church. Good evening to both of you.

VAN SUSTEREN: Pastor, have you had problems? Have people made threats on your church?

KROON: No, I can't say that. They haven't.
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VAN SUSTEREN: Pastor, I don't know if you heard our interview with the governor, but she said that -- you know, that she hoped that she was not the one responsible. Have you had a chance to speak to her at all directly?

KROON: No, I haven't been able to speak to her directly and -- you know, there's no need to apologize there at all.

VAN SUSTEREN: And I guess -- I didn't mean that she was responsible for the fire, but rather that someone was taking it out on her, is what I meant by saying that.

KROON: Right.
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VAN SUSTEREN: Pastor, I've been inside that church with you, in fact, talking with you, sort of that big auditorium, big church area, the big room. Was that room injured at all or was that hurt at all, that room burned?

KROON: No. No. That room's intact and the banners you saw any everything are still there.

VAN SUSTEREN: And the banners, of course -- those banners -- you're proud of those banners. That's particularly important to your church, isn't it.

(LAUGHTER)

VAN SUSTEREN: I have a good memory.

KROON: They sure are.

VAN SUSTEREN: So...

:eyes:

I love the part about the accelerants with the fire chief too

(Fire Chief)STEELE: The fire was actually under control in about 90 minutes, but given the location of the fire within the walls themselves, it traveled vertically and horizontally in the building. So it took us several hours to track down all the little smoldering remains in the fire. So we were actually -- we had units still on location until, oh, about 5:00 o'clock just with some of the overhaul and clean-up.

[KharmaTrain]

1. I'm Certain The Meth Lab In The Basement Exploded...

Isn't that what Wasilla's famous for?

So lemme see if I got this great conspiracy right. Some dude is gonna travel to this god forsaken tundra in December to torch a church populated by whackos? I get a feeling we'll find out this was the results of a dropped cig or combustable moose poop or some other screw up...an inside job, but since this church probably has a direct hot line to Faux noise, it's sure to be blamed on the "libruls", "teh gays" or "the unborn".

[underpants]

5. As I posted when this story (Palin's PUBLIC apology) broke

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3645082&mesg_id=3645351

Perhaps, just perhaps, the agent used to ignite said fire was dripping irony


the dripping irony of a church that mixes some wild caucasian mix of fundamentalist Christianity and Shintoism to believe that inanimate objects might possess demons and that the only way to rid said objects of these spirits is a raucous combination of prayer and....wait for it....FIRE

:eyes:

the other more likely scenario is a ninja like liberal operation to infiltrate the contractor's employment pool (AS electricians no less), fray the wires (the fire started in the walls), and time this sabotage to occur within a 110 day window (the period since dear Sarah was introduced on to the national scene) AFTER construction of the church which occurred probably 10 years ago* (this implies the keen insight to know, like Newt and Kristol, that some day the former weather-girl and then mayor would some day be the VP nominee of a national party).

:sarcasm:

* I was wrong about this, the church is only a year or two old.

[tanyev]

2. So without even talking to the pastor, Sarah offered a very public apology

that someone might have burned it down because they hated her. Hmmm. :tinfoilhat:

[underpants]

3. Exactly

of course if she talked to him (really who has time for that when you have to be so FABULOUS all the time?) IF she had talked to him she might have found out that there had been no threats so there was no reason to foist herself back in the headlines....oh I see that IS why she didn't talk to him.

[lpbk2713]

4. You betcha.

LMFAO. Failin' continues to be the gift that keeps on giving.


:rofl: :rofl:

[malaise]

6. Given the grifter's obsession with daily national coverage

I'd start the investigation by interviewing her. She's crazy enough to have arranged this.