Screw it. We'll do it live.

[TheBigotBasher]

Doing a live tv interview, especially an in depth one is not for the faint of heart and there are few serious politicians who would want to risk a a half hour interview, especially in the run up to an election. We have have course forgotten the Republican Wonder Woman, Sarah Palin.

Well according to a former Republican strategist her awful interview performances at the last General Election were not caused by her lack of media savvy, her failure was caused not by not demanding a live interview. What is worse is that Republicans still believe that the Couric interview, which would in almost all circumstances have been a soft-ball interview even with some local yokel Republican District Committee Man was a TV ambush moment.

So his solution - go live.

A ground rule which is very simple and should never be broken. That being that if you are a Republican national candidate, ONLY do live interviews. As they did not request or get the live interviews, the McCain campaign gurus should have at least insisted that edited teasers not be released prior to or following the interview. Of course, that did not happen either and Gibson and ABC and Couric and CBS released selected and edited snippets with the express purpose of putting Governor Palin in the worst possible light with the American people.
Decades of evidence prove that the major networks have not always been the fairest of venues for Republicans. With a live interview, the candidate, just as much as the anchor or reporter, controls the outcome. No words taken out of context, and no anchors maliciously editing the comments of the GOP candidate after the fact.

http://townhall.com/columnists/DouglasMacKinnon/2010/08/06/the_mccain_campaign_still_owes_palin_an_apology/page/full

Due to some idiotic hero worship on the part of the Republicans what they do not understand was that the Gibson and Couric interviews were such car crash tv moments because these interviewers were known for their soft ball questions. Those interviews had at the time Democratic supporters annoyed because everyone expected them to be Palin fluff pieces. The pre talk walk to the studio where Palin discussed some Republican exec recusing himself from parts of the campaign, the fireside nature of the chats. It would have been a campaign piece for anyone who had the slightest bit of intelligence. The interviewers did not fail Palin the Wonder Woman, Palin the incompetent could not even perform up to scratch in a fluff piece.

Depite Fox giving her almost daily media training at the expense of News International shareholders, she still has not improved. OK she has ghost writers for books, facebook and even twitter; on tv she still is unable to properly complete a sentence never mind communicate an idea. She fails on Fox every time she is on and on Fox she gets so much prompting you wonder if her glasses are autocues.

Comparing her to George H Bush on live tv is laughable. He had years of not answering questions in a convincing way. It was his career. His involvement at the CIA would have given him a media savvy most politicians would give their teeth for. Sarah Palin is not in any way CIA Director material.

So go on do it. Really. Do it live. Such an interview would be worth it just for the new Republican English lexicon that would evolve.

[bahrbearian]

1. F**k It we'll do it live , F**k it we'll do it live!

[bahrbearian]

2. Who didn't snicker at the names Trip and Trig

[KharmaTrain]

3. She's Turned Into A National Freak Show...

Other than the 20% of the great unhinged who actually think she's got some real political chops, the vast majority of the known universe have seen in many forms and fashions how Bible Spice is vapid and outright stupid. All the coaching and bullshit can't put the shine on the pitbull in lipstick. She's the new Dan Quayle...a punchline...a car wreck that people enjoy rubber necking to. In short, she's a celebrity politician in the same vein a Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan are celebrity actresses.

The GOOP bench is so lean, Lady Bla Bla rises above the rest, but she's getting competition. If there's one thingthe GOOP is full of (other than massive amounts of bullshit) are obnoxious white women who spew the most ignorant and vile rhetoric and are trying to manipulate the media ala Grifterella. Hopefully this fad will die starting in November when many of the "Mama Grizleys" get taken down at the polls.

[TheBigotBasher]

4. Of course the views of the people who see her as

an incomprehensible nut-case and not the US answer to Merkel, Thatcher, or sny Country that has or had a Conservative female politician are wrong and their opinion is shaped by "librul media".

Palin is an idiot and no amount of Faux news media training can change that. So Republicans will of course just blame the bad libruls.

[FSogol]

5. Funny how she can't get over her bad interview s with Couric and Gibson.

And of course, it is someone else's fault. Take the blame and move on? No way, not her style.

[TheBigotBasher]

6. Well if she thinks doing it live is the solution

the tv station could put it on pay per view if questions got more difficult than what is your name or (as an earlier poster noted) name your family.