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October 21, 2008 06:43 PM UTC

Dobson Nails Palin

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  • by: Colorado Pols

For one of those extremely rare interviews (mind out of the gutter, readers), as the Colorado Springs Gazette reports:

One of Sarah Palin’s most prominent local supporters, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, didn’t go to her rally Monday at Sky Sox stadium, but he did manage to sneak in a phone interview with her after the event. The 18-minute interview will air Wednesday on Dobson’s “Focus on the Family” radio show.

Tom Minnery, senior vice president of government and public policy of Focus on the Family Action, the lobbying arm of Focus, wouldn’t divulge the details of the interview. But he said Dobson spoke with Palin about the pressure of the campaign and the attacks on her since Sen. John McCain chose her in August as his running mate.

“She is smart, articulate and has a Christian testimony, so we can see why the national media is out to get her,” Minnery said Monday.

Dobson had once said he would never vote for McCain. But soon after McCain chose Palin, Dobson said he vote for the Arizona senator for president.

Minnery said Dobson is impressed by the Alaska governor’s conservative values, including her opposition to abortion, even in cases of rape and incest…

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  1. and the hard right in general is the culture of victimization they’re building. “She is smart, articulate and has a Christian testimony, so we can see why the national media is out to get her.” Oh, boo fucking hoo. She won’t do press conferences, she can’t answer questions asked at the VP debate, and she crumbled when interviewed by Katie Couric. Was all this part of a vast conspiracy by a hostile MSM В® ?

    This culture of victimization is a dangerous thing. I worry what the less stable members of this group will do in the near future.

      1. But how has she governed?

        Palin has deeply held personal beliefs.  She lives them.

        But in libertarian leaning Alaska, she has made no effort to ban abortion.

        A person can have personal beliefs that govern their personal life, and still uphold the law of the land.  

        Your revulsion to the ladies personal views says more about you than her.

        1. So I guess that goes to how she’s governed.  In an NPR interview, editor of the Anchorage or Juneau (can’t remember) times said that she does not have a distinction between personal and professional, that quote was from a colleague and friend of hers.

          While I admire Palin for stepping up to the batters box and trying real hard, I don’t think she warrants a full throated defense.  At this point, she’s done nothing more than start a few fires, excite some people, and pissed off just about everyone actually fighting for womens’ rights.

          My revulsion has nothing to do with her being a woman, it is that she has cheapened and vulgarized (Peggy Noonan) politics in a way that denigrates the work of many great statesmen.  Politics can be dirty, it can be ugly, but those that truly work for the good of this nation seem to take those dirty and difficult issues and make them understandable and noble.  It isn’t a partisan thing, if the dems had nominated her, I’d probably have to find an airsickness bag there too.

      2. At the end of September Senator Biden had given over 150 interviews and news conferences with the press.  Gov. Palin certainly didn’t come anywhere near that number.  

        1. Palin More Accessible To Press Than Obama, Biden And McCain

          How many reports did we see after Sarah Palin was chosen to be the GOP vice presidential candidate claiming Palin was being “hidden” from the press?

          CBS has a surprising piece out showing that as of now, Sarah Palin is more available to her traveling press corp than any of the other candidates.

          It was less than two weeks ago when Sarah Palin astonished her traveling press corps by lifting the curtain (literally) and journeying to the back of her campaign plane to answer reporters’ questions for the first time after 40 days on the campaign trail. But the candidate who has been criticized for having a bunker mentality when it came to the national media can now lay legitimate claim to being more accessible than either Joe Biden or Barack Obama.

          In the past two days alone, Palin has answered questions from her national press corps on three separate occasions. On Saturday, she held another plane availability, and on Sunday, she offered an impromptu press conference on the tarmac upon landing in Colorado Springs. A few minutes later, she answered even more questions from reporters during an off-the-record stop at a local ice cream shop.

          By contrast, Biden hasn’t held a press conference in more than a month, and Obama hasn’t taken questions from his full traveling press corps since the end of September. John McCain-who spent most of the primary season holding what seemed like one, never-ending media availability-hasn’t done one since Sept. 23.

          In fact, they report that Palin seems to enjoy herself so much that her aides practically have to drag her away from her press corps.

          Biden, on the other hand, when he does talk to the press, seems to screw it up so badly I am surprised they don’t put him on an island somewhere and gag him until the election is over.

          1. and on air interviews which are usually just the candidate and the interviewer.  I want to add an interesting historical fact.  In 1960 it was Richard Nixon who made himself available to the press all the time during the general election campaign while John Kennedy almost never spoke with the press corps covering him. Based on Nixon’s paranoid view of the media, it is hard to believe but true.

          2. She has been doing more interviews with friendly media (does Rush count), but avoids interviews and press conferences with the national media.

            Please post a link so that your source can be verified.

      3. I don’t recall any press conferences held by Palin; I’m thinking specifically of those events where she appears at a podium in front of members of the media and takes their questions. If she’s done any of those, I apologize for my misstatement; but that apology hinges upon someone linking coverage of one of those conferences.

        1. and Biden has been less, but

          Since joining the Republican ticket as Senator John McCain’s running mate, Ms. Palin has still not held an official full-length news conference…

          http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10…

          In my search I also discovered that

          By keeping Palin on a leash McCain allowed a perception to form that she wasn’t ready for prime time.  Palin has to fight that perception now, and with their ticket already at a disadvantage to a hostile, pro-Obama media that doesn’t help

          http://www.kxmb.com/News/Natio…

          I tend to disagree with her being ready for prime time and agree with Hutchens, who tried so hard to be fair.

          I would like to ask her whether by this she means that creationism ought to be given equal time in science classes. And I have a follow-up: How many years old does the Republican nominee for the vice presidency of the United States believe the Earth to be? There are several other questions I would like to ask her, as, no doubt, would you. Lots of luck with that, because it seems that the Grand Old Party intends to go all the way to Election Day without exposing the No. 2 person on its ticket-the person who would become chief executive if President John McCain succumbed to illness-to a press conference. I have been as fair as possible in quoting Gov. Palin. I have used only sentences from her that make some sort of grammatical sense. It would have been easy enough-and relevant enough-to cite answers that she gave to Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric that appeared to be uttered in no known language.

          http://www.slate.com/id/2202642/

          The nice thing about no having an actual press conference is that you can stop asking questions at any time, without explanation.

  2. she is one classy trollop….

    I found a great video of Chomsky actually telling people why they should vote against McCain. He basically says that over time, the population fares much better than when a Republican is in office. If anyone in this swing state has concerns over who to vote for, this may help you decide.

    Palin being totally against abortion is a perfect example of how we would all fare better without a republican administration.

    1. Noam Chomsky (Since the 1960s, he has become known more widely as a political dissident, an anarchist,and a libertarian socialist intellectual.)

      So a dissident socialist anarchist favors Obama, and this is news because?

      Wouldn’t all dissident socialist anarchists favor fellow socialist Obama over capitalist conservative McCain.

      Now if you have video of a famous communist endorsing McCain, put that up.  That would be interesting.

        1. A spokesman for McCain, a long-time critic of Russia, had a simple explanation for the fundraising letter’s arrival at the Russian mission in New York: “It was an error in the mailing list.”

      3. Long before I knew Chomsky as a political activist, I knew him as a man of astonishing intelligence and acumen.  He basically invented 20th century linguistics, contributed (second only to Turing, Church, and Godel, I think) huge chunks of the foundations of computer science, as well as his significant contributions to numerous other fields.  While he (and the rest of the world) have become far more partisan in recent years, his analysis of U.S. foreign policy in Nicaragua and Cuba was biting, to the point, and showed great clarity of thought.  In short, Chomsky is a true Aristotelian, and among the most intelligent people to live in the past three or four generations.

        Does this mean I immediately agree with everything he says?  No.  But it’s silly to suggest he’s not worth listening to.

        1. Did I suggest he is not worth listening to? I listened to him.

          What I said was that it was no surprise

          that a dissident socialist anarchist favors fellow socialist Obama over capitalist conservative McCain.

          I think that is a logical and accurate statement.

          1. except for characterizing Chomsky as an anarchist (I’ll accept the socialist part) and Obama as a socialist (signs of your own unreasonable perspective) I agree with your initial assessment. But, OTOH, it is a little surprising that he endorsed anyone at all – I thought he had gone the Nader route, ie, there’s no meaningful difference between the parties.

            1. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

              Avram Noam Chomsky  born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher,[2][3][4] cognitive scientist, political activist, author, and lecturer. He is an Institute Professor emeritus and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[5] Chomsky is well known in the academic and scientific community as the father of modern linguistics.[6][7] Since the 1960s, he has become known more widely as a political dissident, an anarchist,[8] and a libertarian socialist intellectual.

              1. Just kidding. I think I’ll look up that reference (footnote 8 is: ^ Noam Chomsky, Chomsky on Anarchism (2005), AK Press, pg. 5) just to be sure that’s a fair interpretation. I read (well, slogged through) some Chomsky back in college and it didn’t sound like anarchy to me. Maybe he’s been reading Bakunin…

                  1. I can’t remember reading anything about how he viewed domestic issues. It was either a critique of our foreign policy or how we conduct political campaigns in this country. I guess I can’t really hang a socialist hat on his head without knowing what his views on the economy are…

                2. if I remember correctly.  That’s strictly speaking a form of anarchy, so “anarchist” is probably correct.  However, it’s quite different from the set of beliefs or values most of us would associate with anarchists.

              1. I am pretty sure when they say “Newsy”  on this blog, they are reerring to me.

                It took me a second or two to even get the reference.  I take it your name comes from the newpaper or magazine business where a “stringer” is a contract or free lance writer, is that right?

                So I will mark this day down as you suggest.  

      4. that only the over 50 crowd understands.  The Cold War ended almost twenty years ago and the Republican ticket is attempting to introduce fear and loathing into the campaign by characterizing Senator Obama as a “socialist.” I don’t think the word carries the same connotations it once did.  In the past, that word meant someone sympathized with the Soviet block or communism. I don’t think people look at it quite that way now because communism has been discreditied. This seems like the generals who are prepared to fight the last war but not this one. McCain and Palin are using an outdated strategy.  

      5. To my knowledge Chomsky has never supported either party’s candidate (at least not since his anarcho-days began.)

        This means that McCain is a special brand of suck. If Chomsky is saying “vote against this douche and do it by voting for ahem- that one” then its significant.

        And he’s right. The reality for so many people is that you have to vote against someone. Which is why the Repubs started saying they were anti-abortion, anti-gay etc. All that talk about fuckin gets the sexually repressed riled up! When they vote against a Dem, they squirt a little.  

    2. Smart guy? Sure. Appeals to independents? I don’t think so. Do I agree with anything the man says? Hardly.

      He’s very extreme. Not sure if that’s who you’re going to convince people with.

      1. Indys aren’t the only ones who can be indecisive about picking a party. There are people who are too smart for that, they are called leftists. They are the ones who question the overall legitimacy of bullshit.

        Try it sometime. Its refreshing.

        🙂

  4. Sarah Palin’s college years left no lasting impression

    In the five years of her collegiate career, spanning four universities in three states, Palin left behind few traces. Not many professors or students even remember her

    …

    Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, however, is barely remembered at all.

    In the five years of her collegiate career, spanning four universities in three states, Palin left behind few traces.

    “Looking at this dynamic personality now, it mystifies me that I wouldn’t remember her,” said Jim Fisher, Palin’s journalism instructor at the University of Idaho, where she graduated with a bachelor of science degree in journalism in 1987.

    Palin, he said, took his public affairs reporting class, an upper-division course limited to 15 students. “It’s the funniest damn thing,” Fisher said. “No one can recall her.”

    http://www.latimes.com/news/na…

      1. Sarah Palin’s college years “left no lasting impression”

        Unlike Joe Biden’s law school years where he was caught plagiarizing – which did leave an impression.

    2. I sent the following email to the author and to the reader rep at the LA Times:

      “Very “in-depth” article about Sarah Palins college years … I’m looking forward to reading the article entitled OBAMA: THE COLLEGE YEARS in next week’s edition. It should be a good one since you have had two years to research (based on the comprehensive article you wrote with only a few short weeks of research)!

    3. I went through five years of undergraduate school and three another five years of graduate school at four universities. I am sure that, with the exception of one professor, I left no lasting impression either.

      Most of the teaching I received was by graduate students, who are now for the most part back in India, China, Morocco, or Iran, where they belong. Or at least I hope they are.

      1. I am remembered by my peers.  I occasionally bump into people that I had class with 20 years ago and they remember me.

        But then again, I was a strong personality. I was very acedemic and very vocal. I got a professor to write me a formal apology and he was denied tenure, because he shrouded me for pushing back against his Ortega/Castro apologism (I was a lefty, but not an America bad/Everyone else good type).

        Obama is remembered, McCain is remembered, Biden is remembered.  Palin wasn’t.

        Besides her schools weren’t Big, they were small subsidiary campuses.  

          1. If the general public was buying all the negatives the McCain campaign is selling, Obama’s numbers would be going down, not up. So call him a socialist, bitch about Chomsky, Ayers, whatever. It’s just red meat for the base. Palin pals around with secessionists and McCain pals around with convicted criminal G. Gordon Liddy,  and nobody cares about any of that either, except the hard core Dem base. Probably why the Obama campaign isn’t wasting their time pushing it.

            Instead they’re staying on message and more people believe what Obama says about his tax policy and economic plan than what McCain/Palin say about them.   Obama is polling higher by big margins on those issues.

            The fact that a new and more out there attack comes out of the McCain campaign every other day seems to be making them all pretty ineffective.  I mean does anybody but the base really believe that Obama is a secret Muslim socialist with close ties to terrorism? Is this what most people want to hear about?

            But we’ll know for sure soon enough, won’t we?  

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