The first part of the Sarah Palin interview by Charles Gibson on ABC. And already the controversy is flying.
NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Gibson’s interviews with Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will form the basis of a special prime-time edition of “20/20″ Friday, ABC said Wednesday.
Gibson is traveling to Fairbanks and Wasilla, Alaska, for the first TV interviews with Palin since she was selected as John McCain’s running mate. The first excerpts of the talks will be shown on “World News” Thursday.
Gibson is having three separate interviews with Palin, ABC said. Parts of the interviews will be spread around other ABC news programs, including “Nightline” and “Good Morning America.”
The prime-time special, at 10 p.m. EDT, will also include a bio of Palin by ABC’s Kate Snow and a round-table discussion on the presidential race moderated by George Stephanopoulos.
The Alaska Republican has proven to be a ratings-grabber during her short time on the national political scene. Her speech to the GOP national convention last week was seen by more than 40 million people, according to Nielsen Media Research.
A Fox News Channel documentary, “Governor Palin: An American Woman” last Saturday was the highest-rated prime-time documentary in the network’s history, with 2.7 million viewers.
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Which was the only thing that would have erected McCain’s flaccid campaign. Fortunately, most people shower after a wet dream.
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Sarah 4 POTUS in 2012!!!
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sarah palin…the GOP right-winged robot for VP! On sale now at the nearest town with population-6,000. she answers each question without any thought…when a question comes up that she is unclear on, she repeats her previous answer…when asked to say yes or no, she shakes her hand…the robot has one glitch. it was never programmed for bush doctrine, but luckily charlie clarified for the prepared, qualified robot. get one now and it comes with a grandpa, 10 houses, and a franchise of beer
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and idiot Barack Hussain thinks we have 57 states - he said he’s visited all 57 states of our country. He’s an educated idiot! He was chewed up by O’Reilly!!!
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Sarah Palin 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020
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she didnt answer any question shes full of bs
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If you seriously think Palin is smart, then you must be a retard. She went to Idaho U. (which ranks where academically???) on a beauty pageant scholarship. She majored in Journalism, which Im sure is a “tough” major. She believes that Alaska being close to Russia counts as foreign experience, sad. Her intelligence ranks right up there w/ Bush. Only ppl bereft of intellect thinks she is smart. Obama graduated from TWO ivy league universities. One of which was Harvard, the best in the country.
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this woman is nothing but a disgrace with her radical views that won’t help the LARGE majority of our population, just the chosen few. Unbelievable how people are brainwashed by this. Look at the stats-Palin went to 6 schools before she got her undergraduate degree, YES UNDERGRAD degree. She is SOOOOO unqualified.
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Goldsphinix wrote: “Her intelligence ranks right up there w/ Bush. Only ppl bereft of intellect thinks she is smart. Obama graduated from TWO ivy league universities. One of which was Harvard, the best in the country.”That argument doesn’t wash. Bush graduated from Harvard too.
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Palin’s scary ! Shocking to hear how little she knows . She is a good parrot though , repeating the same thing over and over again.And she claims she is ready to be President? What is she smoking?? Enough is enough. We can’t take any more of this BS !
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Sorry to interrupt, but didn’t Obama say virtually the same thing regarding Pakistan and terrorism?
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Obama graduated from Columbia Sum Cum Laude, and Harvard Law top of his class. Bush graduated from Yale with a C average. He only got into Yale b/c his dad worked for the CIA, and his family donated large sums of money to the school. Essentially, b/c his family has a lot of money they school passed him through. Get your facts straight.
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It is deeply troubling to me that the possibility of a dim-witted ignoramus being the President is a very real one.
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bush went to Yale
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“Get your facts straight.”Calm down. Celebrate your candidate’s Ivy League degrees. Tell yourself that Bush’s Ivy League degrees are bogus and bought. I was only pointing out the elitist claim can be made by both Repubs and Dems. I do admire your bold “you’re a retard” argument.
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“Bush went to Yale”Undergraduate degree was from Yale, MBA was from Harvard.
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Palin spent her first college semester at Hawaii Pacific College, transferring in 1983 to North Idaho College and then to the University of Idaho. She attended Matanuska-Susitna College in Alaska for one term, returning to the University of Idaho to complete her Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism, graduating in 1987.[17][18]
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Smart? She doesn’t even know what the Bush Doctrine is. The Bush Doctrine, Sarah, is a foreign policy that says that we have the “right” to attack any country we feel is a supposed threat even though we have no proof and to treat any country that harbors terrorist groups as terrorists themselves.
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Look at the CHANGE of positions of the chairs and feet in the Part 3 Interview. Sarah Palin seems to be looking past Charlie Gibson and straining to read a teleprompter or cue cards.Their chairs are no longer placed directly in front of each other this time.
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Lol, this dumbass doesn’t know what the Bush doctrine is.
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The more the left hates her, the more everyone else knows she is the right choice.According to goldsphinx:People are stupid unless they attend one of the Ivy League universitiesIts easy to see the elitist attitude on the.”We want change! Change Change! - Oh wait, not her, she is too normal”
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So goldsphinx must also be an admissions director at Harvard?So now, not only does one have to attend an Ivy league school to be smart, but they also have to graduate with honors falling out of every orifice?Or does one just have to be a democrat?
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“Smart? She doesn’t even know what the Bush Doctrine is”Well it seems you don’t know what it is either.
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EDUCATION:1 semester, Hawaii Pacific College 1 semester, North Idaho College1 semester, Matanuska-Susitna College B.S. (1987) Communications-journalism, University of IdahoPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:MediaUtilitiesPOLITICAL EXPERIENCE:Governor, Alaska, 2006-presentFormer President, Alaska Conference of MayorsFormer Mayor/Manager, Wasilla City (Population 7,025)Former Council Member, Wasilla City Council
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So its perfectly ok for McCain to continue to give tax breaks, bail outs to corporations off the backs of the middle class to the upper 2% because they were to greedy and assumed more risk but any breaks for the middle class is “social welfare”? Its ok for McCain to continue no bid contracts to companies who’ve yet to completes projects in iraq, pay contractors 3 times more than they pay troops for doing the same jobs and vote agaisnt the GI bill that would give relief to troops? What reform?
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Wow Holy hell and she might be the next VP. Heaven help us Georgia invaded Ossetia dam who is briefing her cuz she really suxs at foreign policy. If the McCain ticket makes its I hope his and her job come with an idiot manual (how not to fk America) PS Maccain Czechoslovakia no longer exists
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Google: “Bush Doctrine” (Click Wikipedia link)and do some reading and get educated. Charlie Gibson tried to sandbag her and was pretty much clueless himself.Governor Palin’s statement: “In what respect, Charlie.” Was entirely appropriate. She took him to school and most of the media and the liberals are too stupid and ignorant to know it.Please keep attacking Governor Palin with lies, false “quotes” and misrepresentations of the facts, boys and girls… McCain/Palin 2008
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People keep marking this comment as spam. Interesting what people do when they have no argument - just try to bury the others.
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Palin’s response was very appropriate, “Bush Doctrine” is a very ambiguous term at best, it was smart to ask him to clarify what he meant, rather than just assume that he meant one thing or the other.
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The question was stupid as Hell!!! The Bush Doctrine is a journalistic term used to describe some foreign policy principles of United States president George W. Bush, enunciated in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Scholars identify seven different “Bush Doctrines,” including the notion that states that harbor terrorists should be treated no differently than terrorists themselves, the willingness to use a “coalition of the willing” if the United Nations does not address threats.
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clubracer37What Bush R U talking about went to Yale
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There is no written or formal document for “The Bush Doctrine” Her answer was as good as any and more broad than his narrow explanation of the “The Bush Doctrine” Charlie Gibson was playing games and all the stupid liberals watching had no idea of what he was asking.
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Just saw Palin gloating and snickering with Charlie Gibson about how she bet’s Barack is sorry now that he didn’t pick Hillary. I think she believes that being a woman is all she needs. That may have been true until America saw her interview and lack of knowledge and understanding. There R many people having second thoughts. She’s definitely no Hillary.
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Palin said the Iraq War is a task from God. I do to. The Iraq War is God’s plan like she said. And I don’t see why people do not believe this.
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weston expand on your stupid statement. Why specifically didn’t you like about her answers because she did answer every stupid question asked of her.
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“The Bush Doctrine is a journalistic term used to describe some foreign policy”… bla bla bla… The line of questioning dictates which doctrine. You all know that. Now look, we dont blame you for trying to protect you superstar, milf, messiah as she fails in one of biggest fake, slow ball interviews reporter Charlie Gibson has ever done.
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What is the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull?An ability to lieAn ability to self inflateAn ability to extinct polar bearsAn ability to ensure a rise in teenage pregnancy.An ability to flip flopAn ability to destroy the environment
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Hahaha RIGHT ON
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Didn’t Palin just admit her candidacy for vice presidency is based primarily on gender when she said that Omaba is regretting not picking Hillary.
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sorry, Obama
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It would be nice if she could pronounce “nuclear” properly.
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WHAT THE HELL IS SHE SAYING AT 4:10?
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AND WHAT THE HELL IS SHE SAYING AT 7:35?
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Palin did an excellent job answering Charlies question. She stood her own and she will be an excellent VP.
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Delusional. what a joke!This woman is dangerous.God help us all.
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Oh my God!!! She is so unqualified! What is she talking about???????
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No. She stated that Obama likely regrets not selecting HC as his VP running mate.That could be for many reasons, not simply gender. You have to remember that conservatives do not play the identity politics game like liberals do.
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it is terrifying that this person could land in the white house. god help us all.
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hmmm, is palin the anti-christ?!
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Look at the terrified look on her face when asked about the “Bush Doctrine” (starting at 7:52). She had no idea what it was. There is only one “respect” in which you could address it. She was just grasping at straws trying to redirect the conversation to a more generalized “world view”. The only people I can imagine supporting her must do about as much of their “homework” as she apparently does of hers. Pitiful.
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Where is the perky Sarah from the Convention? She is not prepared for interviews. “Canada, Mexico”? yeah you forgot Rusia that you can see from the back of your yard bitch.
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I just don’t understand, why “not blinking” makes you more qualified in making decisions?
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The only ones that would be terrified would the terrorists/dictatorships. Let me tell you what would be terrifing. To let a man like BO who is soundly endorsed by the terrorist groups and dictatorships and communist goverments all over the world capture the White House. It’s very simple, in that case, you vote for the other guy; I don’t care if a chimpanize is the other guy; we absoultely do NOT want a President who the terriorists want to take advantage of.
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You sure got that right.
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No, the fact that BO is endorsed by terrorists and dictatorships around the world virtually unanimously. Gee, I wonder why thugs like those would want Obama to win? Maybe because they know he’d go easy on them and then they would take full advantage of BO’s naive utopia vision?
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1. not blinking is idiotic2. shes been to 5 countries in the world… impressive! .. OH and shes a crazy fanatic who will embarrass the US with her 100 year old views
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Integrating the Ukraine and Georgia into the NATO under these politial circumstances, and not second guessing the choice of a soon to be elected israeli government, puts governor palin into two political situations, where she can either loose her credibility or is forced to react and start a world war. And this, within a ten minute interview. That is simply not the way international diplomacy works!
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I don’t recall Washington, Lincoln, TR, and Reagan attending Ivy League schools and they turned out just fine.
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I really recommend you, not to let the opinoin of terorists have any influence on your voting.
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For some reason the left thinks being endorsed by terrorist thugs is a good thing.There are many reasons NOT to vote for Obama, any single one of which is sufficient to make him one of the worst possible choices for POTUS in a long time.
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re “pronounce “nuclear” properly”Yeah, that’s the most pressing issue on my mind!Never mind all that trivial war, terrorism, taxes, economy, energy, etc.
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Yeah, I’m one of those weird people that actually considers people based on their merits rather than their race, sex, or whatever.I would support Palin regardless of sex and I would oppose Obama regardless of race.
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Man i cant take this i hope these retards never get in office.
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She thinks she has foreign policy experience because she is near to Russia. She has never spoke to anyone there. She is not that bright and I do not want her leading the country.
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Jeezly Crow…a first year editing student could have cut this piece better than the jokers at ABC. I think Palin did a good job defending herself from the Grand Inquisition that was on display here. I think it shows how truly scared the Left and Broadcast Liberals are of her. Where was the concern for experience when John Edwards was running for VP with Kerry?
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You can never go wrong by associating yourself with a zionist agenda, especially in politics. Do your research people, find out who actually runs the show in georgia, then ask why this government cares so much about Georgia.
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Another Jesus Freak….Where are the choices? Obama? McCain? Give me a break!Bush looks smarter than her…
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Where is the concern over Obama’s lack of judgment and experience?I’ve noticed that almost all of the criticism in these comments is nearly verbatim from Keith Olberman.
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Randy Scheunemann, the greatest reason NOT to vote for McCain. Dirty lobbyist as his right hand man.Sarah Palin got butchered in this interview, she didn’t even know what Charlie was talking about when he mentioned the Bush Doctrine.And being close to Russia is not foreign experience.
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Those dictators and “terrorist thugs” are well aware of their current standing with the US. They are preying on the narrow-mindedness of certain voters. Do you think they are blind to the fact that their endorsement would essentially criminalize who they were endorsing? In their situation, you vote for who you DON’T like.
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adding those comments into an interview that I would like to make my own judgments on are the clear sign of a first class douchebagthanks for thinking for me malagent you fuckwad
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The Bush Doctrine? Sounds a lot like the JFK doctrine, the Woodrow Wilson Doctrine, the FDR Doctrines: “we have the right of anticipatory self-defense and we have the right to a pre-emptive strike against any other country that we think is going to attack us”
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“energy independence” i.e. selling Alaska to the oil corporations. The US does not have enough oil to be independent. We need to develop alternative energy sources. Palin/Bush/Cheney are oil people. America has lost precious time because our leaders have not invested in alternate energy. Palin promotes Alaskan oil like my governor promotes Maine lumber: its our natural resource, the way our state makes money. She doesn’t have national interests in mind, just Alaskan profits.
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I could have done without the comments.
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defending herself? from basic questions? she deserves to be pubicly vetted. The other 3 man have.
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can you see this clown speaking to other heads of state? i can’t wait for the debate with biden. he will tear her to shreds!!! she went to mexico? that takes a passport babe! we invaded iraq unprovoked. she has no clue. she has not answered one question directly. gibson seems amazed.
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I could list dozens of reasons not to vote for Obama.As for the Bush doctrine, she answered it well & has a better grasp on what it is than what the interview does.
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What a dumb bitch… When I heard how many people found her “inspirational”, I vomited.
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Hey Thevideosucks, You must like little boys and fn dumb to think a failed community organizer cn run this country!
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p.s. Charlie Gibson is a douchebag!!! Death to objective journalism !!! R.I.P.