Barbara Walters will sit down with former Vice Presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for a five-part series of ABC News interviews to begin airing on "Good Morning America" Nov. 17, the morning her highly anticipated book "Going Rogue: An American Life" is released.ABC describes the upcoming interview, the first of Sarah Palin by Walters, as "wide-ranging" and says it will cover Palin's public life, both as Alaska's governor and the 2008 Republican Party's vice presidential candidate, as well as some aspects of her private life.
ABC plans to string portions of the interview out over several days, with segments scheduled to air on "Nightline" Nov. 17, on "Good Morning America" Nov. 18 and on "20/20" Nov. 20. It will also air excerpts from the interview across ABC News' various platforms.
- JP
Excellent! Some may panic at the thought of Palin doing a sit down interview with Walters, but I really think Palin will be aggressive and knowledgeable on issues very dear to her like national security, fiscal responsibility and energy. I like that she's taking these interviews head on. She's going to develop a thick armour to deal with arrows that will surely come her way should she decided to run in 2012.
ReplyDeleteWhy, oh, why another edited out multi-part interview? Why couldn't they insist on a single/twice block of time? Why do they do this to Sarah every time? It was ABC that gratuitously edited out her answers, not CBS. Now they'll have opportunity to do it again. They'll prolong the damage as long as they can.
ReplyDeleteSarah needs better handlers. She can't go into the lions' den every time without protection.
I agree with Wisetrog. In a straight, unedited live, or live to tape interview, I have full confidence in Sarah besting Walters. However, they are going to slice and dice and take her responses out of context again. Really bad decision. I wonder if her publisher is forcing her to do this under the terms of her contract.
ReplyDeleteI hope she will record her own tape of the entire interview and put it up on her Facebook page unedited to try and keep Walters honest. However, the damage will still be done as more people will see the ABC distorted clips than the full interview.
Guys, do you want this woman to be president?
ReplyDeleteIf she can't deal with the biased media, she can't run the country.
With her interviews with Oprah and Baba, she again sets herself up as the anti-Obama.
He who demonizes and then tries to delegitimize a WHOLE network who dares to criticize him. Let alone ever giving them an interview.
He who wouldn't watch the returns on a night when he knew he was gonna' lose big but instead watched a docu about his win last year.
He looks very small and cowardly.
She looks bold and fearless, going right into enemy media territory.
Either she can handle tough situations or she can't.
She cannot win the presidency by hiding from all media who are biased.
As Rush says, the media will NEVER like conservatives.
Sarah's also being the anti-Obama by doing SO MANY Fox interviews on the network where he won't appear.
Which just happens to be the highest-rated cable news channel and the #3 cable channel overall.
I wonder what kind of tree Palin would be if she were a tree. That's the kind of questions Baba asks.
What HrH said!
ReplyDeleteI agree that she has to be able to handle hostle media environments, but she should bring along her own camera crew to the record the interview.
ReplyDeleteThen, if ABC edits the interview like they did when she sat down with Professor Charlie, she'll have 'em Red (Star) handed.
- JP
If Sarah is planning on running in 2012, she has to dance with the devils. That would be the liberals in the media that loath her gutts. It's trial by fire for Sarah. If she can handle the media, she will be able to handle a presidential run easily.
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