Thursday, November 19, 2009

Some of these things are not like the others

Doug Ross compares and contrasts Charlie Gibson's interview questions for Barack Obama with those for Sarah Palin.
Gibson's Interview Questions for Obama:

• How does it feel to break a glass ceiling?
• How does it feel to “win”?
• How does your family feel about your “winning”, breaking a glass ceiling?
• Who will be your VP?
• Should you choose Hillary Clinton as VP?
• Will you accept public finance?
• What issues is your campaign about?
• Will you visit Iraq?
• Will you debate McCain at a town hall?
• What did you think of your competitor’s [Clinton's] speech?

Gibson's Interview Questions for Palin:

• Do you have enough qualifications for the job you’re seeking?
• Specifically have you visited foreign countries and met foreign leaders?
• Aren’t you conceited to be seeking this high level job?
• Questions on foreign policy...
• ...territorial integrity of Georgia
• ...allowing Georgia and Ukraine to be members of NATO
• ...NATO treaty
• ...Iranian nuclear threat
• ...what to do if Israel attacks Iran
• ...Al Qaeda motivations
• ...the Bush Doctrine
• ...attacking terrorists harbored by Pakistan
• ...Is America fighting a holy war? [misquoted Palin]

Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric both intentionally attacked Palin with questions designed to embarrass. Had Obama been queried with the same devious intentions, he'd have been reduced to the blubbering teleprompter-less soul we saw... in Japan.
Gotcha!

h/t: Dissecting Leftism

- JP

1 comment:

  1. I saw Gibson's very first interview with 0bama, and it was all about 0bama's favorite subject, himself. Gibson asked him such tough questions as: where were you born? How did your parents meet? How did you meet your wife? and "what are your kids like?" Not a single foreign policy or even domestic policy question for the full half hour.

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