Getting Political
As most of us probably are, I’m following this election more closely than I have ever followed an election before. I haven’t generally considered myself a politically minded person, yet Bill Maher’s show on HBO has peaked my interest enough that I want to know more.
So like most of us at the J-school and hopefully out there in the real world, I took a gander at Sarah Palin’s interview with Charles Gibson. Unfortunately I did not see it when it aired. My first glimpse of it was a clip or two from Real Time, and Bill was sure to show that clip of her being asked about the Bush Doctrine, looking like a deer caught in someones headlights.
What I find most interesting is that when I later attempted to view the entire interview on ABC.com, that section of the interview was left out. I watched the whole thing twice just to be sure.
For a second I thought I was loosing my mind and didn’t see or hear what I thought I witnessed on Real Time. But when I looked for the same interview on you-tube. I found several different parodies of that question done by different people on the Internet. My frustration in not being able to find the full interview quickly, is why I turned to ABC.com.
This is a little disturbing to me because I’m not quite sure what ABC is trying to do here. Though it is rather embarrassing that she couldn’t remember what the pinnacle doctrine of the current administration was, it shouldn’t have been edited out of the interview. It was what she said. Did they edit it out because it’s embarrassing for the country should she and John McCain be elected, or did it happen because the station has a Republican bias?
I feel sorry for her that she was caught off guard like that but she should have expected it and been prepared. I understand in an interview that broad, you can’t be prepared for everything. But that’s just tragic.
Here’s a link to the video on ABC…
http://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=Sarah%20Palin%20Charles%20Gibson&type=
Here’s the one on youtube: