Comments on: Latest from the Couric/McCain’s Choice Interview

By: hustleandfloe

hustleandfloe — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:25:22 +0000

All of this, from Bush to Palin, to the whole history of differing standards is just another statement of the terms of engagement for black folk in America and colored folk worldwide.

They will keep putting dummies in front of us as the ultimate and very knowledgeable insult... "look who I can put in front of all you super smart ...negroes. We know she's not smart. How does THAT feel?"

Same story line. Malcolm X once asked, Malcolm asked, "What do they call a black man with a Ph.D.?" Answer ain't changed in American minds...

Meritocracy is for the dusty encyclopedia and them people are just getting bolder every day, now finding ways that go back to calling Bush "folksy" (vs. "illiterate" for us) and to Palin herself saying it's time for "joe six pack" to be a chief executive.

let's just keep the fight. game ain't changing 'less we change it.

By: hustleandfloe

hustleandfloe — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:25:22 +0000

By: Teacher

Teacher — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:56:05 +0000

Word.

By: Teacher

Teacher — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:52:50 +0000

Kitty you said,” Is that where we are now, that ignorant and stupid are ideal qualities to run a country (don't answer, it's a rhetorical question)? Why bother to go to school, why bother to rack up thousands in student loans, why try to better yourself? Just bumble through life taking pride in your ignorance and you too can work in the Oval Office.”

Part of the outrage that I share with Rikyrah & others is that only white people (and their appointed agents) can get away with this. You and I can't be dullards and make it to the Oval Office, and it is a complete outrageous-travesty-mind-numbing-I-can't-even-find-words-to-express-how-shockingly-assulting-&-insulting-this-is….There can only be two words that sum up the situation and offer understanding, and those words are “white privilege.” None of us believe for one minute that GW Bush aka Chimpy, earned his undergrad or grad degrees, but it doesn't matter. As dumb as he is, everyone thinks he has a right to be leader of the free world. He has never been questioned the same way that Obama has, even though his 10 year old daughter is more intellectual than W. Everything that W has ever touched has failed, yet Elizabeth Hasselhoff had the temarity to question why Obama is qualified to be president. Were it not for sexism, They would make fun of her like that dummy, Dan Quayle, and let her go on to become VP and possibly president. The only thing Palin is doing for us is making us feel vastly intellectually superior, but we still dare not think we would be given the benefit of the doubt that she is given.

By: Myth

Myth — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:26:11 +0000

Palin has become a distraction because there are so many more issues of importance right now that must be dealt with. All of this media hype discussing Palin is ridiculous when our country is in a state of collapse economically. I have tried not to focus on Queen Sarah much, just wait for Thurs night. I honestly don't think she can answer any of the questions without making a fool of herself. She believes that she is a spin master but what she says trying to spin issues is total ignorance. Maybe after Thursday night, she will sink the whole McCain-Palin team and we won't have to focus on either of them anymore. I think she is going to start crying under the pressure.

By: Admiral_Komack

Admiral_Komack — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:24:08 +0000

It worked for George W. Bush…twice.

By: Admiral_Komack

Admiral_Komack — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:15:06 +0000

“it is going to take alot of spin to make sarah palin a viable candidate again.”

MSM: “We're just the guys to do it”

By: kesha

kesha — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:37:35 +0000

I agree and the whole situation is very scary…very scary.

By: andyfrombrooklyn

andyfrombrooklyn — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:03:55 +0000

i would argue that this is not just about white mediocrity. the goal is to celebrate the ignorance and stupidity of millions of voters so as to get them on your side so as to do whatever you want which is usually not in the best interests of the ignorant and stupid millions. ask germany's peasant proletariat how stalingrad and dresden worked out for them. the media is split between pundits who fear the ignorant reactionary millions and bosses who want to use these proles. that said…it is going to take alot of spin to make sarah palin a viable candidate again.

By: GreenLadyHere

GreenLadyHere — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:49:40 +0000

Miranda: See The Mudflats. There are stats about her declining "popularity." [from 80% down to 62%] I posted some of this in the Wed. Thread.

Obama-Biden '08!!

By: GreenLadyHere

GreenLadyHere — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:44:54 +0000

NMP: Palin is a master of the nonanswer. She can turn a 60-second response to a query about her specific solutions to healthcare challenges into a folksy story about how she's met people on the campaign trail who face healthcare challenges. All without uttering a word about her public-policy solutions to healthcare challenges.

Of the many "gems" that are contained in that article, I pulled this one out, BECAUSE it is sooooo true!!!

Hence, I hope that Ms. Ifill follows The Gov.'s NON-ANSWERS with this question -"Was there an ANSWER in there?" O.K. Maybe she can't be so crass. But she can ask her to give a "succinct summary" of her "answer." :>)

When I watch this alleged, fomatted debate, I'm going to see if I can find the ANSWER among the crap! {Wheat among the chaff.] I hope the news reporteres look for this too!

On the other hand, maybe their "rehearsals" may be aimed at shortening her responses. We'll see!!

NMP: Good find!! :>)

Obama-Biden '08!!

By: spirit_55z

spirit_55z — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:03:32 +0000

The biggest pressure you have as a journalist ever is to make sure you get an answer to your question” – Gwen Ifill

Gwen fell and broke her ankle, but she's still going to St. Loius for the debate. Go Gwen!!

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/…/gwen_ifill_bre...

By: MsKitty

MsKitty — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:43:40 +0000

I don't have much to add to all your comments, except to say if I hear/see one more comment that the bar is set so low that if Miss Sarah can get through the debate without walking into a wall then she wins, I will friggin SCREAM.

Is that where we are now, that it's ignorant and stupid are ideal qualities to run a country (don't answer, it's a rhetorical question)? Why bother to go to school, why bother to rack up thousands in student loans. Just bumble through life taking pride in your ignorance and you too can be work in the Oval Office.

If people are dumb enough to fall for this and put Palin and McCain (let's be real this is the actual order of the ticket), then this country deserves to cricle the drain and fall to Third World status.

Just had to get that off my chest.

By: NMP

NMP — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:30:41 +0000

An account from someone who has debated Sarah Palin several times:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1001/p09s01-coop….

By: NMP

NMP — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:27:07 +0000

Sarah Palin in past debates:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/01/why-sa...

She was good–at dressing up bullshit. Given the format that the Obama Team capitulated to, it works to her advantage.

By: NMP

NMP — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:19:00 +0000

Admiral? How about cowardly? They've been bitched slapped by the McCain Campaign, so they are afraid to state the obvious.

By: NMP

NMP — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:17:29 +0000

With all due respect, please help understand why a speech impressed you? She did NOT write the speech. She only delivered it from a teleprompter. She's a former sports reporter, so she has experience reading from a teleprompter. Is that how low the bar is for the presidency is that all you have to do is read well someone else's words?

By: NMP

NMP — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:15:17 +0000

Rebecca Traister has a piece up on Salon where she takes on those journalists and bloggers who have expressed sympathy for Palin, notably Ta-Nehisi Coates at the Atlantic. The question I posed to Ta-Nehisi is if s/he would have felt similar sympathy for Condaleeza Rice if she had proven to be an idiot? We know the answer. Black folks and white folks alike would have skewered her. Let's not pretend race is not a factor in the media's soft treatment of Palin. The white damsel distress routine still works.

By: NMP

NMP — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:09:23 +0000

White mediocrity has ruled this country for the last 30 years, with the exception of the Clinton administration. And he had to pretend to be a grit to get elected, hiding the fact he was a Rhodes Scholar. Face it, we are the only developed country on Earth where mediocrity is a quality for public office. But within the next decade when the dominance of China becomes undeniable, they'll regret it.

By: NMP

NMP — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:03:54 +0000

I fear that we've walked into that trap AGAIN. As with the announcement of her selection, we've helped lower the bar so much that when she delivered a pre-written speech from a teleprompter, she was declared the next Ronald Reagan. Now with all of the criticism of her interviews with Couric, all she has to do is string together a few coherent sentences, and she'll be declared the winner and fit for office.

Steve Schmidt is wickedly genius in this respect, and we continue to fall for the trap.