Palin Suggests Interviewers are Journalistically Unethical and Have Problem with "Joe Sixpack"

[maddezmom]

October 01, 2008 8:05 AM

I suppose this is one of the questions conservatives take issue with: Katie Couric asking Gov. Sarah Palin what printed periodicals have helped shape her worldview.

The Wall Street Journal? Dexter Filkins in the Times? Foreign Affairs? The Economist? The National Review? The Weekly Standard?


~snip~

Calling into Hugh Hewitt (listen HERE), Palin said that the media is "just not used to someone coming in from the outside saying, 'You know what? It's time that normal Joe Sixpack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency,' and I think that that's kind of taken some people off guard, and they're out of sorts, and they're ticked off about it."

Hewitt said that the interviews by Couric and ABC News' Charlie Gibson "struck many as sort of pop quizzes designed to embarrass you as opposed to interviews."

"Well, I have a degree in journalism also," Palin said, "so it surprises me that so much has changed since I received my education in journalistic ethics all those years ago. But I'm not going to pick a fight with those who buy ink by the barrelful. I'm going to take those shots and those pop quizzes and just say that's okay, those are good testing grounds. And they can continue on in that mode. That's good. That makes somebody work even harder. It makes somebody be even clearer and more articulate in their positions. So really I don't fight it. I invite it."

more:http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/palin-suggests.html

[medicswife]

1. She makes no sense at all even when she is sort of coherent. nt

[TornadoTN]

3. Isn't that the truth! She honestly gives me a headache trying to decipher any meaning

I've given up trying to decode her empty moon speak. There's no point, because there is nothing there to begin with. It's painfully obvious that she's way in over her head and the only thing they have left is to try to say she's an "everyman".

[H2O Man]

2. Black-and-white thinking.

Those journalists who are nice to her are good. Those who are objective are bad.

[Madam Mossfern]

4. Looks like she flunked her pop quiz.

I guess she thinks her term in office will be an open book test....and she's allowed to peek at her neighbor's paper.

[zbdent]

23. odd ... coming from the fact that she reads ALL OF THEM - the newspapers

and magazines ... that's what she told Katie ... that Alaska is not a remote, foreign land ...

[meow2u3]

5. This just in: Sarah Palin thinks she's a man

She calls herself "Joe Sixpack" :shrug: I thought only men could be called Joe Sixpack. Wouldn't that make her Jane Sixpack?

[Clio the Leo]

6. Wow! I'd forgotten about her degree........

.... that makes her perfomances the past week all the more mind blowing. Wow.

[SIMPLYB1980]

7. It's not journalism that is against you Sarah it's the American people.

You're getting called on your bullshit because after 8 years of Shrub most Americans are seeing right through your lies and distortions to see you as the idiot and functioning "Moran" that you are.

[Demit]

8. The Vice-presidency is an award you get for being average?

So that would make the Presidency what, a bigger award for being even more average?

Keep it up, Sarah. The snotty attitude towards everyone—including 'Joe Sixpack'—is not going to go over at all well with (minus your fellow religious wackos) the general populace. Holy Mother of God, this woman makes me appreciate Katie Couric! I have NOT been giving Katie Couric enough credit!!

[Mike Daniels]

19. Anytime I see/hear someone on TV saying they'll vote for Palin because "she's like me."...

I want the interviewer to ask that person...Do you think you personally should be one step away from the White House?

I expect more than a few would say "yeah" with not even a pause (much like Palin says she responded) but I'd like to think a majority would think that it's a bit beyond their reach/abililities and rethink their support for Palin as a result.

[ogneopasno]

9. I find it offensive that they think Joe Sixpack is a dumbass and wants a dumbass for president.

It's possible to hunt, fish, work for a wage AND give a shit about foreign policy. So fuck those who say a dumbass is what Joe Sixpack wants.

[InNeedOfUserName]

10. She's laying ground work to attack Gwen Ifill.???

Why else talk/use the term ethics??

[nyc 4 Biden]

11. wha??

"...it surprises me that so much has changed since I received my education in journalistic ethics all those years ago. But I'm not going to pick a fight..."

What the hell are you doing then? She seriously only talks in cliches.

By the way does anyone have her higher education record handy? By that I mean how many schools, how long, majors.

[Frank Cannon]

15. Her higher education matters not to me

It's her proud, willful ignorance and complete lack of common sense that chills my blood.

[VWolf]

17. AFAIK, she went to SIX universities

Finally graduated with a BS in journalism from U of Idaho, and got a D in macroeconomics.

BTW, it's harder to get a D in macro than it is to get an A.

[nyc 4 Biden]

20. Thanks. Haven't seen much written on the subject. n/t

[faithfulcitizen]

12. She called Katie Couric unethical for saying "could you explain what you meant by that?"

ooh, Katie and her trick questions....

[Marrah_G]

13. Holy crap....I don't WANT joe 6 pack in the WH.....I want our best and brightest....

[bullwinkle428]

14. NO. It will NEVER be fucking time for Joe Sixpack to ever hold the Vice Presidency!!!

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[ClarkUSA]

16. "Joe and Jane Sixpack" does not make $250K a year, own 5 homes, 1 plane, etc.

When is an interviewer going to call her on this BS?

[blogslut]

18. Ms. Thang was a sports reporter

And she lasted less than a year.

Oh, yeah. She;s totally a "journalist".

[Zuiderelle]

21. Wow, what an ass she is... "so much has changed" as in... Journalism is now unethical?

That should play well with, um.... journalists. Twit.

[1corona4u]

22. Joe Sixpack?

WTF is that? Like we all sit around drinking cheap beer or something? That really is an insult to all of us.