Nancy FLuffernutter just accused Couric of "several gotcha questions"

[npincus]

on MSNBC. Whatta LOAD.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. "What newspapers do you read?" is a gotcha question?

:rofl:

[ErinBerin84]

2. they were questions that the average 7th grader could have answered.

[Johonny]

27. what newspapers do you read

this isn't hard stuff. This just makes her look dumber.

[Skinner]

3. Like "Name a newspaper that you read."

So unfair.

[vaberella]

21. What makes it even more so is the fact that she studied Journalism in college.

I don't get how you study Journalism and yet can't name ONE newspaper...anything. I'll take The Watchtower. I got so desperate I was taking the Gotham Gazette of Gotham City or the Daily Planet of Metropolis---> we could check later if there were real ones.

[tridim]

4. She also claimed only Constitutional experts know about all that elite Supreme Court stuff.

What a freaking dunce. She's just as dumb as Palin.

[gemlake]

14. Biden was asked the same questions

And yet had no trouble. So much for "gotcha" journalism.

[vaberella]

22. That's the shit that kills me. I saw when Couric did that interview and

he wasn't stumped at all...he was raw and in your face. The interview barely got any notice except when he said rich people should say more and he was bloody right.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

17. Who doesn't know Dredd Scott v. Sandford or Plessy v. Ferguson?

I thought everyone learned those in middle school?

[nxylas]

23. I didn't

But then, I wasn't born here.

[jberryhill]

33. Well, I hate to break this news to you...

But you just lost my vote for president of the United States. Looks like I'll have to vote for Obama/Biden instead.

Sorry, you'll just have to stick with whatever your talent is.

And I have every confidence that you are extremely good at something. Keep it up, even if it doesn't qualify you to be Vice President.

I'm not running for Vice President either.

Everyone running for Vice President - raise your hand! Hmmmm.... I only see two hands, so I'll focus on what THEY know.

[nxylas]

46. Sexist!

You wouldn't talk that way if I was a MILF.

[jberryhill]

50. grin....

That is the basic "Palin game"

If you criticize her, folks would think, "Well I don't read any newspapers or know any court decisions", and they think it is some sort of personal criticism of them.

But, hey, I'm not sexist. I thought you were a gay black man. I'm a homophobic racist.

[NotThisTime]

45. Why did she not know about Exxon V Baker when SHE put a press release out on it THIS year???

[jberryhill]

32. Good - Hey - how about we elect someone that nows "that elite Supreme Court stuff"

What is wrong with these people and their worship of ignorance?

[tridim]

43. For the record, that wasn't a quote but a paraphrase.

[babylonsister]

5. Isn't that hoffenpheffer? She's sorta in denial, isn't she. nt

[blogslut]

6. Here's how I would disarm Nancy

I would say:

"Nancy, you're more qualified to be Vice President than Sarah Palin. Why didn't John McCain choose you?"

Then watch her head exploed.

KILL EM' WITH KINDNESS - IT DRIVES THEM CRAZY!

[npincus]

12. lol- good one!

Palin made Couric seem presidential by comparison.

[jobycom]

7. Ask Bill Clinton about his sex life or Barack Obama about his pastor's religious views, but

for GOD'S SAKE don't ask Sarah Palin about her qualifications to be president!!!! :GRR:

Katie Couric, the hard-hitting political journalist... Why can't I say that without laughing?

[Cha]

41. Exactly! Or flag pins. If they wanted to ask palin Gotchas..

they'd ask about Troopergate or her Pastor! They better watch their whining or they'll really have something to whine about.

[medicswife]

8. Oh, OK, Nancy......definitely "gotcha" questions...more like

Gotcha on the run questions!!!!

Have fun digging yourselves out of the hole you let McSame dig you into!

[Alter Ego]

9. Fuck Republicans and their "gotcha" journalism.

You're in politics, you better be prepared for zingers in interviews.

[Supersedeas]

49. questions can be so annoying in a democracy

[Barack_America]

10. No Nancy, those were softballs.

And Palin whiffed at them.

[City Lights]

11. Nancy's just bitter that "stumping the candidate" was done with such ease!

:rofl:

[jberryhill]

51. That's because the candidate is as dumb as a stump

When they say "stump speech", they aren't kidding.

[Supersedeas]

13. Nancy the Manequin will also tell you that the moon is made of cheese if you pay here enough

[ErinBerin84]

15. it's really stunning that someone who has such a reputation for being a social conservative

was not able to name any other supreme court rulings that she disagreed with...stunning.

[npincus]

18. and agreed with the Constitution protecting the right to privacy

which is the heart of the pro-choice argument... I wonder if the Freepers noticed that?

[Kerrytravelers]

19. Even Shrub himself cited Dred Scott. You'd think she's know the Code Words.

:eyes: If this is what it takes to be qualified, I'd like to announce my candidacy right here on DU... :patriot:

[npincus]

20. My G-d, dumber than the Chimp? She has his confidence

and lack of self-awareness, that's for sure.

[vaberella]

16. And this is what pisses off Couric.

She was on board when people said the media was very sexist to women candidates in paticular to HRC. They thought she was safe, and she is extremely safe, I've never seen a woman able to throughout so many shitty questions. It sounded like a Pre-K school interview.

Anyway, Couric comes in tossing her shit questions---not one of which is "gotcha". Stumping question? One regulatory practice of your running mate--if you state trash back it up with facts. That's all she was asking. That wasn't gotcha that was just a normal follow-up question, lame facts about your running mate who's head of the ticket. Second, Rick Davis is your campaign manager, they should have prepped you on any questions like that. It was the no.1 news discussion point---not hard. If you didn't want to answer it, all you had to say was that "That is a matter that is important in the news yes, but is really between McCain and Davis." If Couric pressed on, you could say, "I thought this interview was about me and my positions, not the campaign manager's private life?" <---Or something like that.

Court case...just any court case. Exxon vs. Baker was in Alaska and she wrote a statement on it and yet nothing. Dear Lord. That's not gotcha, that's elementary social studies. There has been not one single "gotcha" question. That random one from the voter was one she had stated several times before. This is ludicrous and turning them further into the joke that they are.

[Ganja Ninja]

24. Name one supreme court decision other than Roe V Wade?

Good Lord that's a question you might get on 'Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader'. How could she not be able to answer that?
I'm waiting for someone to ask her, 'Who's buried in Grant's Tomb?'

[PCIntern]

25. Nancy: How long have you been a bulimic?

that's the standard question asked of patients who exhibit her signs in medical/dental offices.

[The Traveler]

26. Thus far, Palin has demonstrated

that she has less knowledge of national and world affairs thant the average well informed citizen. For crying out loud my 12 year old daughter knows the Bush Doctrine. Given the extremely low level of preparation, it is hard for any reasonable question regarding history or current affairs to not have the effect of "gotcha" journalism. "Gotcha journalism" has as its objective the creation of an appearance which is not representative of the person or situation.

In this case, however, the appearance created by the Couric interview ... the appearance of a profound ignorance of the issues and their context ... is not deceiving. The Couric interview merely re-inforced what we all saw during the Gibson interview. This woman is dangerously unprepared for the position to which she aspires. If Americans cannot sort that out, then it is unlikely that America will do well confronting the challenges of the 21st Century.

Trav

[RichGirl]

28. It's not only an easy question...but...

...it's an easy question to bullshit about. You could say "Wall Street Journal" even if you didn't read it.

[beac]

29. Nancy Pezoutanhour, dispensing more BS with each tip of her pointy chin:

[Bluenorthwest]

30. Palin was rude to Couric

Her response was crazy and rude. That whole diatribe about Alaska, as if Couric had said "Gee, do you guys get TV up there?" was insulting. Palin is a mean person. And when paniced she gets meaner.

[jberryhill]

31. Silly claim, even if true - Guess What: It's a GOTCHA! Job

I'm sick of eight years of:

"We weren't prepared for terrorist attack"

"We weren't prepared for a hurricane"

"We weren't prepared for economic crisis"

Memo to Republicans - No matter who is president, shit happens, and how you deal with what you "weren't prepared" for is more important that what you were, and should have been, prepared.

I have had enough of this attitude of showing up a day after the exam with a note from your mom, or arguing with the prof over your grade.

Life is unfair. The world is unfair. Screaming "it's not fair" is not a mechanism for addressing those facts. It is an observation, not a coping strategy.

[raventattoo]

34. That Nancy

is absolutely the BIGGEST load of CRAP ever. That fake f*ing smile makes it look like her face is ready to crack while lying, lying lying over and over again. IGNORE her. She will just make your blood pressure go up...and she is definitely not worth the foundation she cakes on every day.

[AlCzervik]

35. "What's your favorite color?" GOTCHA! "Do you like puppies?" GOTCHA!

"The Sun, rises in east and sets in the west?"

[npincus]

37. LOL... "What's your zodiac sign?"

GOTCHA! "Where was Grant buried?" GOTCHA!

:rofl:

[AlCzervik]

38. "How many fingers am i holding up?" GOTCHA!

[npincus]

39. "What's that letter between 'A' and 'C'?"

GOTCHA!

[kwassa]

36. It is a coordinated Republican attack with the same message: Blame the media!

This is a thought-out campaign going on here. Steve Schmidt's attack on the New York Times yesterday was pretty desperate, too. Michelle Malkin's attack on Gwen Ifill is part of the same campaign.

[Matariki]

40. The election process should be viewed like a job interview.

What sort of questions would you ask if you were hiring a CEO for your company?

People need to take the process much more seriously, starting with so-called journalists. We need to stop the idiotic 'who would you like to have a beer with' games.

[texas1928]

42. If they asked her, her stance on FISA she would probably have a seizure.

The only questions they could ask her are the simple one.

I bet she would flip flop on "what color is the sky?"

[Lance_Boyle]

48. "Oh, up here in Alaska we call it VISA,"

"and my balance is not yet up to the limit."

[ismnotwasm]

44. Oh, for Gods sake's

Gotcha my ass. She couldn't even bullshit a decent answer for what would be for anyone else softball questions. Newspapers? Magazines? Supreme court? I'm around her age, I'm not a politician, much less a Governor of a state and I can name a couple off the top of my head.

She could have pointed out how she opposes the Native Americans in her state having subsistence hunting and fishing rights in favor of commercial and sports hunting and fishing. I mean it's soooo cool that she can kill a goddam moose. What an asshole. Bet she can name the Alaskan court ruling slapping her silly ass down.

Probably thinks they should all go back where they came from--- Oops, wait a minute, Sarah...

[Supersedeas]

47. Get that Corp Media -- enough of the 'questions' -- all questions are 'gotcha'

What nerve -- to be concerned with what a VP candidate thinks in the first place.