Palin: Couric questions "kind of irrelevant, you know," so "I showed some of that annoyance"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

October 26, 2008
Palin "annoyed" with CBS interviewer
Posted: 12:23 PM ET



From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby
Palin said Saturday she was 'annoyed' with Couric after her interview.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/26/palin-annoyed-with-cbs-interviewer/

FORT WAYNE, Indiana (CNN) – Campaigning Saturday in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a city once represented in Congress by another vice presidential candidate named Dan Quayle, Sarah Palin delivered one of her longest stump speeches to date and revealed that she was “annoyed” with the line of questioning presented by Katie Couric in her now-infamous interview with CBS.

Palin reprised a story she last told a week ago in Noblesville, Indiana about her sit-down with Couric, which was widely panned.

“Last time I was here I got to tell a crowd that I had to give a national interview that didn’t go so well,” she said. “And it was because I was kind of annoyed with the questions that I was being asked because I thought they were kind of irrelevant to, you know, national security issues and getting our economy back on track, so I kind of showed some of that annoyance.”

Couric did, in fact, ask Palin several questions about the economy and national security, focusing in particular on the congressional bailout package, the mortgage crisis, John McCain’s record on regulation, the war in Afghanistan, hunting terrorists in Pakistan, Russia, Iran, Syria, Israel and the role of the United States in the world.

Palin joked, however, about another line of questioning.

“But I think the one question that I answered that everyone could agree on, it maybe shows where my heart is… too is, she asked me this relevant question: What was my favorite movie? And I said ‘Hoosiers!’”

The governor continued to press the campaign’s message of the day: that Barack Obama and congressional Democrats will, if elected, expand government and redistribute the hard-earned dollars of regular Americans, criticisms that brought on accusatory shouts of “socialist!,” “Communist!” and, at one point, “Hussein the socialist!”

Palin said that on election day, “what we're going to have to do together, voters, what we have to do is fight for what is right and free and uniquely American. Let us put our trust in each other, not big government.”

The Indiana crowd — easily Palin’s largest of the day — was warmed up by country legend Hank Williams, Jr., who often appears at Palin campaign events to perform his recently-penned ode to the GOP ticket: “McCain-Palin tradition.”

But Williams may have been channeling the enthusiasm of the crowds for Palin — and also reflecting recent reports that Palin is “going rogue” with an eye toward the 2012 presidential race. At one point during his performance, he intentionally scrambled the song’s lyrics and put the Alaskan at the top of the ticket, praising a “Palin-McCain tradition.”

That musical witticism earned Williams a loud cheer from the crowd.

[seabeyond]

1. couric annoyed me, so i made myself look like a fool. WTF. n/t

[Mist]

12. You betcha! That'll show'em! Plus, "Hoosiers" wouldn't make most movie fans'

top 100. It's not a bad movie, just not great.

[seabeyond]

13. you betcha... bah hahhaha. i have gone about a week without hearing, you betcha, doggonnit.

i had almost forgotten it. lol

[kikiek]

2. Palin lies without any worry that she is going to be confronted about them. When will someone do

that? She is a carbon cut out of Bush. She lies about not being a Washington insider too. Did you catch the New Yorker article?
Another lie that she effortlessly tells. Be afraid of this one people!

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/27/081027fa_fact_mayer

Palin’s sudden rise to prominence, however, owes more to members of the Washington élite than her rhetoric has suggested. Paulette Simpson, the head of the Alaska Federation of Republican Women, who has known Palin since 2002, said, “From the beginning, she’s been underestimated. She’s very smart. She’s ambitious.” John Bitney, a top policy adviser on Palin’s 2006 gubernatorial campaign, said, “Sarah’s very conscientious about crafting the story of Sarah. She’s all about the hockey mom and Mrs. Palin Goes to Washington—the anti-politician politician.”


During her gubernatorial campaign, Bitney said, he began predicting to Palin that she would make the short list of Republican Vice-Presidential prospects. “She had the biography, I told her, to be a contender,” he recalled. At first, Palin only laughed. But within a few months of being sworn in she and others in her circle noticed that a blogger named Adam Brickley had started a movement to draft her as Vice-President. Palin also learned that a number of prominent conservative pundits would soon be passing through Juneau, on cruises sponsored by right-leaning political magazines. She invited these insiders to the governor’s mansion, and even led some of them on a helicopter tour.


Only fools believe her crap.

[phusion]

3. these people are surreal...

“But I think the one question that I answered that everyone could agree on, it maybe shows where my heart is… too is, she asked me this relevant question: What was my favorite movie? And I said ‘Hoosiers!’”


:crazy: :crazy:

[nyhuskyfan]

4. Her answer to the economic crisis was gibberish

That was the one that Fey used verbatim.

The Supreme Court question is pretty important to get a sense of how a potential candidate for the highest office in the land might view controversial issues. Or merely to find out if they are aware of any. The question abour Cheney was also relevant to get a sense for how the candidates would evaluate the performance of the person they are going to replace.

If you want to say the newspapers question annoyed you, so be it. But let's not re-write history. We can all go back and look at the tape again. Again and again and again.

[mitchum]

5. She is a clueless uninformed nattering twit

[grytpype]

6. See, she's not stupid, she's annoyed.

Annoyed and stupid are hard to tell apart sometimes.

[NanceGreggs]

7. Yeah, I know what she means ...

I once flunked a biology exam. The fact that I didn't know any of the answers was beside the point - I just found the questions to be insufferably annoying.

[BlueIdaho]

8. 9 days to irrelevance.

In 9 short days - Palin could become the VP - or an embarrassing footnote in American history. Ask yourself what you can do each of these last 9 critical days to send her back to Alaska - permanently.

[jsmirman]

9. Yes, your gibberish answer about getting the economy back on track

showed the irrelevance of a question on getting the economy back on track.

What the fuck are you talking about???

[wileedog]

10. The fact that she considers proximity to Russia as

foreign policy credentials is pretty damn relevant in my book, you betchya.

[Occam Bandage]

11. Irrelevant: Foreign affairs, the econonmy. Relevant: Favorite movies!

[Versailles]

14. She needs to watch Biden...

In that interview with the lady in Florida, Biden showed how you deal with being annoyed by the question. You lay the smack-down with logical and concise answer while making your displeasure know.

[ObamaBinMama]

17. The gift that keeps on giving

The best thing about Palin reminding the electorate that she
was "annoyed" by Couric is that it brings the
interviews back into the news cycle the last week of the
election. For those of us who hadn't looked at the Couric
interviews since they first aired, we can all go back and be
reminded of how ineptly she performed.  As Versailles points
out, we can juxtapose the way Palin handled her annoyance
(non-answers) with the way Biden handled his annoyance
(answers).  Palin's comments about her wardrobe yesterday kept
that story alive another day too!  McCain/Palin are now
campaigning on three fronts:  their link to the Bush
administration, the Democratic Party, and the Media.   

[Phx_Dem]

15. No, Sarah. You didn't show any annoyance. You showed IGNORANCE.

In fact, you're so ignorant that you think the rest of us don't know the difference between annoyance and ignorance. People weren't laughing at your ass because you were "annoyed with Katie," they were laughing at you because you looked STUPID and dangerously uniformed. Huge diff.

Your running mate is the one who is always annoyed. You're the stupid one.

[Sewsojm]

16. I don't like Katie Couric but,

I hope she takes the time this coming week to address Caribou Barbie about those annoying questions and give Sarah a wink and a you betcha too!

[TheCoxwain]

18. Standard Operating Procedure for the GOP .."If you dont like the message kill the messenger"

nt.