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She then aimed to defend herself for some of the criticism she got for the Couric interview. She was blasted for not answering Couric’s question on any of the periodicals she reads or even a Supreme Court decision that she disagreed with. She defended some of the circular answers she gave the CBS anchor saying that she did not get to cover some of the topics she saw as important, “But in those Katie Couric interviews I did feel that there were a lot of things that she was missing in terms of an opportunity to ask what a V.P. candidate stands for. What the values are represented in our ticket. I wanted to talk about Barack Obama increasing taxes, which would lead to killing jobs. I wanted to talk about his proposal to increase government spending by another trillion dollars.”
She then slammed Barack Obama calling him disqualified to be President of the United States, “Some of his comments that he has made about the war that I think may — in my world– disqualifies someone from consideration as the next commander in chief.” Palin said, “Some of his comments about Afghanistan and what we are doing there supposedly– just air raiding villages and killing civilians. That’s reckless. So I wanted to talk about things like that. So I guess I have to apologize about being a little annoyed, but that is also an indication of being outside that Washington elite and being outside the media elite also and just wanting to talk and just wanting to talk to Americans without the filter and let them know what we stand for.”
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Imagine that, she wanted to talk about issues, silly her.


The looney lefties don't want to give her views on the issues any exposure, they don't want her to talk about her oppostion, especially their protected chosen one, they want to play 5th grade gotcha politics.


And their 5th grade flock just "can't get enough, of that funky stuff"


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If she had done more than just one interview....she could probably get to answer anything she wanted.
 

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If she had done more than just one interview....she could probably get to answer anything she wanted.

... and she could keep doing more with the rule that ONLY policy questions be asked.

Like I said, there are REASONS and there are EXCUSES.
 

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what newspaper do you read?

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and there are politics for the 5th grade mind
 

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what newspaper do you read?

Forget the motive ... maybe Couric is out for gotcha politics ... but

1) not being able to answer the question is mind-boggling.

2) putting Palin in a position like that is retarded on the part of the McCain campaign.

PS: You seem to be out grieiving these days, Willie ... almost all of your threads are bitchy/moany/crybaby threads ... look down the list and you'll notice. LEARN TO LAUGH A LITTLE .. and no, just inserting a little puppy won't do.
 

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Forget the motive ... maybe Couric is out for gotcha politics ... but

1) not being able to answer the question is mind-boggling.

2) putting Palin in a position like that is retarded on the part of the McCain campaign.

PS: You seem to be out grieiving these days, Willie ... almost all of your threads are bitchy/moany/crybaby threads ... look down the list and you'll notice. LEARN TO LAUGH A LITTLE .. and no, just inserting a little puppy won't do.

why are you talking about sarah palin? she does not matter! blah blah blah blah...

seriously what is next, you want to have a thread about what tina fey says tonight?


seriously, you hear how stupid that sounds?

anyway the post i quoted was excellent. almost like you let some idiot republican post for you in the other thread.
 

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Cincy, I'm going on the offensive here, that's not the same as bitching, eh?

I truly believe the attacks against Palin are lame, and they are a great example of how dumb downed politics have become.

I believe the edited version of the interview can only be appreciated by idiots.

If you watch CBS's edited version of the debate, you see Joe Biden's two best moments and Sarah Palin's two worst moments. They are pathetic.

You are interviewing a VP candidate, where are the questions about policy?

Cute Katie is the laughing stock.
 

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Cincy, I'm going on the offensive here, that's not the same as bitching, eh?

I truly believe the attacks against Palin are lame, and they are a great example of how dumb downed politics have become.

I believe the edited version of the interview can only be appreciated by idiots.

If you watch CBS's edited version of the debate, you see Joe Biden's two best moments and Sarah Palin's two worst moments. They are pathetic.

You are interviewing a VP candidate, where are the questions about policy?

Cute Katie is the laughing stock.

I understand ... but who is arguing on behalf of Couric here?

The McCain campaign sheltered Palin for a month ... and when they expose her, they let Couric follow her around all day, ask her questions while walking and then show edited excerpts? How moronic is that?

This is what happened ... they were so pissed at NBC (and Olberman and SNL) that they let ABC, Fox and CBS have access to Palin .. and they shut out NBC ...

So they agreed to the format and conditions because their objective was to send NBC a message. Is that what one does when you're running a campaign?

That is how dumb they are ... it's just fucking stupid.
 

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why are you talking about sarah palin? she does not matter! blah blah blah blah...

seriously what is next, you want to have a thread about what tina fey says tonight?

seriously, you hear how stupid that sounds?

anyway the post i quoted was excellent. almost like you let some idiot republican post for you in the other thread.

... yeah whatever ... shoooo
 

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I understand ... but who is arguing on behalf of Couric here?

The McCain campaign sheltered Palin for a month ... and when they expose her, they let Couric follow her around all day, ask her questions while walking and then show edited excerpts? How moronic is that?

This is what happened ... they were so pissed at NBC (and Olberman and SNL) that they let ABC, Fox and CBS have access to Palin .. and they shut out NBC ...

So they agreed to the format and conditions because their objective was to send NBC a message. Is that what one does when you're running a campaign?


That is how dumb they are ... it's just fucking stupid.

now this I can concur with, they are fucking stupid
 

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/03/debate.words/?iref=mpstoryview

(CNN) -- An analysis carried out by a language monitoring service said Friday that Gov. Sarah Palin spoke at a more than ninth-grade level and Sen. Joseph Biden spoke at a nearly eighth-grade level in Thursday night's debate between the vice presidential candidates.

The analysis by the Austin, Texas-based Global Language Monitor said Palin, governor of Alaska and the GOP vice presidential nominee, used the passive voice in 8 percent of her sentences, far more than the 5 percent used by the Democratic senator from Delaware.

The analysis noted that the "passive voice can be used to deflect responsibility; Biden used active voice when referring to [Vice President Dick] Cheney and [President] Bush; Palin countered with passive deflections."

"It obscures the doer of the action," said Language Monitor President Paul Payack, an independent with no political affiliation.

The two candidates were nearly even in total number of words spoken. The normally voluble Biden restrained his tendency to ramble by uttering just 5,492 words during the 90-minute debate, versus 5,235 for Palin, Payack said.

In last week's debate between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, Obama spoke 8,068 words during the 90-minute event, while McCain spoke 7,150, Payack said.

Thursday night's debate between the vice presidential candidates "was more collegial, thinking out loud as opposed to just hammering points," Payack said in trying to explain the difference. "It was a much calmer style."

His analysis ranked the candidates' speech on several other levels, too. Here's the breakdown:

Grade level: Biden, 7.8; Palin, 9.5 (Newspapers are typically written to a sixth-grade reading level.)

Sentences per paragraph: statistically tied at 2.7 for Biden and 2.6 for Palin.

Letters per word: tied at 4.4.

Ease of reading: Biden, 66.7 (with 100 being the easiest to read or hear), versus 62.4 for Palin.

The analysis said Abraham Lincoln spoke at an 11th-grade level during his seven debates in 1858 against incumbent Stephen A. Douglas in their race for a Senate seat from Illinois.

But higher grade level doesn't necessarily mean better sentence, Payack said. He pointed to Palin's second-to-last sentence in the debate, which the formula put at a grade level of 18.3:

"What I would do, also, if that were ever to happen, though, is to continue the good work he is so committed to of putting government back on the side of the people and get rid of the greed and corruption on Wall Street and in Washington," Palin said.

"When she said it, it sounded good, but on paper it's a completely different animal," Payack said. "It's like, what is that?"

But Biden had his own challenging moments, such as this 32-word gem, rated grade 15.6: "The middle class under John McCain's tax proposal, 100 million families, middle-class families, households to be precise, they got not a single change; they got not a single break in taxes."

Payack praised the usually longer-winded Biden for showing restraint here. "In a typical Joe Biden thing, this sentence would serve as a launching point to even more complex and convoluted statements. Last night, he was particularly reserved, and you only had to be a college graduate to decipher it, according to the readability statistics."
 

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(CNN) -- An analysis carried out by a language monitoring service said Friday that Gov. Sarah Palin spoke at a more than ninth-grade level and Sen. Joseph Biden spoke at a nearly eighth-grade level in Thursday night's debate between the vice presidential candidates.

The analysis by the Austin, Texas-based Global Language Monitor said Palin, governor of Alaska and the GOP vice presidential nominee, used the passive voice in 8 percent of her sentences, far more than the 5 percent used by the Democratic senator from Delaware.

The analysis noted that the "passive voice can be used to deflect responsibility; Biden used active voice when referring to [Vice President Dick] Cheney and [President] Bush; Palin countered with passive deflections."

"It obscures the doer of the action," said Language Monitor President Paul Payack, an independent with no political affiliation.

The two candidates were nearly even in total number of words spoken. The normally voluble Biden restrained his tendency to ramble by uttering just 5,492 words during the 90-minute debate, versus 5,235 for Palin, Payack said.

In last week's debate between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, Obama spoke 8,068 words during the 90-minute event, while McCain spoke 7,150, Payack said.

Thursday night's debate between the vice presidential candidates "was more collegial, thinking out loud as opposed to just hammering points," Payack said in trying to explain the difference. "It was a much calmer style."

His analysis ranked the candidates' speech on several other levels, too. Here's the breakdown:

Grade level: Biden, 7.8; Palin, 9.5 (Newspapers are typically written to a sixth-grade reading level.)

Sentences per paragraph: statistically tied at 2.7 for Biden and 2.6 for Palin.

Letters per word: tied at 4.4.

Ease of reading: Biden, 66.7 (with 100 being the easiest to read or hear), versus 62.4 for Palin.

The analysis said Abraham Lincoln spoke at an 11th-grade level during his seven debates in 1858 against incumbent Stephen A. Douglas in their race for a Senate seat from Illinois.

But higher grade level doesn't necessarily mean better sentence, Payack said. He pointed to Palin's second-to-last sentence in the debate, which the formula put at a grade level of 18.3:

"What I would do, also, if that were ever to happen, though, is to continue the good work he is so committed to of putting government back on the side of the people and get rid of the greed and corruption on Wall Street and in Washington," Palin said.

"When she said it, it sounded good, but on paper it's a completely different animal," Payack said. "It's like, what is that?"

But Biden had his own challenging moments, such as this 32-word gem, rated grade 15.6: "The middle class under John McCain's tax proposal, 100 million families, middle-class families, households to be precise, they got not a single change; they got not a single break in taxes."

Payack praised the usually longer-winded Biden for showing restraint here. "In a typical Joe Biden thing, this sentence would serve as a launching point to even more complex and convoluted statements. Last night, he was particularly reserved, and you only had to be a college graduate to decipher it, according to the readability statistics."

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Interesting stuff Buster, so Palin actually spoke at intellectually higher levels.
 

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9.5 > 7.8


the average newspaper a 6?

the average reporter a 1.1
 

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now this I can concur with, they are fucking stupid

Willie you are smarter than Palin.. Sad that you have to defend her and cant see through the mountains of Shit that comes out of her mouth... She is a puppet and you know it.

You betcha.. Joe six pack.
 

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Willie you are smarter than Palin.. Sad that you have to defend her and cant see through the mountains of Shit that comes out of her mouth... She is a puppet and you know it.

You betcha.. Joe six pack.

She said she read in the newspaper that the McCain campaign was pulling out of Michigan ...

Yup ... that's right ... she read it in the newspaper ... yup, that means nobody told her ... and nobody consulted with her ... and nobody asked her.
 

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