Tammy Bruce interviews Sarah Palin

Here is a link to the podcast:

Special Podcast: The Sarah Palin Interview

An informal interview over the phone, it's just under 15 minutes long.
     

Is Peggy Noonan prophetic?

Have a look at this. K-Lo at NRO interviewed Peggy in November 2008. K-Lo asks Peggy what she thinks the aftermath of the election will be for the Republican Party. Peggy predicts. How accurate was she? You be the judge:

Grace Will Lead Me Home?
Looking toward the future — conservative and otherwise.

[...]
Lopez: I tend to think there will be a serious revisiting of our founding principles — both 1776 and 1955 (the year National Review was founded) — after this election, whatever happens. Agree or disagree?

Noonan: You may remember we first spoke of this last spring, in Rome? The first wave will be . . . well, it will be as ugly as the past month. Uglier, as those with some responsibility for the past seven years turn their finger not on themselves but on others. (I happen to think careerism has become an unseen force in much of the fighting. Conservatism didn’t used to be a career, it was a sailing against the wind, a pushing back against the age that is pushing you, and it was often lonely, individual, painful. It has been for me.) The second wave will be more important, a real surveying and rethinking. A going back to the texts, Burke to Kirk, but also a deeper attempt to apply conservative principles and insights to reality as it is on the ground. For it must be applied to the reality as it is on the ground, to the facts, or it will not be conservative. Burke respected reality so much his enemies said he worshiped a thing just because it was. So yes, there will be seminars and symposia, and activists will have epiphanies on the Amtrak Acela while delayed at Wilmington. But here’s the most important wave. What I have been reminding people in speeches lately is America is not made in Washington. America is made in America. So this is step three, and will happen concurrently and for a long time with step two: look to the states and the counties. Briefly: I don’t believe in political saviors — I don’t think life is as a rule that dramatic, clear cut, resolved, or necessarily heroic. But what is happening in the states, and who is leading in and rising in the states, is going to yield up the leaders of the future. The great story of the next few years, and maybe longer than a few, will be what is happening there, and what is happening in the American culture. The McCain-Palin moment will pass; America will continue. Conservatives have to stop looking to Washington, it cannot solve our lives. And it’s not a very conservative impulse, to always be looking at and to the federal establishment.


Lopez: When people have been reading you for years, they sometimes think they know you too well. And feel betrayed when you don’t say what they might. And think they can read your unspoken motives. Just to clear the air here, when you sit down at your computer to write a column, what are you thinking? What is your goal? Who are you seeking to please? [...]

Peggy has a lot of interesting things to say, about McCain, Palin, Reagan, about criticizing Bush; about conservatism as defined by her, and about who she writes for. And if she is prophetic, then her comment at the beginning of the interview, about the old lady in the wheelchair and the stairs... yikes.
     

Clip of Palin interview on ABC

Here's a short 3 minute clip from Thursday:



From Tammy Bruce:

Sarah's ABC Interview

And she did just fine. Remember my warning/standard to you: all Sarah needs to do is not completely truck up. She can get some things wrong, or be unclear on issues, whatever, and she'll be just fine. But frankly, other than in the edited-to-make Sarah-look-bad segments ABC has sent out, I think she did a fine job.

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Personally, I would have liked The Messiah to have been subjected to a Charlie Gibson-like Inquisition two weeks after he announced he was running for President. Come to think of it, has anyone yet to ask Barry how many countries he's traveled to (pre-World Tour), or what the Bush Doctrine means, or what relevance Alaska has when it come to Russia?

So, she did just fine and no matter what the campaigns say, it's our assessment as The Deciders that counts [...]

The clip above is about 3 minutes and 17 seconds long. Pat has a clip on his blog that is about 10 minutes long:

Sarah Palin: "Mr Charlie, don't tread on me!"

Both clips are choppy, heavily edited. It would be interesting to see the whole thing, and if it's any better. I didn't see that whole broadcast last night, and I suspect these clips were shortened for the internet.

Tonight is supposed to be more exclusive interviews by Gibson with Palin tonight on "World News" and "20/20," which will broadcast a one-hour special edition at 10 p.m. ET/ 9 p.m. CT.

I hope it won't be a bunch of heavily chopped and edited bits like these. That just makes you wonder what they cut out, especially when they cut Palin off in mid-sentence. We're going to watch or record the next segment tonight, I hope it's better.
     

The MSM Push for a Palin Interview - NOW

From Tammy Bruce:

ABC Gets First Palin Interview

Looks like it's going to be this week, with Charles Gibson. Agree with Tammy, good choice, for the reasons she stated. Tammy also said:

[...] I do find it amusing how quickly she was pounced on by the media for not giving an in-depth interview. What was it--one week? And how long did it take the Establishment Media to notice Barry had avoided them? About 18 months, and that only changed when Saturday Night Live made fun of them and Hillary called them on it. [...]

Exactly. It's just one of many reasons for my recent rant about the MSM. Double standards. There is too often seemingly no difference between the MSM and the DNC.