Posted By:
Al C.risafulli"Yet Joe Biden talks about FDR going on the television during the Depression and calming the country; except there was no TV then and Hoover was in the White House. And yet there is barely a mention in the mainstream press about this."
So much of this is based on the lenses with which we view the media - I'm pretty sure you know this, Jeff. From my standpoint that Biden clip was EVERYWHERE. They taught my son about it in Social Studies class, for cryin' out loud - really. I read about "Joe Biden the Gaffe Machine" for weeks.
The problem with Palin is that she has done precisely THREE interviews since receiving the nomination, and she has bungled each one of them in a massive, sloppy way. Aside from those interviews and her carefully-scripted speeches, the campaign has not permitted her to speak to the media. While Joe Biden the Gaffe Machine spends his weekends and weekday mornings answering questions on TV talk shows, his opponent is nowhere to be found. And despite the fact that she has only given three interviews, she has been completely unable to articulate a single point. One would think that a person of above-average intelligence who was asked to give just three interviews could anticipate some of the questions (most of them had been asked in the media repeatedly before the interview) and come prepared to answer those questions. If you're not, and you're running for PUBLIC office, you should prepare to be skewered by the media you're spurning.
I don't know if she's stupid or not - I don't know how anyone could. She's not allowed to talk to us.
-Al