Pitbull with Lipstick on Short Leash
Sep. 8th, 2008 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webfarmerThis first headline provided my laugh of the day from her Highness of Mooseville. I guess FauxNews and People magazine may be as tough as it gets for the defenseless "pitbull" of Wassila. Even after putting her on a tight leash she still managed to mung things with a clueless financial system comment.
Palin Media Avoidance Watch: Day 9 -- McCain Camp Says She Won't Do Interviews Until It Knows She'll Be Treated with "Deference" - ABC News - 07 Sep 08
"So when will she subject herself to questions? 'When we think it's time and when she feels comfortable doing it,' Davis said, praising a Fox News Channel profile of Palin that ran last night.
Why is she scared of answering questions? Wallace asked. 'She's not scared to answer questions,' Davis said, 'but you know what? We run our campaign not the news media.'
Wallace said inappropriate intrusions into Palin's family and personal life aside, there are legitimate questions about whether she is prepared to be vice president. 'Sarah Palin will have the opportinity to speak to the American people,' Davis said. 'She will do interviews, but she'll do them on the terms and conditions" the campaign decides.'"
In spite of keeping her in the media deep freezer to keep her freshness, she still got off the shelf and provided a howler on the current Freddie Mac and Fannie May story.
Palin Makes Her First Gaffe - Huffington Post - 08 Sep 08
"Speaking before voters in Colorado Springs, the Republican vice presidential nominee claimed that lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had 'gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers.' The companies, as McClatchy reported, 'aren't taxpayer funded but operate as private companies. The takeover may result in a taxpayer bailout during reorganization.'
Economists and analysts pounced on the misstatement, which came before the government had spent funds bailing the two entities out, saying it demonstrated a lack of understanding about one of the key economic issues likely to face the next administration.
'You would like to think that someone who is going to be vice president and conceivable president would know what Fannie and Freddie do,' said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. 'These are huge institutions and they are absolutely central to our country's mortgage debt. To not have a clue what they do doesn't speak well for her, I'd say.'"
"Even conservative analysts acknowledged that the statement simply did not hold true."
Palin Media Avoidance Watch: Day 9 -- McCain Camp Says She Won't Do Interviews Until It Knows She'll Be Treated with "Deference" - ABC News - 07 Sep 08
"So when will she subject herself to questions? 'When we think it's time and when she feels comfortable doing it,' Davis said, praising a Fox News Channel profile of Palin that ran last night.
Why is she scared of answering questions? Wallace asked. 'She's not scared to answer questions,' Davis said, 'but you know what? We run our campaign not the news media.'
Wallace said inappropriate intrusions into Palin's family and personal life aside, there are legitimate questions about whether she is prepared to be vice president. 'Sarah Palin will have the opportinity to speak to the American people,' Davis said. 'She will do interviews, but she'll do them on the terms and conditions" the campaign decides.'"
In spite of keeping her in the media deep freezer to keep her freshness, she still got off the shelf and provided a howler on the current Freddie Mac and Fannie May story.
Palin Makes Her First Gaffe - Huffington Post - 08 Sep 08
"Speaking before voters in Colorado Springs, the Republican vice presidential nominee claimed that lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had 'gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers.' The companies, as McClatchy reported, 'aren't taxpayer funded but operate as private companies. The takeover may result in a taxpayer bailout during reorganization.'
Economists and analysts pounced on the misstatement, which came before the government had spent funds bailing the two entities out, saying it demonstrated a lack of understanding about one of the key economic issues likely to face the next administration.
'You would like to think that someone who is going to be vice president and conceivable president would know what Fannie and Freddie do,' said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. 'These are huge institutions and they are absolutely central to our country's mortgage debt. To not have a clue what they do doesn't speak well for her, I'd say.'"
"Even conservative analysts acknowledged that the statement simply did not hold true."
